The Oregon daily journal., January 17, 1907, Image 1

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MORTMCOM
Another Shake Tumbles Down
Ruins at Kingston; Adding to
Natives' Terror r-- A Thousand
Dead, Two Thousand Iniured,
Ninety Thousand Homeless.
i-r "Holland 'Bay, Jan. 17. Bulletin. A gigantic tidal wave has
L swept Annota bay, on the north .coast of Jamaica, and it is reported
thai the entire coast line has been
.anc beach sunk-iato the sea-Ureat4oss-xi Jife- js-reported.
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New York, Jan. 17. The shores of the harbor of Kingston are
f; sinking and there is terror lest the
- of the harbor is sinking in many
.' a hundred feet deep. - ,.. . ,,-.
iA-vCorrespondent -cables .from
the streets till the auake. when
Buildings collapsed filling therstreets with' debriSvT Gas and "electric
supplies are cut off and the.hre, department. is crippled. I saw ter-
rible scenes in the streets and cotmteilildead. rnJvirig street about
-. the wreckage and 18 dead in Harbor street, ,Jhepoiice estimate
that there are 1,200 dead. ' - " s, ,
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Jamaica, as severe as the, first, is reported today via Santiago. The
ijhoclLiS'.saidJLctliaruledowjthe tottenngbuildings. . "
..-: 4 -.il -1 . .Kingston; a . City of Despair-- ' ".,..,
Kingston, ' Jan. 17. Reeking with the nauseating stench' of
hundreds of putrifying bodies, the ghostliness only partially dis
pelled by cries of searchers for the missing or the crash of an oc
casional collapsing building,; Kingston is today a city draped with
desnair. : Combininc with ihe natural trloom ' following the His-
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aster to intensify- chaotic conditions is the -terror inspired by the
,' fear of further shocks. . " - ' '
Numerous recurrences of varying intensity of the shocks of
Monday have served to keep the ignorant blacks in a state border
ing on panic and have greatly "hampered the efforts of rescuers.
Toppling buildings fringe every street, unswept by flames.' A stiff
. breeze brings these down with a crash and volunteer, rescue, parties,
made up almost entirely of white men, are taking their lives in
their hands to search "the rums,-their heroism being inspired by the
knowledge that scores of imprisoned wretches still lie buried in the
debris4, pinned down and unable to help themselves. . .
; ; - . ;-. 1 Accurate Figures Impossible. . v . ,
V Accurate figures on the number of dead are out of the question
at this time.- The work of collecting the dead is scarcely more
. than begun. The list will certainly be way up in the hundreds.
y That it will reach the thousand mark is not improbable. The dead
are by no means confined to the negro population, as at first re-
. ported." , - , . . , . .
Lack of police facilities and confusion is hampering the. work
of identification. Embalming is out of the question. Unless iden
tified quickly the bodies of the white victims will have to be con
signed' to. unmarked graves, along with hundreds of native victims,
The worst has not yet been told. Much suffering is certain to
result.- ine impossioiiiy oi aescriDing inc. aciuai norrors ot tne
situation and "the torturing slowness of the relief' is maddening.
Above all is the terrifying thought' that any minute may bring on
a recurrence of Monday's disaster or worse,, and that Kingston
' may be doomed to suffer the fate of Port Royal, overwhelmed by a
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Another Feature
One of tha beat tver (Iren with tn American luwiptptiwhii been
added to tha many that hava mada Tha Sunday Journal tha moat popu
: lar puMlcaUon In tha wcat. - Hera&fter piece of tnuelo by tha clever
rt tnni writers and comnoRera will h lvn f re to every aubaorlber.
Thla t worth a treat deal mora than tha prlca of theSfcaer. . ;
THAT IS BUT ONI.
