JAMAICA DISASTER

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 22 January 1907, Page 3

JAMAICA DISASTER

OVER 1700 BODIES RECOVERED CONDUCT OF I'iiOl'LK ADMIRABLE SEXDING HOMIXF.SS INTO THE COUNTRY. DYNAMITING DAXGKKoUS ' IiUUJHXGS. SURSIDEXCL AT I'OUT RuYAI.. * Received 21st. Pl.t p.m. Kingston. January 2!. Guards d'«l not lire n -iegic she.;. The Conduct Of tllO populace if | K-llgstoll IS O'l the whole admirable. A few attempt at looting v.oiv ecu lined to rum shop* ami provi-iun ,st .res. Turee or four train loads of homo less and dc-titut..' pc >p!c ale -..'lit deiiv into the country, wkciv food a :,'l shelter is abundant. Loudon. January 2!. The I'ress Associations' Kiagsl.:-, representative eabi.-s that 1747 I><>«ll.--had been found up to Friday. Renter cabled that up to Saturday 700 bodies had been buried, and there wen." still upwards of a thousand unidentified . Shocks continue on an average vl six daily. All buildings threatening to collapse were dynamited.

It is stated that Port Royai subsid cd seven feet. LISJIIIS ASHORE. Kingston. January 20. Many Americans at Kingston -are refuging in the United States men of war. Tho. Hamburg-American liner l'riuz Waldeinar is hard ashore at Plum Point owing to the alteration in th" harbour ana the destruction of die lighthouse. It U reported that the l'riuz Eite' Frederic is also ashore.