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Show visions and doctors to render the sufferers suf-ferers erery assistance possible. ' - A dispatch to the Royal'Mail Steam Packet company says that relief funds hare been started in the unaffected portions por-tions of the island of Jamaica, , - . Aid. rrwa England. . .. 1 v. .; t ' The -West Indian commission today reoeired a dispatch reporting the safety of Alfred Austin of the Colonial bank at Kingston, whose 'fate had :. been in doubt. The advices of the commission show the increasing extent of the damage dam-age done by the earthquake, and at the request of the commissioners the Colonial Co-lonial office has taken the initiative la inaugurating Mansion House fund for the relief of the sufferers. As this fund Is under the direction of the Government, Govern-ment, it promises to bring out a response re-sponse from the whole nation. Beports from, Austria and Switzerland Switzer-land show that seismic disturbances occurred there Monday at about the same time as in Jamaica, indicating-widespread indicating-widespread unrest of the earth's crust. FAMINE IMMINENT, AID NEEDED, SAY REPORTS TO LONDON LONDON, Jan. 17 (nnon). Murh surprise and anxiety are felt at the Colonial Co-lonial office at the absence of any further fur-ther news from the Governor of Jamaica. Ja-maica. An urgent dispatch calling on him to report the latest details was still unanswered this morning. The only message from Gov. Swettenham is the one forwarded, apparently, on Monday, Mon-day, after which there was complete silence, indicating an interruption of official news channels and increasing the apprehension regarding the destructive destruc-tive effects of the catastrophe. The Colonial office today was again besieged by snxious relatives, including includ-ing those of Sir Jsmes Ferguson, who sre still without positive official confirmation con-firmation of the death of the former Cabinet Minister, although the official advices leave no doubt that he la among the victims. Famine Imminent. During th early hours of the morning morn-ing the West Indian and Panama Canal company received a' dispatch from its superintendent at 8t. Thomas snnounc-ing snnounc-ing thst the situation at Kingston wss terrible, and that famine was Imminent. The superintendent adds thst the company's com-pany's steamer, Henry Holmes, hss left St. Thomas for Kingston with pro- |