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Show I ISLAND OF JAMAICA DEVASTATED j BY TERRIFIC WIND AND RAIN j . v v ni.i 5i',' .,,, V";;,'. ';;"-' vrT -.1'". ; .v -'..-I''-'-'h';,. "rJ' '"'- i:V;:A .;,..--. '""''"''"-"'lU ' V:..-.-.. ' -.V, s :'"'""V" foxticn" ?r izAizrox. cf javasfvcrr Tirrizz: TfQUSXI7J OJ1 HOUSE? WAE &ZSTXOYI , Ilio (Mil ii i llsnd (if Jamaica was wcti by a lorrlllc hurricane which cuiim'iI the death nf seventy persons and a property Iohh climated at V ) r tion.non. Hundred of person worn Injured mid there worn numerous hair breadth cecal-. Port Antonio, on tint north coat. wa ootiiplotcly overwhelmed. Only six bouse were loft stitmllhg thorn. The United fruit company's wharves, ollico, hotel end plantation were do-molliihcd. do-molliihcd. Flvo of thu roiiipitiiy stoamor. lo'lrfillnr tlin Hlmou LM- mola and Prlghton. worn ilrlvoa s-rhoro. I'nrt Marl, another town on tlio nnrtii coast, also suffered slmllnr-ly. slmllnr-ly. Tha coiuit I strewn with, tho ' wreckoKe of local sailing vessels. Tho Kiitlra eastern eud of tha Island haa boon devastated. Villages have beaa wlod out and tha publlo build InKM aad ntiurohoa demolished. Thoit sands of tha pnanantry, rondured li..m.'i,.,r( ,iii-l ih-illluto. are wnliilerln nhout ai-cl.ing food and ahelu-r. The ilctiiil!iiu of tin- hnnana plnutallona hn In . ii rninpli le and the fruit trade la p.llalleil for the uet twelve month. Ilimdteila of proi.ii-roua fruit crowi-re have bi-en hroticht to tjankniptry hihI ruin. The Houtlieaitern portion of tho Inland hu I ll completely denuded of II h ito". the rltcr nre Hooded and many men were carried oul to aea and drov-ncd. Tim western end of the Inland, which wna at flrnt Miippiied to hnvo eacapod. ulao aulTeroil comddernldy, thouifli not to the extent which tho tnatern did. New banana plnutallona planted there worn partly destroyed, and tho oranKu and roffeo cropa were atti Injured. Thft Ntirwei-lan ateainir Pnlvntore dl tller-tll n driven mdioin at An-notta An-notta bay and Ilea In a danKoroua po- alth.n. Hfvernl anlllng vessels wort j wrecked on tho, north aldo. Torrential rnlna Increased the ml-cry ml-cry of Iho oor ami homeless. Tho andn uf houos In Kingston wers ilntnarcd. the wharves wore bntlarial nmt several coasting vessels wore xunlt In tho harlxir. Thu roof uf tha electric llk-ht works was blown oR and Iho machinery wns disabled. I tall-load tall-load tralUc waa Interrupted and I lis hi reel cars were stopped. Many bouses worn damaned by fulling trooa. Trad Is prscllcally at atandatlll. K. (Torts are being made to rollers tha Immediate wants of some localities, locali-ties, but the local effort are totally la-mletiuatu. la-mletiuatu. Unless Immediate shipments ship-ments of food como from America deaths by starvation are Inevitable. The local hospitals In the windswept wind-swept dlHtrlrts are crowded with tin Injured, and the death list la Increasing. |