HURRICANE IN JAMAICA.
-- -•- - - FORTY LIVES LOST. By Telegraph.—Press Association.- CopyrurlH Kingston, Wednesday. Forty lives are reported to have been lost in a hurricane which struck the town of Savariaiamar. A vessel arriving at Port Antonio reports that, the town is practically destroyed. The Governor dispatched a special train to the stricken district, also a detachment of artlilerymett to afford aid.
One hundred houses were levelled. JAMAICA DEVASTATED. <S>- Telegvuph.-Press Association, noi'.vri.':" 1 Received November 22, 9.0 p.m. Kingston, Thursday. The restoration of communication in the district shows the death roll to be a hundred in the coast towns alone. All coasting sloops and schooners in the harbours of Green Island foundered, and the majority of the crews were drowned. The Governor-General arived at Montego and ordered the despatch of tents to those who are homeless. At Savaimalma the tidal wave was the highest for a century. It washed coasting vessels half way up the main street.
All the churches and the railway station were unroofed and forty dead recovered in the wrecked buildings, which were levelled by the waters force.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 520, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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180HURRICANE IN JAMAICA. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 520, 23 November 1912, Page 5
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