TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81916, 17 January 1907, Page 3

TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE.

CHIEF CITY OF JAMACIA DEVASTATED KINGSTON Rci ORTED DES- I TROYED MANY LIVES LOST INHABITANTS CAMPING CUT AfeXIETY FOR EHGU.SH VISITORS Keceivcd lolli, H 1.2 ii.Hi. London, .];um.uv 10. A v«v severe .-Hi-LlKjiiaUo occurred at Kingston, Jamaica, on Monday aftenioon Tiie citv was destroyed with much loss of life. The shocks continued on Tuesday.

Everybody i.-, camping out, and there is much distress.

For many hours all cable communi cation was su-pended, ami is biib v: it incomplete

Great anxiety is felt for tie safety of a large party i.f Kuglish visitors, who arrived ai Kiiig:*um oa Friday to attend an important agri cultural conference then' on .Monday. including tin' Karl and Coimte.-- "I

Dndlev. Mr Arnold Foster. Hall Caine. Jesse "Ceilings, llemiiker lleatou, W. llowel! Davie* (a Commoner). Vis count Mount .Morrcs. Sir Alfred 1,. Jones (shipowner), Sir Daniel Mori:-. and many pruiiiineut business men intested "in \Ye,t Indian ciit-ju grew ing.

DETAILS MEAGRE HOPED FIUST KKI'uKT E\A(iGURATED. London, .lanuarv Hi. Received Kith, 10.2 p.m.' A Renter niesage from Saint Thomai early to day states that though de tails are meagre, it is he ioveil tin tirst report that Kingston was de, stroyed was an exaggeration.

FIRES RAGING IN THE CITY REPORT FROM lIIUTISH 11.P. ALL BUILDINGS AND DU'ELLINii; DESTROYED. MILITARY HOSPITAL BURNT. 40 SOLDIERS KILLKD. Received Hitii, 10.8 p.m. London, .lanuarv 111. Jlr W. Hauiar Oreenwoo I, a Com moucr, cabled to the Colonial Offie from Holland Bav that all buuline .-.nd dwehngs in Kingston had been de stroyed by the earih.piake ami sul.se cjuifvt tire. The military lio'sp'ta! was burnt, m •10 soldiers reported kilcd, also several proniineiiv citizens. [There is a British garrison numb r boring 1700 officers and men at Ki'i.gs ton.)

ENGLISH DIPLOMAT KILLED THE CITY (JL'II'X THE UOVERXOII I.dUF.CTING AFFAIRS. Received lfith, lU.'l p.m. tiOiidon. .lanuarv lb. Sir James Fergus..-,!, it is ivpor.ed. was killed insaulaiieous y. No other Englimi, AieeHe:,,! or Canadiaa vi,itors are reported unking. The eilv'is ipiicl, and the Govevnor. assisted liy .Sir Alfred Jon .. is direct ing affairs.

CONSTERNATION iH MEW YORK FLEET Ob'DEKEL) Ol'T. Received Kith, 10.!t ii.ii'i. Xew York. January Ili. (.'uiislcrnat on prevails in Xew i erk owing to die thousand- of American visitors in Jamaica. The American Govcrnm-.-n' minimise the disaster, but lias order, d the il ■'; oir Cuba to the tnitli regarding the earthquake.

FIRES NOW CONFINED TO DOCKS EXEItUETTC bL" l'l'l!EssiUX EFFOIU'S. ESTIMATED UXLidt 100 KILLED. LUPOKTAXT Ut ILUIXCiS DE {jTKOYED. Iteceivcd Kith, 10.14 p.m. London, Jauuaiy Id. Keuter'a latest advices state that die tire is still turning, though it is con. lined to the ducks.' It i-T being- energetically fmiijliL Xo mention is made of the slimt eoiitiuuing. It is estiiaaU'd that under ole liuu died were killed. The principal iiolel and other important bui dings wire dc-troyca. and many hou=cs damaged. [.Tauiaic.i i, the lar-cs, of Hi- IJ/i----tish West India Islands, lyinj; i'u inih". soutii of Cuba. K ieniitn i- i 44 uiiif ■> and it greatest wi lib 10 niiVs. Thisland is mountainous, and a ran-e of lulls, known a- the lllue ai-.unieiii-. run from cad >o we-.i. Tie' c.i.,:,:ii is Kinjrston. with a popu atuni oi .48.500, with Spaui>h lowa 11 li ■ "a! tapital) of next i-epoitaia-c The total populatio: oi Jamaica and do pendencies on Maiea ;tl.-l, I'.rU. w... 75r»,434, cliielly oi nreiw-J