Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-01-17
Today's Telegraphic- News
TIDAL WAVE FOLLOWS EARTR-
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was no second condsgration.
Port Al Prince, Hsyti, Jan. 1.-THE
shores of the harbor of Kingston are
sinking and there is terror lest the city
slip into the sea, according TO private
despatch received BY large mercantile
house here, today The harbor floor is
said to be sinking and the water in many
places is now a hundred feet deep. Every
wharf, not destroyed by fire, is said to
have sunk into the sea or been rendered
worthless
London, Jan. IA gigantic tidal
wave has swept Anneta Bay on the
North Coast Of the Island of Jamaica,
according to a dispatch from Holland
Bay, just received by the Evening Stand
ard. 1t is reported that the entire coast
line has been changed, and that great
stretches of beach have sunken into the
seq.
Additional reports say that tidal
wave has hit the north coast Of Jamaica
and miles Of coast are reported to have
been submerged.
The floor Of the bay ut Kingston hAs
sunk, tho shore is crumbling and the
people are in terror lest the city clip into
the sea.
Continued shocks of slight force, but
sufficient to bring down tot.ering build
lngs, are felt
Many casualties among English and
Americans are now reported
Foreign residents face epidemic of
dysentery as the result of lack of proper
food ard inability to secure pure water.
Many victim believed 10 be suffering
living deaths we're pinned down in
debri9 of collapsed buildings.
The work of rescuing ia greatly ham
pcred by danger from falling walls.
The dead are being buried in unmark-
ed graves.
St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, Jan.
l7.--This morning places the list of dead
at Kingston at between 500 aud ! 900.
The injured will number more than
l 900. Property loss in Kingston alone
will exceed tl5 900, 600.
The new estimate of dead is based on
discoveries OF bodies 10 the ruins OF
wrecked buildings.
Thirty or forty persons were killed in
the collapse ofthe Myrtle Bank Hotel
Scores of persons are now believed to
have persisted aud their bodies been con
sumed by tho flames 1t is probable on
this account the full death list will never
be known.
Upwards of Thousand persons killed,
twice rs many injured, and ninety
thousand homeless, are the figures given
out today in an estimate made By United
States Consul Christopher Hayne.
When the sun rose on this, The third
day after the earthquake, it was TO wit
ness the most terrible scenes enacted
since the panic Immediately following
the shocks which brought buildings
crashing on the helpless occupants.
Everywhere the stre2ts are filed with
bodies Of men aud animals, which have
not been removed. The stencil from
these is becoming unbearable. Yet 1t
will be days before the evil can be eradi-
Gated.
Conditions outside of Kingston are as
bad as in the city. Practically every
building within radius Of ten miles
was rendered unsafe for habitatioD.
Thousands Of persons are sleeping in the
open air.
Famine has been added 10 The other
horrors. Provisions for both man and
beast are practically exhausted. The
vaults of the banks, with sill their con
tents, are believed to be safe, but money
is of no avail, because no shops remain
al which provisions can be purchased at
any price.
Kingston, vim Holland Bay, Jan. II
The United States government will prob
ably be called on today for aid for the
American victims Of the earthquake.
Every white tourist on the island is in
danger today, because Of the food
shortage. The natives will be able to
get along for few daya by eating fruits
and vegetable bat resort to this food by
whites will certainly result 10 peslllence.
Kingston, via. Holland Bay, Jan. II.
English and Americans did not all es-
cape Death aud injury in Mondays dis
aster, as at first reported. The known
dead include Captains Constantine and
Young of the Royal Mail Steamship
Company, Captain Lamont, who was
soon 10 wed an American girl DR..
Robertson and wife, Or. Gidd Bradley,
and p. Marley, q Mr.. Sherlock, and
Miss Lockett, aud Sir James Ferguson.
London, Jan. IA conservative es
innate OF the casualties in the recent
Kingston earthquake places the number
of dead st 900, according to dispatch |
received by the Evening Standard from
its correspondent at Kingston, sent froD
Holland Bay. The property loss, he
says, will reach $2j. 900, 900. 4