HOW SIR JAS. FERGUSSON WAS KILLED.
■HUBJHD UMiDBB TOISiS OF DiBBRIS
tfiSi THE CITY DOOMED?
DAONIGEBI OF FiLLING INTO SEA.
(Per Unite 4 Pre&s Association-)
LCND'ON, Jfumiair|y 18
■Mr H'onnicker Heaton states that within an hio-ur of his parting with Sir James Forgusson, the latter was buried under tons of bricks.
His not returning 'to Government House first aroused fears tte to his fate.
New York telegrams slate that the situation from a, medical point of vio.v is improving sine© the destroyer Whippla arrived.
Owing to- the can:,p hospital having only one exit it proved! a, death trap.
Private telegrams state that the shore of Kingston harbor is sinking-
It is feared that the city may slip into the sea.
T'h,e water in tho harbor has encroached a, hundred feet.
The wharves arc either sinking or "burned.
The Presidents of America and France have ciondoled with! King Edward at this terrible misfortune.
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Thames Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 10196, 19 January 1907, Page 2
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