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others and juet as good In every column of the (0 paces published--Annn-hefJntfetlnff--thln(ira.-
trMU you can- - fl4-feowhere- elee - ere
story of how tha Indians take a Turkish bath, tha true cause of the re
call of Ambassador Durand, Valuable hints OA) health and beauty for
woven, pictures taken -to illustrate the president's own story of Panama,
I , what the American missionary la doln lit Japan, the fourth generation.
k of the' Hudson bay'-voyajaur. how men' may t1ri success, fine Action,"
i grimes and pussies for runa; and old. and the funnleat oomlcs in the
world. These are but a few of the things that will make it worth
your while to buy and read - t
i The Sunday Journal
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changed and a great stretch of
city slip into the sea. The bed
places and the water is already
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Holland bay i 4 "Tourists filled
the citv seemed to shrivel no.
iecoqd v earthquake . shock Jn
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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING. JANUARY
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IS APPALLING J
Terrorized Negroes by
Scores Die in Ruins
City Is Ghastly Ared
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(Joomil Special BVrvic. )
Kingston, Jan. 17. The deafruction
of Kingston is appalling. Two terrific
shocks cam Monday and one Ayeater
day. Thar Are has. burned Itself out.
and' what was once a beautiful olty-la
now-a, ghastly area me wreckage, full
of sounds of laraentauon and mourn
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The death Iit - may; reach - 1.M0.
Moat of the . dead-are wgreee Many
of them lost their heads through ter
ror and .were burned to death 1n the
Are which followed the. earthquake.- In
the' burned dlatrtct the police are carry,
ing' bodies out of the rulna of almost
every ' building. '''....
.Not 'all the Americans and English
escaped. The flint systematic search of
the ruins, started today, revealed the
bodies of a number of whites. More
are certain to be found.
Consul rayne'e Estimate.
United States .Consul Payne this
morning estimated 1,000 sre dead, t.000
Injured and . 80,000 homeless In the
island. i . .
It is likely that the United States
government will be called upon today
for. food. - Every white tourist Is in
danger on account ot the lack of sup
plies. Natives can live on the fruits on
the island, but If the tourists resort to
this It wtll cause a pestilence.
rractlcally tho entire . business por
tion of the city. Is destroyed and most
of the houaes are partially wrecked.
The light frame buildings which consti
tute the greater part of Jamaica went
to pieces Ilka so much tissue paper, and
hundreds 'were caught by falling tim
bers. .' I
Fire started In the ruins along the
waterfront and spread rapidly. . There
was no water and the firemen were
hejpless.. A strong wind was blowing
and the , debris , burned like tinder.
Flames which swept all building along
Duke, Fort Royal, King and East streets
rsged until o'clock Tuesday morning,
when the winds changed and the fire
practically burned itself out..
Xeeoue work Wader Way.
Rescue work under the direction--of
the soldiers In the British garrison and
municipal authorities waa begun at
once. The general hospital was soon
filled with hundreds of Injured. When
the hospitals were filled to overflowing
the Injured were taken oa vessels In the
harbor. - The work of transferring the
Injured to boats went on all Monday
night. ' .
A camp ror tne refugees was organ
Ized aa soon aa possible on the big race
track and more than S0.000 negroes are
now . sheltered in It . Thousands of
other have sought safety In the sur
rounding country. All the principal
banks, churches and most of the office
buildings In the city are down. The
treasury Is damaged, but the butldiag
Is still standing.
Thousands of homeless person sre
living In the streets and parks, - tho
principal food being bananas. Houses
In the country for mile around hare
been wrecked.
One hundred and eighty bodies were
buried in tha Catholic cemetery Tues
day and 130 more Wednesday. With
th- destruction of the tnaana aaylum
hundreds of lunatics escaped 'and are
roaming at large. Ketlvee refuse to
work.
The streets of Kingston are full -of
wreckage and wire and the charred
bodies of men and horses. The gov
ernor Is directing the firemen. Lady
Swettenham - Is - tolling with th
wounded. Th residence -of"the -- officer
commanding the troop I a total ruin,
but hla wife was dug out alive.
