Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-01-18
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FACE OF CONFEDERATION

London, Jan. 17.-Some grbphe de-
tails of the Kingston disasterIare giver
in one of the latest dispatches received
here, dated from Holland hay, Janu-
airy l5. According to this report, the
whole city of Kingston seemed to
shrivel up, buildings crashed together
and fell in a crushed mass under the
first shock. The business streets at the
time were well filled with tourists, and
according to this correspondent no
! doubt many of them were caught in
I the falling hrickwork and buried in
! the debris. Fire broke out immedi-
ately after the crash at three separate
! points. The fire department station
was wrecked rendering resistance to
the flames impossible. The conhagra-
tion continued unchecked until Tues
day morning by which time the whole
business quarter of Kingston had been
wiped out, the damage in the area
comprising about a square mile. All
the large warehouses in the lower part
OF the city were consumed and not a
single house anywhere remained un-
damaged, the majority being unfit for
habitation. When the dispatch was
filed the bodies of many persons who
had been stopping at the Myrtle Bank
hotel were still beneath the wreckage.
A conservative estimate of the cas-
ualties made by the police of King
1,200, judging from the number of
bodies already discovered in the few
buildings which have been examined. !
This estimate, the correspondent adds, |
is likely to be largely increased when |
a thorough search is made of the |
wrecked buildings.
The treasury on Harbor street was !
standing, but the postoffice and court !
house were in ruins. The government
offices were unsafe for occupation, the /
government house was badly damaged,
the Colonial bank was burned out, the I
Nova Scotia bank was a heap of ruins.
The Roman Catholic cathedral the
parish church and the Scotch, West
Ryan and Baptist chapels had disap-
peared and the theatre was destroyed. /
At Port Royal, at the entrance of
Kingston harbor, one of the batteries
sank and a gunner was killed.
The ships in the harbor were trans
formed into hospitals. The cabins of
he steamer Port Kingston were full
ships doctor was busy from five
o'clock in the evening to o'clock
he next morning.
When Captain Young of the Royal
Mail steamer Arno was killed First
officer McCauley assumed command
If the vessel and seeing the fire
preading ashore he steamed along
|
,any's wharves and there fought the
ire all night long and saved one of /
he piers. In the meantime the docks
# the Arno had become covered with
,urned and injured persons who were
aid to relieve their sufferings.
There had been a great exodus of peo-
lie from Kingston to the hill-tops,
hips and other places of safety. Many
thousands were camping in the open.
The entire city will have to be re-
uilt. one official estimate places the
Oss at $25,000,00
A number of assures in the earth
ave appeared. the street car tracks
re out of shape, the rails are twisted,
he water mains and the gas ana elec-
ric pipes and wires are I'm complete
isorder. while the destruction of ,
ne bonded warehouses fills the air
18th an overwhelming odor Of rum rum
The statue of the late queen VIZ
ria in the center of the city, was
sversed. by the earthquake but 1t is
therwise intact.