The Archive · 1902

APPALLING, DEVASTATION

London vid Bombay,.15th May All the northern district of Georgetown, St. Vincent, has been devastated. A similar state of affairs exists at St. Pierre, Martinique. Practically every. living thing has been killed, the details. being too harrowing to describe. All the best sugar estates in the Carribean area have been devastated, and the managers, owners, and their families, with those of others of the better class have been killed. It is estimated that two million tons of dust have fallen in Barbados—Reuter.

[Barbados is situated about 95 miles east of St. Vincent.—Ep. N.-C. D.

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