The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-23


one al all.
The negroes. however, cursed Ameri-
cans wherever they appeared after
they had recovered from their panic
The evil attitude on the part of thor
ough-going British was illustrated by
the gross acts OF Captain Parsons OF
the steamship Port Kingston, acting
directly under Sir Alfred Jones, the
owner of the vessel; Sir Ralph Moore,
Lord Morres and others.
AT the Constant Springs hotel, own
ed by the Elder Dempster company, or
the direct West India line. of which
Sir Alfred Jones is the chairman, and
many of his party of eighty are share
holders. his party was associated with
slightly larger number of Americans.
There had been nothing but the usual
distance and formality between the
two companies until the earthquake
happened. At once trifiing instances
Of the EngIishman looking out for him
self occurred.
Ordered 10 Clear Out.
Small beats of all sorts had been
delivering all afternoon and evening
wounded efugees-Jamaican Amerl-
cans, Germans etc.-aboard the Port
Kingston to be cared for. Or. Arthur
Evans OF the ship and a nurse, ae0m-
panying a woman of Sir Alfred Jones
party on the voyage out on the Port
Kingston a few days before, were DO
ing service that cannot be too highly
honored. On Monday night Sir Ralph
Moor obtained large number OF car
riases and appeared at the Constant
Spring to take the English refugees
aboard the ship, but the greater num-
her declined to so while the wounded
and refugees were aboard
"A number OF Americans were ask
ed to go in the carriages and accepted.
"The next day orders were issued at
noon on board the ship that everybody
on board must be on shore by o'clock
as she was to sail under sealed orders.
BY this time the women refugees knew
there was no place on shore to take
them that the blacks were fighting in
the streets for food, and many of the
men on shore were endeavoring to res
cue baggage or find missing friends.
The party aboard was mostly Of wo-
men and children, and these begged
and pleaded with Sir Ralph and Cap
tain Parsons to be allowed to remain
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means of caring for themselves.
HeartIess But Dignifed.
Among those who made personal
appeals were a Mrs. de Lisson, whose
husband was aboard. helpless. and she
left to care for the four small boys;
Mrs. Edward de Cordova and her fam
lily, her husband having been killed
on the streets; a Mrs. Troler. with two
little girls, one of them suffering with
pneumonia, and others.
! Emil A. b. Wtnkler< 81 Broadway
New York. and Adolf Harder, late pur-
ser of the Prinzessin Victoria Luise.
hearing of the order. hurried TO the
railway dock at which the Port Kings
ton lay and assembled the astounded
bewildered, ar Try refugees in the shade
of the Ham.urg- American dock
THE poor sufferers, many of them
delirius with fever. and many suffer
ing from internal injuries, which
should have precluded their removal
were carried ashore and laid in a Ions
row on the uneven, dirty planks OF
the railway shed, usually serving as
a banana wharf. A train was shunted
in and all that it could carry were
taken away to Spanish Town, where
the best accommodations for a lot OF
wounded people were very bad"
Praise for own Safety.
| Wednesday evenin. according to the
passengers. while they were still OF
the pier. the people on the Port Kings
ton with Sir Alfred Jones held a praise
service on deck. Hymns were suns
and fioated over the water to tn,
| Americans on the pier.
1T was queer TO hear them sounding
praise for their own selfish deliver
ance," said ]. x. Weisenthorn. a bank.
er of wilkesbarre. LAS we heard il s
good many of US mentally resolved
never to go near the place again. Tn,
tourist business is over. No American
will ever spend another dollar on tn,
island. I hope"
Mr.. weisenthorn's remarks seemed
to be echoed by the others. Many o,
the passengers arrived with no bag.
gage. Some had dressings still OF
their wounds. Mrs. Ada De LISA OF
$50 Prospect place, Brooklyn, had beer
visiting her sister. The sister and hel
husband We're killed in their house. bur
Mrs. De Lissa happened TO be In the
back yard and escaped.
i Swettenham's Joke.
Washington. D. c., Jan. 22.-England
has sent an apology which amount.
practically to a reputation of Swet
tenham. The peppery governor him
self under stress yielded up a tardy ex
preston of gratitude for Admira
/ Davis tender of help.
In an interview Swettenham say
that the most insulting point in hi
| letter was meant only as q "jocula
parallel