' ESTIMATES VARY
Contradictory Reports of the Mi ru
ber Who Perialird In Earthquake.
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Holland Bay, Jamaica,. Jan. 17. Es
timates of the number Of dead at KJnga
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Lady I sola Douglas Hamilton, Who
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OF WILD PEERESS
Wages of Sin Death for , Lady
Hamilton 7Ran Away From
. Home When Fifteen As
. Model Was Rage of Art World
.Was Snake Charmer. ,
(Beant News oVrrlte.) -New-
York, Jan. 17.--Beaut!ful Isola
Madinia Viola OougTlitss-Hamilton, sec
ond cousin of the Duke of Hamilton
and Brandon, the rage of the art world.
the girl wit, declared to possess the
most perfect figure of a decade, the
girl who today might be reigning over
almost any castle In England, has been
Identified positively by the British gov
ernment as the thin, old-womanish
ereature who died a month ago In the
Omaha poorbouse after eating live cha
meleons. - '
In 1 short years she had lived up to
the reputation given the house ot hor
kinsmen,, and after sacrificing - every
thing In the world for a few short years
of pleasure and misery, died a "Mad
Douglass." '
Blr Percy Sanderson, British consul
In New York, and Chief of Police Dona
hue of Omaha have completed the Iden
tification and now the disgrace of a
pauper grave will be obviated.
Into the little stretch or lire between
II and 14 Lady Hamilton crowded ' a
variation of sensational eplaodee and re-
i y
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17, 1907 EIGHTEEN PAGES.
PEERESS KILLED BY SNAKE DIET
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Care Up Society toBecome a' Snake Charmer -and Whoso Death Waa
-Caaaed y Swallowlnk LlwChemeJeon. k'y. ... . .
0. J. KENDALL DIED
A NATURAL DEATH
San Francisco Undertakers Used
Embalming Fluid Containing
Strychnine Alleged . to Have
Been Found by Portland Doc
tors, Who Enter Denial. .
Ghastly discoveries In connection with
th death of Oscar J. Kendall, a gov
ernment secret service operative, re
sulted In a. sensational story In. one of
Portland's dally paper yesterday alleg
ing that Kendall may have been pol
aoned tn Ban Francisco.
The alleged discovery was the fact
that a number-of the organs had been
removed from Kendall' body before be
ing ehlpped to this, city. It Is a, custom
commonly prsrtlced by undertakers' In
embalming bodies. Dr. Sandford Whit
ing and Dr. Mataon. who examined the
body. nre and were freely quoted in
the sensational ""fake," declare that they
made no such- statements a war attrib
uted to them.
Kendall died recently In Ban Fran
cisco of pneumonia and - menlngitla.
The alleged discovery waa made yea
terday by a Portland newspaper that he
had been secretly end foully poisoned
by some one who feared to be entrapped
by Special Prosecutor Heney. A dis
patch from Ban Frsnclsco to The Jour
nal today sayst .
"Kerntall's vital organa had been re
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ER0L.1 BUSINESS
Famous Financier Arranges Af
fairs So That Son Looks After
" Them and Withdraws From
Bank Has Only Investment
Stocks Upon His List Now. : ,
(Journal Special gervtre.)
New York, Jan. 17. J. P. Morgan haa
not been at hi ofllc since the holiday.
It I aid' -upon high authority that th
financier has placed his affair in such
hap that It- will not b necessary for
him In tne future to give bis personal
attention to the business of the banking
house. This will hereafter be In the
hand of J. P.-Morgan Jr. hi eon. who
since January 1 (i been practically
the head of both the New York and
London houses Morgan - remain th
senior partner, but will be a consult
ing rather than an active member of th
Arm.
