Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1907-01-28
CLEARING AWAY
KINGSTON DEBRIS
CITY LOOKS LIKE VICTIM OF
VOLCANO.
AMERICAN MARINES HELP
Give Excellent Service in Cleaning
Streets and Recovering Bodies Of
the Dead-Early Estimates Of Fa-
taiities Prove to Be Too Conserv
stive

Kingston, Monday Jan 21The
work Of clearing the streets OF King
ston Of debris and recovering corpses
lis proceeding rapidly.
The southwestern portion Of King
ston looks exactly as did st. Pierre
after the eruption Of Mount Pelee
The American battleships Indiana
and Missouri arrived here Thursday.
Admiral Davis at once visited Gov
ernor Swettenham and offered the as
sistance Of the ships armed guards
to protect banks and public buildings
and to send ashore rescuing parties
to aid in recovering the dead
The latter offer was accepted with
thanks, and a party of marines land
ed Thursday afternoon and are still
working like trojans, performing
service that forever will be remem-
bered in this island. The former Of
fer was declined, as the local troops,
militia and constabulary were deemed
sufficient to preserve order and pro
tect all buildings that need prOtec-
ton (Other dispatches from King
ston declare that American marines
landed and were protecting the city,
American naval doctors are doing
magnificent work in assisting the To-
cal doctors.
Til" original estimates of the killed
were too moderate, over 900 victims
were buried Saturday, and scores OF
kali. burned bodies have been taken
| fIcm the ruins of collapsed buildings
and cremated Fully 1000 persons
have been manned for life, their legs
or arms having been amputated, and
those who sustained lesser wounds
arc counted by thousands. Thousands
OF persons are still encamped at the
race course and in the parks adjOin
ing Up-park camp
Many Women Killed.
Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 20.-The
steamer Oteri, the second refugee
ship from Jamaica, arrived here at
daylight She left Kingston at II
O'Clock Friday morning and brings
IOH pdSSOA1SOAO.
The refugees report that the list Of
dead is over 1000. A large pTssabr-
ton of the persons killed were wo-
men. The collapse of the Machado
cigar factory is confirmed, but the
refugees declare that only 80 en-
ployes we're killed, instead of 12O as
previously reported.
The city, when these refugees left,
was being well policed and the Amer
lean marines assigned to this duty
were praised by the Oteri's passen-
gers. The West Indian regulars and
colored troops were rendering excel
lent service.
The steamer Prinz Waldemar Of
the Hamburg American line, which is
ashore near the Princess Victoria
Louise, will prove a total loss.
No brick houses in Kingston re-
main standing.
Just Missed the Disaster.
New York, Jan. 20.--The steamer
Altrato, which sailed from Kingston
last Monday morning, nine hours be
fore the earthquake devastated the
city, arrived Saturday with AZ saloon
passengers, most of them returning
tourists from the West Indies
The Altratos passengers first heard
Iof the disaster last Thursday when
the wireless operator received bull
letin reporting an earthquake with
400 killed and 1000 injured.
The news caused great excitement
and efforts were made to get further
details by wireless. There was no
more news until Friday, however,
when further details of the disaster
were received from one of the coast
Uirp1pcC stations