The Washington herald., 1907-01-20
JACKIES IN KINGSTON.
Marines Guarding Property and
Lives on Island.

/ Rear Admiral Evans. commanding the
/ Atlantic fleet. now at Guantanamo, yes
terday gave the government here its first
comprehensive dispatch concerning the
/ Kingston disaster. The message came by
wireless. being relayed UP the coast. The
State Department also received a dis
patch. the second it has had from Kings
ton since the disaster. The State Depart
ment's dispatch is supposed to have come
/ from Nicholas r. Snyder. the consul al
Port Antonio
The dispatch from Admiral Evans says
that $40 dead have been accounted for.
and that there are still many bodies in
the ruins. The advices say nothing about
the death Of Americans. and the State
/ Department Is informing ali inquirers
that il is believed that no Americans
were killed. The department has received
dozens Of calls for information from anx-
ious friends and relatives Of persons in
Jamaics.
Fifty bluejackets from the battle ship
Indiana have been landed in Kingston.
and are guarding the American consulate.
which. according to previous reports. was
destroyed. The consulate contains many
papers and documents of Importance.
which are believed to have been saved be
cause of the information which came to
the department last Wednesday that the
consulate had a fire2roof safe.
II is not believed that the landing OF
American bluejackets on British terri
tory will bring on any complications. as
Rear Admiral Davis, who was sent to
Kingston by Admiral Evans. must have
consulted with Gov. Swettenham before
issuing orders to land the sailors
Admiral Davis sent long dispatch to
Admiral Evans at Guantanamo by the
destroyer Whipple, which carried Admiral
Davis to Kingston The dispatch from
Admiral Evans is merely a synopsis of his
advices from Admiral Davis The full re-
port of Admiral Davis has been for
warded to Washington over Cuban tele-
grarn lines.
Admiral Evans dispatch follows:
'Whipple arrived from Kingston to-
day with advices from Davis concern
ing destruction of the citys Business
section destroyed. Fire followed earth
quake. Government residences. sub
Ur5s destroyed. Steamship wharves
intact Shipping unchanged. Cuban
consul killed. Other foreign residents
seem to have escaped. American con-
sui acting. Vice consul representing.
BluejaCkets guarding consular posses
siOns and securing archives Indiana
landed nifty Reported mutiny al peni-
tentiary containing 800 prisoners. Gov
ernor considers he holds situation well
in hand. Four hundred and forty dead
accounted for Still many bodies in
ruins. Many Americans sailed for New
York via steamer Prinz Friedrich
Heinrich on the 18th. Am sending full
extract Davis report over Cuban teIe-
graph
The dispatch to the State Department
was signed American consul, Port An
tonic. Nicholas r. Snyder is the consul
there: The dispatch said
Kingston destroyed by earthquake
and fire: deaths probably 1000 No
casualty Port Antonio; all Americans
safe; some property damaged here;
people terrified, business suspended
Have no information Kingston con-
sui
That part of the dispatch of Admiral
Evans reading 'the American consul act
ing, vice consul representing was in
terpreted by a State Department official
to mean American consul absent, vice
consul representing as the consul is not
ct present in Kingston.