Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22

Number of persons killed IVV
Injured testimated) 600
Property loss testimat-
cd .S1O,OoO.OOO
Population of Kingston $4,000
Number of American Wis
itOrs testimatedD 80. $500
Time of first shock, $3.50 y. m. Mon
day.
One hundred persons are dead. at
least 600 more have been wounded
more or less seriously and property
loss estimated ut $i0,000,000 wrought
by terrible earthquake which visited
the city of Kingston and the southern
coast of jamaica late Monday after
noon.
Fire followed the wrecking of the
city, as was the case in the San Fran
cisco disaster, and at latest accounts
this was not yet under control.
Direct communication with Kingston
was cut off when the earthquake
snapped the cables to America. Tenn
porary land lines have been establish
ed. however. connecting with other
cable lines. through which sources
meager details of the disaster are
being received.
Cables from Colon indicate that
many victims were burned to death,
the operator using the words furnace
of human souls" He also described
4I,n ssJoaA Nv
Hospitals Clicked with Wounded.
The hospitals that remain standing
are choked with injured dead lie in
all portions of the city and some of the
bodies We're burned up by the flames
which swept over the place.
Jamaica, being great winter resort,
with the city of Kingston the main
point of interest, attracted hundreds of
alarm is felt all over America for per-
sons from this country who are near
the scene of the seismic disturbance.
The latest dispatches indicate, how
ever. that no Americans have been
killed or wounded.
EngIishmen i'm Peril.
England did not escape so fortu-
nately, however. Sir James Ferguson
was killed. The most distinguished
visitors at Kingston were members of
party of English statesmen, agricul-
tural experts and men of affairs, who
under the leadership of Sir Alfred
Jones had arrived in Kingston within
the last few days to attend an agri-
cultural conference there.
among those in the company were
Hall Caine, the novelist; Viscount
Montmorres, ii. o. Arnold Forster,
NJ. P; Sir Thomas Hughes. Sir Thomas
Sham and others of equal prominence.
The Earl and Countess of Dudley also
were passengers on the steamer which
carried out the Jones party.
The first great shock was felt about
3 80 O'Clock Monday afternoon and
flames Immediately sprang from the
wreckage to carry on the work of de-
struction. Tuesday afternoon the fire
was still burning, although it was be-
lieved to be under control
Noted Hotel Wrecked.
The Myrtle Bank Hotel the prinei-
pal hotel at Kingston. which probably
sheltered the great bulk of visitors on
the island, is reported destroyed. The
great military hospital was burned and
forty soldiers are reported dead.
The extent of the destruction which
has been wrought in Kingston, a city
which already bears the scars of a
number of disastrous visitations of fire.
earthquake and cyclone in years gone
by, is still left largely to the magma
ton.
Population Is $4,000
The city is one of low-lying build
ings clustered along the shores of one
of the finest and most securely land
locked harbors in the West Indies. The
population, which numbers $4,000, is
largely made up of native blacks.
Many steamers carrying tourists to
Jamaica were en- route to the island
when the earthquake occurred but it
so happens that, according to sched-
ules, none of the ships from New York
or Boston was in Kingston harbOr
Monday afternoon.