EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
ISLAND OF MONTSERRAT PLYMOUTH (Montserrat, British West Indies), November 11. Heavy property damage was caused by earthquakes which rocked the island on. Sunday afternoon and during the night. No one was injured. Homes and other buildings were either damaged or wrecked outright. Plymouth's water supply was cut off by the breaking of the main pipeline, and telephone services were disrupted. I Downtown Plymouth, where the earthquakes were heaviest, was almost deserted at the time, and the churches had emptied before St. Peter's Roman Catholic structure was partially destroyed. The earthquakes did not take the island by surprise, for during the last fortnight there had been preliminary rumblings. Montserrat, in the Caribbean Sea, is one of the Leeward Islands. It lies 27 miles south-east of Antigua and has an area of 32i square miles. The active volcano Soufriere (3000 ft) is the highest point. Cotton and lime juice are the main exports, and Plymouth is the chief town. The population of the island in 1929 was 11,954.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 11
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168EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 117, 13 November 1935, Page 11
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