Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1907-01-18
EARTHQUAKE I'm JAMAICA.

SFE ! = =
Destroys Properly and Takes Hun
$40 I; + dreds Of Lives Z. !:
London, Jan 16t.- p. M
The following cable message has,
been received from; a press rep
resentative vino accompanied
Sir Alfred Jones and his party
to Jamaica. =: :}S: :. $ ss5s.s.=
st. Fires broke out tagain tonight.
The negroes are looting the rum
shops. At least 500 o rsons
have !. been killed. There are
weird and terrible q. scenes.
Forty-five invalid soldiers were
burned to death in the military
hospital. Several shocks were
felt to-day. 3 !. .4.$ H.: 3. &,..Es :; =:
), The. above dispatch is not
dated. 6 g. ' >$ }.s,: .: z.: s.>:
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. :166.
Kingston was overwhelmed by
an earthquake at $40 on Monday
afternoon. All the houses with
in a radius Of ten miles were in
jured and almost every house in
the city was DESTROYED. n
Fire broke out after the earth
quake and completed the work
| of destruction. ,f',% - z.J.% III
The business section Of King,
ston is a heap Of smoldering
ashes. Z: ..@..:.: ...= ~, +: :. s.. f.
| The killed number about four
hundred, and thousands were in
: jured. Il:
The churches, public Offices
and hotels are all gone, but there
\ were no fatalities at the Con-
stanr Spring hotel. S.ss1 4 VI. :
S Among the killed were Sir
james ferguson and prominent
merch chants and prot fessional men !.
. Boston, Jan. l6. The United
Fruit company III Il his city re-
I ceiVed a blegrana no 70 Jamaica
today stating that seva.al hun
|dred persons Il y e1e killed il,
I, Kingston The message follows:
4 & M ercantile section of Kings
j ton, including our Office, COM
3plete ly destroy yed by earthquake
and fire. Several hun dred kill
led, he 4 steamer Dewey will
sisaiil from this iis city for Jamaica
Itoday with a n1iseel ellaneous car.
h 10 Of Sc freiglI Iii. yrkle q bank and
II Constant ntine Springs hotel prac-
1ticall destroy ID. g. $s sss
The telegram was sent from
/ bland Bay, and was dated Jan.
!, =5 285.5I.
London, q al i. is. s The & con.
trad dictory and scant news from
N. amaica renders it difficult to- es.
\ Iti1nate the extent of the calan.
aAity caused by the earthq and
subsaqu uent nflagation. 81
3 Ruin and $desola tiorl are said te
Estretch for miles outside the city
Kings ton. The shocks VI err
3, fl from fifty to sixty q miles
away and one dispatch from the
temp orary cable station at Bull
,,sIbay says that not d single house
Il between there anG & lAingtson i
Isafe y.
d estimate Of the loss offs e | slliiffe
! from official sources has vel
I come through, but the camp hos
slpital seems to have been IN tht
j center DC the visit tion, as Ile
yyANless than fort negro soldiers
were killed there.
The distance betWeen tha
H fEbuild diings known to have beer
/. DESTROYED Isl taken to indicate
that the total loss ef e opert5
II Twill be great. 81.
H According to J the latest dis
/ atches slight earth shoe ks con
Il tinue to he felt at King 81 n
II The IN est India COMMITTEES o.
1.-THE adnliralty and the Spriyat,
concerns having ntarests III
Jamaica are taking all the steps
possible u to alleviate the distres!
In Kingston itsel
q s. d ssels 81