Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1907-01-24

EARTH STILL RUMBLES
Center Of the Violent Visitation Was
Under Camp Hospitai-Forty SOL
diers kilIed-England and
America Send Relief.

81. Thomas. ID. w. L.. Jam. 1s.-Re-
ports received here from jamaica say
II is estimated that 1000 persons have
been killed by the earthquake and fire
and that 10000 persons are homeless.
The damage to Kingston alone is
placed at fully $4,000 900.
Advices received from Jamaica midi
cake that all people have been warned
to keep away from Kingston. The
stencil is described AS awful.
Money is useless. The banks have
been burned. but the vaults are sup
posed 10 be safe.
The misery ON all sides is indescrib-
tble. Rich and poor alike are home
less. Provisions of all kinds are ~
gently needed.
Sir James FERGUSON. vice chairman
of the Royal Nail Steamship company.
is ainong the killed.
The dead ar. being buried under
smouldering ruins.
The mercantile community suffered
most severely. Warehouses falling on
them.
Many professional mel are dead or
injured.
hS X X VI w Iittsl
scenes are being Witnessed.
All the shops have been destroyed
and all the buildings in and around
Kingston are in ruins Very few of
them are safe TO live in.
The governor and his party are safe.
II is reported that an extinct volcano
IN the parish of Portland is showing
signs of activity. but this has not been
verified.
No news has yet been received from
I'D
Washington. ID. G.. Jan. lS.-Repeatel
earthquake shocks have wrecked the
mercantile section OF Kingston. ia
inaica, and 800 human lives were lost.
The death total is the minimum esti-
mate. A subsequent c~onfiagration
burned the best part of the remainder
OF the city. The United Fruit com
pany. at its Boston office. received the
following clblegram from amaica to-
day:
The mercantile section of Kingston,
including our office. has been com
1letely destroyed by earthquake and
ire. Several hundre were killed. The
Myrtle bank and the Constantine
Springs hotel are d~estroyei.' The tele-
gram was sent from Holland BAY.
dated Tuesday.
Kingston, Jamaica. Jan. iS-kingston
WIS overwhelmed by AN earthquake nj
$3.50 o'clock Monday afternoon. All
houses within a radius of ten miles
We're damaged and almost every house
IN the city destroyed. Fire broke out
after the earthquake and completed the
Work Of destruction. The business sec
ton OF Kingston is a heap of smolder-
ing ashes. The killed number 400 and
LOCO are injured. Churches. public of
no fatalities in the Constant Springs
hotel. Among the killed we're Sir
James Ferguson. the governor general.
and prominent merchants and profess
Sional men.
London. Jan. 1S.-The contradictory
sagcs received by various steamship
and cable however, indicate
while early reports of the destruction
OF Kingston with great loss of life were
Exaggerated. the disaster still was ter
rible.
Ruin and desolation stretch for miles
outside the city. The shocks were felt
from nifty to sixty miles away.
one dispatch from Il temporary cable
station AT Bull bay says not Il single
mouse there and Kingston is
safe. No estimate OF loss of life from
an official source has yet come through.
nut the camp hospital appears to have
been The center of visitation. as no less
than forty negro soldiers were killed
there.
The distance between the building
known to have been destroyed is taken
TO Indicate that the total loss of prop
crty will be great.
Crowded With Injured.
This telegram was sent by Governor
Swettenham. is undated. but presumed
la have been sem Monday:
There was an earthquake shock this
afternoon between 3 and 4 O'Clock. Ii
was followed by fire. which continues.
The camp hospital was destroyed and
forty men killed. The town hospital
and scant character of the news which
thus far has reached London from ia
fnaica renders 1t difficult TO estimate
The extent OF the calamity there. Mes
is crowded with 300 injured prisoners.
The Myrtle bank n hotel were de-
strOyed and also the cable Office.
The members of the Sir Alfred
Jones expedition are believed to be UNI
injured and are now at Port LIangston.
In the harbOr are numbers Of killed
and wounded. but the figures are not
yet ascertained. The shocks continue
The steamship and cable companies
here have received belated messages
dated Monday. via Holland bay. A
Packet company says:
Kingston In wrecked and most OF
the wharves and warehouses burned.
but our main wharf. sheds and coal
largo are safe. h Office WIS
wrecked"
Other dispatches from Kingston s.y
the Offices OF the Direct West India
Gable comnanG were wrecked.