THE JAMAICA HURRICANE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10512, 23 November 1912, Page 5

THE JAMAICA HURRICANE.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Kingston, November 33. Communication has been restored with the stricken districts. The death roll is a hundred in the coast town alone. All coasting sloops and schooners in the harbours of Green Island foundered, and the majority of the crews were drowned. The Governor-General has arrived at Montego, and has ordered the despatch of tents wherein L to house the homeless. The Savaimalamar tidal wave was the highest for a century. It washed a coasting vessel halfway up the main street. All the churches and the railway station were unroofed. Forty dead were recovered from the wrecked buildings* levelled by tiie water’s force.