FLOODS IN WEST INDIES
HURRICANE IN JAMAICA. •
HAITI DEVASTATED.
MANY LIVES LOST.
OVER A MILLION DAMAGE. ir
„By Press^AssociatJon.-T-Copyright.
(Received November 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, November 13. News has just been received of a terrific hurricane experienced in Jamaica last week, receipt 61 the news having been delayed oh account of the cables being broken and communication entirely cut off for five days. For some weeks the daily rainfall averaged ten inches. The continued heavy fall caused land slides and inundated the plantations, playing great havoc. ~-v~ f-■ ■:
The damage in Kingston and neighbourhood is estimated at £50,000. A number of people have been drowned, but no ' estimate of the, number is yet available.
The island of Haiti (Santo Domingo) has also been devastated by floods. Several small towns are in ruins, and many lives have been lost in Haiti, which also suffered some damage by earthquake.
~A cablegram from ■ Kingston , assesses the damage in Jamaica at £1,000,000.
The Kingston waterworks were destroyed, and railways and tunnels were blocked, owing to landslides. Several bridges were destroyed.
One-third of the banana plantations on the northern side of the island were ruined. Roads have been rendered impassable, and many villages are isolated.
The town of Annotta was flooded to a depth of three feet. >
It is estimated that the Government calamities fund of £100,000 will be exhausted in repairing bridges, roads and railways \ j .\
Jamaica has suffered much from natural phenomena. In 1880, and again in 1893, enormous damage was done by cyclones. There arc two rains seasons, one in the spring and the other in summer, and in the latter the rains are exceptionally heavy, and there are sometimes hurricanes and thunderstorms. On January 14, 1907, an earthquake, followed by a fire, practically destroyed Kingston. In the space of 20 seconds the city was practically shaken into ruins and 1000 persons were killed and as many injured. . . ,\,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14218, 15 November 1909, Page 5
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