JAMAICA HURRICANE.
; -0— DEATH BOLL OP A HUNDRED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (lice. November 22, 9.30 p.m.) Kingston (Jamaica) November 22. Communication lias been restored with the districts devastated by tlie hurricane. The death roll amounts to a hundred in the coast towns alone. Air the coasting sloops and schooners in harbour at Green Island, on the west coast, foundered and the majority of their crews were drowned. The Governor, Sir Sidney Olivier, has arrived at Montego Bay, and has ordered the dispatch of tents to house the homeless. At Savanna la v Mar a tidal wave, tho highest for a century, washed a coasting vessel half-way up the main street. All tho churches and railway 'stations were unroofed, and forty dead have been recovered from wrecked buildings, whichwere levelled by the force of the waters.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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135JAMAICA HURRICANE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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