Morgan Is nearly TO year old. but he
I n vigorous health, and both mentally
and physically Is aa alert aa h waa SO
years ago. lie hss really not been an
active factor in Wall street sine float
ing 'th United 8tatea Steel corporation,
which he regarded as the crowning
achievement of hi career. The North
ern Securities litigation tnrced him to
give serious attention to Northern Pa
cific affaire, but since th dissolution of
th Northern Securities company they
nd longer require personal attention.
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SpokaneSayy?ail
roads Are Guilty by
E vidence Produced by
TheirWitnesses.
Coast Ports Have Best of Case,
According to Their Attorneys
Northern Pacific Manager
Has Strange Lapse of Mem
ory Over Night. , .
(8pedal Dtepatefc to The JoorsaL) '
, Spokane, Waah, Jan. 17. Before In
terstate Commerce Commissioners Lane
and ' Frooty,-Brook Adams, ; attorney
for - the 8pokane jobbers, this morning
made allegation that the railroad hava
been guilty of entering Into a conspir
acy ag&lrutt the Spokane - territory In
rates, nd were therefore liable to
ekesge" and ' proswctrtTfm for "rlm!nal
eonsplracyv.wbich.Jla. punishable by
fins of $8,000 or two years in the peni
tentiary. He stated that tha. evidence
before the Interstate commerce eom
nlssl3rt Introduced by the railroads
themselves, conclusively showed thl to
be the fact ;
- In response to the allegation, Attor- -new
W. W, Cotton of the O. R. A N.
company ald that -the evidence showed."
that Spokane jobbers were more guilty
of conspiracy than the railroad In thla
matter, and that he would be only too .
glad to have the case go into the crtm-l
rnal courts. One of the first orders)
made by the commission this morning
was that the hearing muat be finished
todsy, a It had to be at Denver on the
twenty-first. . Coast jobber will Intro
duce no more testimony here, but will
make a further showing at Denver.
. Laps or Memory.
One feature of the morning session
was that when J. O. Woodworth, trafOo
manager of the Northern Paclflo. waa
recalled hi manner showed that he ha4
suffered a lapse of memory since testi
fying yesterday. He hsd to refer to
rat - sheets and other written data be
fore making reply to practically every ,
question.:. Spokane Jobber claim Wood- I
worth' evidence to be the beat yet
produced in favor of their claims. -
When Woodworth went on the staaa
this morning, showing by referring Ho
rat sheet constantly that be did not
Intend being eaught in a trap, Adam,
who waa examining him, displayed dis
appointment, and falling to compel th
witness to answer offhand, lost hla
tamper and a wordy war with attorney
for . the defendant followed, which
caused considerable excitement for tha
spectators. -
Ooaa xa Bert of It.
- Woodworth - said ' that it was not at
fact that the road got together when
the rate were being Hied, but on croaa
examlnatton admitted that he sometime
consulted with th traffic managers of
other roads, merely for the purpose of
getting new idea as to th condition
of the traffio department.
"As haa been expected. It was given
out definitely that no return a to tha
result of the proceedings will be toiad
until possibly April, It being the in
tention of the commission to sit lit
Washington, District of Columbia, for
the purpose of bearing argument of th
counsel representing all partte Inter
ested In the case. Attorney for coast
cities maintain that the evidence has)
shown conclusively that their claims are
right and-that they will win almost,
every point. - .
BALLINGER IS MADE
LAND COMMISSIONER
(Wiehlnrtoa Bera of Tle Joeraal )
" Washington; Jan. 17. The president -ha
offered the eommlsslonership of the
general land of flea to former Mayor
Bellinger of Seattle. He has sreepted
the place and will sssume his dytles on
March 4. .
FIND ARIZONA WOMAN
; DEAD IN CHICAGO HOTEL
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Chlcsgo. Jun. 17. Mrs. Pvlvter
Miinn, wife of a mining men of i;:b.
Arlsona, was found dra,l In tho lll.n -r I
hotel this morning. whre the
registered on C'hriimn ilar. Ti n po
lice are lavsstiaatln. Munn ' f i!
he was sbsent fiom ihi h'i.. u ;
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