HURRICANE IN WEST INDIES
CABLES INTERRUPTED
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LONDON, i>ov. 12
No news has been received from Jalhaica for five days. The cables are broken. Great floods were repc-ted prior to the cables going, and tho .'i - dications suggested terrific '‘term.-: on sea and land.
TREMENDOUS DAMAGE IN JAMAICA AND HAITI.
(Received November 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13
Hurricanes prevailed at' Jamaica for some weeks. The rainfall averaged 10 inches daily. Land slides and inundations played havoc with tlie plantations.
The damage in Kingston and the neighborhood .is estimated at £50,000 sterling. A number of people wero drowned.
MANY LIVES LOST
Haiti and San Domingo were devastated by floods. Several small towns are in ruins.
Many lives were lost at Haiti, which was damaged by an earthquake.
JAMAICA DAMAGES A MILLION
STERLING
A Kingston cablegram assesses the Jamaica damage at a million sterling. The Kingston water works were destroyed, and railways and tunnels blocked owing to landslides. Several bridges were destroyed. One-third of the banana plantations on the northern side of the island arc ruined.
Roads are impassable, and many villages isolated.
The town of Annotto Bay was flooded to a depth of three feet.
It is estimated that tlio Government’s calamities fund of £IOO,OOO sterling will be exhausted in repairing bridges, roads, and railways.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2659, 15 November 1909, Page 5
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