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Show MORE THAN 100 LIES LOST II Western Part of Island of Jamaica Devastated by Terrific Ter-rific Wind, Followed by a Tidal Wave. AMERICAN COLONY . BADLY DAMAGED Coasting Vessel Blown Half a Mile Up the Miiin Street at Savanna La Mar; Dwell-ings Dwell-ings in Heap.' KIN'CSTOW.V, Jamaica, Xov. 21. The official estimate of tlio dead in the hurricauc and tidal wave that visited the western "part of Jamaica places the number at: more than 100 on the coast towns alone. Details gradually coming in indicate great devastation in the western section. Practically all lighter.". coasting sloops and small craft in tho harbor3 of Green Island, Monlogo "Bay, Lucca and Savanna La IUar foundered and a large proportion of the crews were drowned. Alanj- persons living in these towns lost their lives in tho collapse of buildings. Americans Safe. Tho houses of the American colony at iMontego JJay were badly damaged, but no casualties aro reported. Tho governor general of Jamaica', Sir Sydney Syd-ney Oliver, reached !Mont.cgo Bay today to-day and found conditions so direful that lie immediately ordered the dispatch dis-patch of several hundred additional tents and large quantities of food supplies sup-plies from Kingston. The railway Jines aro now working within twenty miles of Aloulego Bay, but tho telegraph lines aro. disorganized.' Th6 tidal wave at Savanna La a r was tho highest in a eon!.urj Ono coasting vessel was washed half a milo up tho main, street. T'ully iHO per cent of the houses worn blown down during tho hurricane. The principal houses were unroofed, as wero all tho churches and also the railway depot. Houses Piled in Heap. The stream swept over the tl-ectjjn tho lower Miction of tho towns and lower rows of dwellings were piled up iu a gigautic heap at tho mouth of a gully, where thn largest number of bodies weer recovered. An American tourist who happened to be in that towu during the hurricane said forty, bodies had been recovered up to the time of his departure. At. Green Island, IS miles south of Lucca, the American said, thoro was much wreckage ashore and afloat, but no sign of life could bo discerned. At Lueoa lejdead bodies were found directly after tho storm had subsided. |