TERRIBLE HURRICANE.
TWO HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED. LONDON, September 15. Reuter's despatch reports that by a great hurricane at Barbadoes 40,000 people have been rendered homeless, and 200 killed. The damage is estimated at a quarter of •a million. A tidal wave swept over a portion of the Island of St. Lucia, the largest of the Windward Islands. The cocoa estates were devastated, and landslips were frequent. Three large vessels went ashore at Kingston, the capital of the island. At Sfc. Vincent the tidal wave was accompanied by a terrific hurricane. The town is totally destroyed, and 300 of 'its inhabitants have perished. • The number of homeless is now said to be 20,000.v At Guadalope the hurricane was very severe, and there were many landslips. Twenty persons were killed. September 16. Excepting Jamaica, all the islands in the West Indies suffered by the hurricane, many of them cruelly. The governors are appealing for assistance from English people. The warship Alert, at Barbadoes, escaped going ashore by steaming out to sea. The telegraph lines and cables are injured, and many churches wrecked. September 17. The hurricane in the West Indies raged for seven hours. It was the worst experienced since 1831. Six hundred deaths are recorded. One thousand huts -were destroyed at Barbadoes, where 50,000 are rendered homeless. At St. Vincent 41,000 are without shelter or food. The Lord Mayor of London has opened a fund for the relief of the sufferers. Mr Chamberlain has cabled his sympathy. The warships at Jamaica and Halifax are engaged conveying stores to the devastated islands. The Legislature of the Barbadoes voted £16,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the recent gales and hurricane.
Hurricanes are the great scourge of the Windward Islands, and particularly of Barbadoes. In 1780 a hurricane destroyed 4326 persons and property to the value of £1,320,564. Its violence almost surpassed belief. The wind and the waveß between them carried a 12-pounder gun a distance of 140 yards. In 1831 a hiu--licane destroyed 1531 persons, and property to the value of over £1,000,000. The Gulf of Mexico may be said to be the cradle of cyclones.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 17
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378TERRIBLE HURRICANE. Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 17
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