MARTIAL LAW.
, TERROR-STRICKEN NEGROES. LONDON, January 18. New York telegrams report that martial law was enforced until the panio subsided. The negroes at first were frantic, believing that it was a supernatural visitation. Forty whites were killed. The shops were full of buyers, when the first shock shattered the flimsier buildings. The stronger edifices were damaged, but were subse-
quently burned. The main fire station, was destroyed, and hindered fire-fight-ing operations, but the official city police and troops, headed by the Governor, began rescue work within half an hour. Convicte assisted. Only a score of doctors were available. The fires, commencing from the docks, spread north with amazing velocity, completely razing an important commercial district. It is feared that Sir James Fergussou's body ha 6 been burned.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8832, 19 January 1907, Page 7
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