A HURRICANE.
BIG FLOODS IN JAMAICA. SAN DOMINGO DEVASTATED. HAYTI DAMAGED BY EARTHQUAKE. LOSS -OF SLIF& REPORTED. ENORMOUS DAMAGE IDONE. ! United Press Association—Dy <*.eUric Telegrai h Copyright. Eeeeivd November 14, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, November 13. As mo news had been received from Jamaica foorii-ve day?, ..owing'..to the cables being broken, a disaste- was feared. Great .floods were .reported prior to the cables soing, and indications suggested that terrific storms had occurred &t sea and on.land. News has now been received that a hurricane has heen raging .in.Jamaica for some -weeks. The .rainfall asi eraged den * inches daily. A BiicHibeir .of iland .slides occurred, and the flood watbrjaJayed havoc,with the plantations. The damage ; at Kingston and in J the neighbourhood js .estimated at £50,000. A number .of persons were drowned. San Douadiijgo has .been devastated by flood.
( HAYTI, .November 13. i Several snaaJj iowns;are in .ruins, ! and many lives bave .been ;lost in Hayti, which was ailao damaged by earthquake. A Kingston cablegram assessesitbe damage at Jamaica at £1.,.000,000. The Kingston waterworks were destroyed and railway tunnels .blocked owjng to landslides. Several bridges were .de&tcoyed. (Sine third of the banana plantations on the northern side of tifee island have been ruined. The roads am impassable, and many villages are isolated. The town of Annott Bay is flooded to a depth of three feet. It is estimated that the Government's Calamity Fund of £IOO.OOO sterling will be exhausted in repairing bridges, roads and the railways.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9650, 15 November 1909, Page 5
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243A HURRICANE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9650, 15 November 1909, Page 5
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