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Show GRAPHIC DETAILS OF DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF KINGSTON i i LONDON, Jan. 17. 8ome graphic details de-tails of the Kingston disaster are given in one of the latest dispatches received here, dated from Holland Bay, January 15. According to this "report the whole city of Kingston seemed to shrivel up, buildings crashed together and fell in a crushed mass under the first shock. The streets at the time were filled with tourists, and according to this correspondent, corre-spondent, many were caught under the falling bricks and buried in the debris. Fire broke out immediately after the crash at three separate points. The fire department station was wrecked, rendering ren-dering resistance to the flames impossible. impos-sible. The fire continued unchecked until Tuesday morning, by which time the whole business quarter of the eity had been wiped out, the damaged area comprising about a square mile. All the large warehouses in the lower part of the city were consumed and not a single sin-gle house anywhere remained undamaged. undam-aged. When this dispatch was filed the bodies of many people who had been staving at the Myrtle Bank hotel were stifl beneath tbe wreckage. When ("apt. Young of the Royal Mail steamer Arno was killed, First Officer McCauley assumed command of the vessel ves-sel and steamed alongside the burning Roysl Mail wharves, and there fought the fire all night long and saved one of the piers. In the meantime the decks of the Arno had become covered with burned and injured persons, who were without aid to relieve their sufferings. There has been a great exodus of people from Kingston to hilltops and other places of safety. Many thousands are camping in the open. The entire city will have to be rebuilt. re-built. One official cstimste places the loss at $25,000,000. A number of fissures in the earth have aDpeared, the street car tracks are out of shspe, the rails are twisted, the water mains and the gas and electric elec-tric pipes snd wires are in complete disorder, while the destruction oi the bonded warehouses fills the air with an overwhelming odor of rum. Americana Missing. No Americans have been killed or Injured, so far as known, but one report re-port says that eight American tourists are among the missing. Many of the natives are in danger of starvation unless they receive immediate im-mediate assistance. That portion of the town of Port Royal which sank two centuries ago is again under water. At least from thirty to forty persons per-sons were killed ss a result of the collapse of the Myrtle Bank hotel. The devastated region stretches from the wharves in the southern part of the city to the rare course in the north, to the customs house in the west snd to Fleet street in the east, this district containing all the principal stores, banks and Government offices, all of which were wrecked, most of them being be-ing leveled to the ground. The sender of the above dispatch does not mention any looting or violence, vio-lence, except in the case of a few rum shops, which were invaded by negroes. The reports received here from St. Tbomss, direct, estimate the results in Kingston at about 1000 killed and 9000 homeless, snd place the damage at $10,-000,000. $10,-000,000. Concerning the latter, while the fire' insurance companies here repudiate all liability, under the earthquake clause in the' policies, the marine insurance societies are likely to be pretty hard sufferers, the risk" of fire to merehan-j merehan-j disc, wharves and warehouses having been largely carried by thoe companies com-panies of recent years, and their policies poli-cies do not appear to include a clause exempting them from the results of earthquake. Have Narrow Escape. Sir Alfred Jones, Jesse Collings, M. P., and several other members of Sir Alfred's party, had remsrkable escapes es-capes from burial in the ruins of the Mvrtle Bank hotel. According to a dispatch dis-patch received from Holland Bay this afternoon, after lunching at the hotel, 8ir Alfred, Collings and others went out on the pier st the wster front and amused themselves by tossing couis into in-to the water for the negro divers. The visitors had just left the pier on their wsy back to the hotel when, as they reached the hotel lawn, the earthquake came and the hotel toppled over in rnins around the travelers. The pier which they had just left also was destroyed. |