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Show , Z 1 AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC VIE W. Father O'Donovan. Avho, Avith Fathers Gocding, Stanton aud McGinney of the Society of Jesus, was giving a mission at Kingston. Jamaica, at the time of the earthquake, stopped in Philadelphia lat week on his return journey to Washington and Avas seen by a Standard and Times representative. He stated that none of the priests in KingsWi Avas hurt, except that lie received a slight iujuiy by being be-ing struck by a brick. The church is destroyed, and ihe priests' house Avas left in such condition as to Ik' unsafe, and they Avere compelled to take to the hiAvn. At the time of the earthquake Father O'Dono-van O'Dono-van Avas conducting the exercises of a retreat at a convent school. Avhen a rumbling noise was heard. One of the Sisters, a natii'e of Jamaica, recognized the rumbling as the approach of an earthquake, and Avarned all present to leave immediately. They barely got out of the building when it collapsed, killing a little child in its fall. In Winchester Park, the property of th Jesuits, the American forces under Admiral Davis established estab-lished the field hospital, in charge of Fleet Surgeon Ames and Surgeon Norton of the battleship Missouri, Mis-souri, and aided by Sifters, The hospital received more than fifty sufferers, including persons with fractured bones and skulls, cases of blood poisoning, poison-ing, which resulted from neglect of Avounds. etc. According to W. C. Cummer, a Clt A-eland manufacturer, man-ufacturer, who Avas at Port Antonio when the shock came, it Avas the priests and Sisters avIio got the hysterical natives down after the shock. The priests and Sisters walked up and down among the people camped in the streets. Right in the streets the- people peo-ple confessed, and after receiving the blessing of the Fathers all fear seemed to leaA-e the masses and they settled doAvn resignedly to await whateAer fate Avas in store for them. Among those most active in organizing relief for the victims prior to the departure of the American Amer-ican warships Avas Chaplain Gleason of the Missouri. |
