Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-01-18
500 PEOPLE WERE KILLED
$4,000 Natives are Without
Homes and Food.
Thousands of Homeless People Are
Sleeping in the Streets, Their Prin-
cipal Food Being Bananas-Luna.
tic Asylum Destroyed and Han.
areds of inmates Escaped and
Are Roaming at Large-lf
Rain Sets In, Intense
Suffering Is Sure to
Follow Fall.

FOLLOW all.
New York, Jan 1.-THE shores OF
the harbor of Kingston are shaking
and there is terror lest the city slip
into the sea, according to a private
dispatch received by a large mercan-
tile house here Thursday from Port
Au Prince, Hayti The bed of the
harbor is said to be sinking, and the
water in many places is now 100 feet
deep. Every wharf not destroyed by
fire is said TO have sunk into the sea
or to have been rendered worthless.
London, Jan. IA great exodus
to the hills is reported as the peo-
pie feared a recurrence Of the tre-
mors. Medical supplies are the chief
need at present.
The work Of burying the dead was
begun instantly, the proceeding in a
tropical country being necessary Many
bodies have been buried without iden-
tification. Scores of bodies are still
in the ruins and from a sanitary view
point this causes alarm.
A later dispatch received here says
that 80 bodies have already been re-
covered 1t also reports the destruc-
ton of the insane asylum and says
that hundreds of lunatics escaped and
are roaming at large.
Thousands of homeless people, this
ell in, +ho
streets and parks, their principal food
being bananas. If rain should fall
the suffering is sure to be great.
Buffalo, N. Y, Jan. 17.-The Ex-
press Thursday morning publishes the
following:
This cable dispatch came through
Wednesday night from Francis U i.
Kahle, evidently from the temporary
cable station at Bull Bay, outside OF
Kingston. This dispatch no doubt
was filed before the dispatches of the
regular correspondents of the press
services who estimate a dead list of
much larger figure:
Jamaica, Jan 6.-Business is al
standstill. People sleeping in the
streets and parks. Five hundred
| surely dead. Sixty-five thousand are
homeless. Fruit only food. Troops
and police patroling town Country
houses completely destroyed. Hundred
and eighty dead buried in Catholic
burying ground, 13O yesterday.
Sir Alfred Jones says natives will
work their way to Panama and take
| the places of the cooIie labor of India
Want the Canadian architects to re-
build city Natives refuse to work
Estimate the loss to be $40, 900, =
900. Estimate a hundred dead white
people. Asylum destroyed; insane in
mates at large. Captain Young among
| dead, Halifax Colon cables are brok-
en-; immediate repairs impossible
Captain Constantine is dead. Charles
and Edward Decredva, J. w. Middle
town, Bradley Berti, Cahrles Sher-
lock and brother; Miss Locket Sulli-
van are among those injured.
Manager of cable says l 900 are
dead; Hennicker Heaton estimates
dead from 500 to 1 900.
Captain Lamont dead was engag-
ed to an American girl Streets fill
ed with dead. Two terrific shocks
yesterday, another today. Sir Jas
Ferguson instantly killed in street.
Fire has burned itself out. Positive
insurance carried by Norwich Union
Insurance company of England, is
500, 600 pounds sterling. People need
tents. Great suffering If it rains.
rIancis Kahfe, of Buffalo, N. Y, Is
safe"
Francis U. Kahle is manager of the
Woodward Chemical company. He
sailed from New York an Jan. S, ON
/ the steamer Tagus of the Royal Mail
Packet line.
Mrs. Kahle and Miss Anna Scott
also of Buffalo, were in Kingston un-
til Jan. 5, when they left for Trini-
| lad. Mr.. Kahle was to meet them
there.
New York, Jan. 17.-Reports OF
| damage in Kingston by earthquake
and fire and as to the loss of life and
| the number of injured were still OF
conflicting character Thursday. This
is probably due to the confusion in
| the stricken city, such as always en-
sues after a great disaster.
Newspaper men and others who have
arrived at the telegraph station con-
Meeting with Holland bay, all have
different versions Of the castrophe and
OF the loss of life. Statements as to
the latter must of necessity largely be
conjectured until a search of the ruins
has been made and this must take
some days. Estimates of the num-
ber of dead vary from one hundred to