The Grenada sentinel., 1907-01-26
500 DEAD ARE FOUND
RECOVERING BODIES FROM THE
EARTHQUAKE RUINS.
FOOD and SUPPLIES NEEDED
TO Obtain Bread, Starving People
Attack Few Remaining
Stores.

Kingston, jamaica, Jan. 19.-The
bodies of 600 victims of the recent
earthquake have been recovered, anG
others are constantly being found.
order has been restored and the work
OF burying the dead md caring for the
injured is progressing on an organ
lied basis. The total estimate OF
deaths remains at about 1000
A general survey showed that the
city has been almost destroyed. Prac-
tically every stone building in the city
has been demolished. Dynamite is
being used to clear away the debris.
Port Royal has again sunk, the land
being eight feet lower than it was
before the earthquake. Geysers are
springing up in the streets.
The commercial houses on Harbour
and Port Royal streets fell in on one
another and few of the merchants or
their employees, except those who hap
pened to be in the street, escaped.
Gov. and Lady Swettenham have set
a splendid example in the work Of re-
lief.
Supplies of food and medicine are
needed imperatively. The Chinese
dealers advanced prices on their
stocks Of provisions 1000 per cent, and
starving persons without money
smash the windows of the stores and
carry off the goods.
Every church and newspaper office
is gone, and there is no likelihood that
any newspaper will resume publica-
ton for months, as the city is ire
trievably ruined.
Many of the biggest merchants are
among the dead.
The American consulate was
wrecked. The acting consul has tried
to get a cable dispatch to the state
department asking for help.
The work of sending in relief to the
stricken city is proceeding with en-
ergy. Kingston is receiving supplies.
Jamaica itself.
The American warships in the har-
Dor have put on shore all the food
stuffs and medical supplies they could
spare, and the Jamaican authorities
have taken charge of the distribution
of all provisions in the city. In ad-
dition relief is being hurried in from
outside quarters.
The people Of the British island OF |
Trinidad have sent a first installment |
of relief; H. NJ. S. Indefatigable has |
left Port of Spain, Trinidad, with pro-
clothing and other supplies |
The French government has started a
cruiser from the island of Martinique
with supplies for Kingston; the Man
sion Home Fund in London is growing |
rapidly, and the British authorities are |
perfecting the details of relief on a
large scale, and in addition various
other steamers are on their way or
about to start for Kingston with food,
and medicines aboard.
Gable communication with the island
has been partly restored, but mes
'ages from Jamaica are coming
through very slowly.
Great relief is afforded to all those
who have American friends in Jamai-
"a by a statement received from the
,ffice of the cable company at Kings,
on that up to o'clock Thursday
evening no Americans had been re-
ported killed or severely wounded by
he earthquake
The list of victims is growing. and
he names of no less than forty per-
ons of more or less prominence in
he Jamaican capital already have
'een given out as dead. About twen-
y we'll known people are either in
ured or missing.