The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-02-06

st. Thomas, Danish West Indies
Reports received here from Jamaica
say it is now estimated that 1000
persons have been killed by the
earthquake and fire.
Ninety thousand persons have been
rendered homeless.
The damage to Kingston alone is
placed at fully S10,000,00O. ...
All people have been warned to
keep away from. Kingston. The
stencil there is described as awful.
There is no fodder for animals, and
famine is imminent.
Money is useless. The banks have
been burned, but the vaults are sup
posed to be safe. .,
The misery on all sides is indie
%scribable. Rich and poor alike are
homeless. Provisions Of all kinds are
urgently needed. It is impossible to
say where anybody can be found.
The dead are being buried under
smouldering ruins.
Property Loss of $1O,O0O,0O0.
Kingston, Jamaica.-The destruc-
ton in Kingston is appalling. 1t is
now estimated that from 500 to 1000
persons have lost their lives through
the earthquake shock which wrecked
the city and the fire that followed in
its wake:
I The fire has burned out, and what
was once a. beautiful city is now a
CHASTITY area Of wreckage and full of
the sounds Of lamentation and
mourning.
sleeping in the streets and parks,
their principal food being bananas.
The troops and police at present have
the situation we'll in hand, but there
is pressing need of supplies and tents.
If rain should fall, the suffering is
sure to be great. Houses in the
try for miles" around have been
wrecked. Three hundred and ten
bodies were buried in the Catholic
cemetery. e
1t is estimated that the loss will
total more than 100000 The
insurance carried by the Norwich
Union Insurance Company of Eng
land alone is 100000. H. Heaton, a
mar who has gone over the district,
estimates that the dead will number
anywhere from five hundred to a
thousand, but the discovery of bod
les and the search for the missing are
proceeding very slowly.
With the destruction of the insane
asylum hundreds of lunatics escaped
and are roaming at large.
The natives refuse to week. Sir
Alfred Jones says they will continue
to seek. employment ,onsthe Panama
Canal, and that their places here
must be taken by coolie labor brought
from India.
Of the dead 1t is safe to say that
one hundred are white, among them
Captain. Constantine, the local repre-
sentative of the Royal Mail Steamship
Line; Captain Young, commander of
the Areno, Of the Royal Mail Line,
and Captain Lamont, who was soon
to be married to an American girl.
Among those reported missing are
Charles and Edward De Cordova, J..
w. Middleton Bradley, who married
Miss Varley, of the family extensively
interested in sugar cultivation; BERTHE
Varley, Charles Sherlock and his
brother. well known merchants.
Messrs. Baker and Angler, of Bos-
ton, and Francis Kahle, of Buffalo,
escaped without injury. Sir James
Ferguson vas instantly killed in the
street by falling masonry.
Three Great Shocks LeveIed City.
Holland Bay, Jamaica.-A violent
earthquake destroyed Kingston at
$40 in the afternoon. Three shocks
within an interval of~ffteen seconds
leveled the lower part of the city on
the water front.
The upper part was less damaged,
but was ruined by the fires which fol-
lowed Immediately. There was no
water, all the mains being broken,
and the fire burned all night. 1t is
under control. The whole city south
of the Parade is consumed, including
churches, banks and government
buildings, except the Treasury.
The streets are full Of wreckage
and wires, and the charred bodies of
men and horses. The worst disaster
happened at the camp. The whole
barracks is down. The Military Hos