Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-13 | Page 1 | Storm in Jamaica Does Great Damage

STORM II JAMAICA DOES CBEAT 1WME Enpreeedeuled Rainfall Causes Many Landslides; Much Fruit Is Ruined. KIKGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 10, via HoUaud Bay, Jamaica, Npy. 12. From the fragmentary reports arriving hero from the count ryMdu the damage resulting re-sulting fom the. htorms and floods that rave raged throughout this island sinco last Friday, is enormous. A portion of the railway and tho coast lino on the north side of the island has been seriously damaged. Landslides arb numeioiis on fhe main railroad and communication com-munication has been completely cut olf. Many bridges also have beou carried away. Property in and around Kingston suffered aeveroly, the damage sustained thus Jjir being estimated at "$fiUO,000. The intake and the main culverts of the city's water system havo been dost do-st royed and because of the continued downpour it has been impossible to off eel repnrrs. The recorded rainfall from November G to November 10 was lorfv-eight inches.- There- are no signs of the weather breaking. Ootninuuication was established today with tho north coast by steamer. The military cantonment in the mountains moun-tains has been cut off from communication communi-cation siuco last Saturday. All telegraph tele-graph wires aro down and "messages arc being sent, from Kingston to tho cable house by boat. Tho bauaua plantations in tho north and northeastern portions of Iho islands have been badly hit by the storm. Thousands Thou-sands of acres of frees have been, leveled lev-eled and llio fruit trade is all at a complete .standstill, for i.t is impossible 3 to get the bananas to tho ports for ship-I ship-I incut. The United Fruit company's steamer Bradford, which went ashore at Port Antonio, is a total wreck. The steamer Bradford was built at Copenhagen in 1901. She was of Oil tons net register and owned by M. Jcb-tcii Jcb-tcii of .Hamburg.