The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-01-17
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Some graphic details OF the Kingston
disaster are given in one OF the latest
dispatches received here dated from Hol-
land Bay Jan Is This report SAYS that
The whole city OF Kingston seemed 10
shrivel UP, buildings fell In a crushed
mass like egg shells, under the first
shock Business streets We're we'll filed
with tourists engaged in shopping and
according TO this correspondent. no doubt
many OF them were buried in the debris,
Fire at three separate points followed
the crash. The fire department station
in Sutton street was wrecked, rendering
Il useless. The conhaRration continued
unchecked until Tuesday morning, 10y
which time the whole business quarter of
Kingstons had been wiped out. the dam
aged area comprising about a square mile
All the large warehouses i'm the lower part
% the city were consumed. while not
single house anywhere remained undam-
aged and the majority were unfit for
habitation. When the dispatch was filed
the bodies Of many white persons who had
been staying at the Myrtle Bank hotel
were still beneath the wreckage
POLICE ESTIMATE 1900 DEAD.
The police place the number OF Killed
NJ 1900 judging from tho number OF bodies
already discovered I'm the few buildings
which have been examined This esti-
mate. the correspondent adds is likely TO
search is made of the wrecked buildings.
The treasury. on Habor street, was
standing, but the postoffice and court
house were In ruins The government Of
fices were unsafe for occupancy. The
government house was badly damaged
The Colonial bank was burned out
the Nova Scotia bank was I'm ruins. as
was the residence OF Cen. Marshall Mrs
Marshall was dug out but slightly in
Jured.
The Roman Catholic cathedral. the
parish church and the Scotch. Wesleyan
and Baptist churches had disappeared
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 I'm tho harbor were transformed into
hospitals The deck OF the steamer
Port Kingston. which brought Sir Alfred
Jones and his party 10 Jamaica resem-
bled n shambles. The cabins were full
OF dead and dying. DR.. Evans. the ships
surgeon. was busy performing amputa
esons from 8 o'clock In the evening tin
O'Clock the next morning
HEAP OF sMOULDBRING ASHES.
While the colonial Office was unable up
20 2:30 this afternoon 10 give the official
figures Of the death roll and the extent
OF the destruction. yet many responsible
sources of Information concur in showing
the growing proportions Of the catastro-
phe.
Sir Alfred Jones despatch received
during the night saying that every house
in Kingston had been destroyed and that
the city was n heap of smouiderng ashes
has awakened the British public 20 tho
extent Of this blow 10 their favorte coll
ony. as Sir Alfred IL among the mnst
trustworthy hsures IN the commercial
world
Other DELAYED dispatches now altering
into business houses Eive lacunic details
81 the terrible situation AZ Kingston and
others add TO the vivid picture Of the
upheayal showing the appalling sudden
ness 81 the earthquake hotels. piers and
warehouse being instantly destroyed
while the y ople were engaged IN recrea-
lions or Were attending 10 business
CAPT YOUNG KILLED.
When Capt Young of the Royal Mail
steamer AEnn was killed. First Onicer
Mccauley assumed command lie steam
ed alongside the burning Royal Mail com
panys wharves ana fought the nrc All
night long. saving one of the piers. In
the meantime the decks of tho Arno had
become covered with injured persons.
who wer9 without doctor 10 relieve
their SifferinEs
ASHORE tho negro popula tion was ln an
Irdescribable state of panic
soon after the work ~ destruction had
begun tho people ~ Kingston began nee-
trs 10 the hills, ships and other places