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Clyde Steamship Co. | “"FOREIGN SERVICE”’ | (S_teamers operated by the Clyde Steam- ship Ce., Foreign Service, for account U. S. Shipping Board. , IHES. S. “BOLI JAR” \ sailed from New. York on Sunday evan- i ing the 12th inst. and is due here on or | about the 19th inst., and will be dis- l patched for the Wiadward Islands. | ROB’T. L. MERWIN & Co. INc., | Agérucs. ‘ —_— LOCAL. | The S. S. **Bolivar’’sailed from New York on Sundasy evening having 32 tons of ecargo for Frederiksted and 57 tons for Christiansted. Tonight the new serial picture Dare Devil Juack will be started at the Chris- | tiansted Theatre. See advertisement on | previous page telling all about the heat | weight champion Jack Dempsey w: plays the chief role in this film. E e e { Steamship ‘‘Guiana’’ arrived at Fred- i eriksted last night and will sail for the | islands this afternoor Mails from the | States by this boa” lay be looked for : later today. { [ TEF EGRAMS. ‘ ST. CROIX STATIu. { I Kingston,Jamaica, Nov. 11th.—The ;. | \ ‘emor al to t e sons of Jamaica, | % " ir he ~reat war, was unveiled E b} - Governor at 10.45 a. m. to- | day, ...uadsta great concourse of peuple l representative of all classes. The princi- | pal stores were closed during the cere- ‘ mony. The memorial is in the form of | a stone cross rising from a base and steps | of the same material and placed in the | centre of a square paved enclosure sur- rounded by draws walls, which have openings on all four sides and patis lead- ing up to them. The total height from | the pavement to thz2 top of the cross is twentynine feet and the bottom is sixteen feat square. The second step bears in low relief the words ‘‘Their name liveth | forevermote’’. The upper portion of ‘ the base has eight panels in four of which are inserted marble and on the east is the inseripticn “‘ln memory of the men of Jamaica, who fell in the great war’’. It has been found impossible to engrave on the memoiral the names of all those, up- wards of one thousand, who gave their lives for their country and Empire, but these will be recorded in an account of | Jamaica’s part in the war, whichis bes- | ing prepared. | London, Nov. 12th.—A fire, which | started at the pert of Naples when blaz- | ing naptha spread over the harbour, | caused ten million lires damage, accord- & S 1 LBl A ViD " ir.g to th> Napl:s correspondent of the ’ Ceatral News. = London, Nov. 12th.—A Constantino- l ple despateh to the Times under todav’s [ date says it is understood permission . ! been granted to the French and Italia. Commissioners toagree to the declara- | ' i tion of a state of seize, as a preventative measure. The instructions, adds the ] correspondent, are so hedzed ab ut with ' conditions, as virtually to withhol? such ] declaration until it would bz too late. | Some pzople fear that the mym:2nt for | | such action has passed and that a declar- | i ation of a state of seige wolid b 2 moge | likely to precivitate a conflict. i l Birmingham, Nov. 12th. -Lord Birken- | head, sp2aking at o Unionists rally here, f declared th~* '~ .I.oyd George wis not | a uoleado, as sym: pa2ople supposed. | Lord Bickenh2al adlel that Mre. Aus- ] ten Clamberlain esuld have b2en Prime | Minister, if his e2ascienc? hizi alloved | him to take tnat post, but he ha’ taken i the view that tae interests of a2 - | try and the E npire ware best serve. oy : l th- close assocziation of all the forces that | »od against extreime counsels. | Santilzo, Chile, Nov jl2:h Vith par- | ‘ t. | establishment of con nuanicitions the ! Chile earthquake catastrophe is revealed | in even greater magnitude chan at first | l reported. It is estimated that at least | 1,000 are dead and many thousanl, are | } in distress, needing food and shelter. ? 1 Santiago, Chile, Nov. 12th.—An earth- | l quake of great magnitude and far-spread | eff 2ct rocked Chile fron end to <nd yes- l | terday. 1t was accompanied by a tidal | | wave and the ceomhinad foree of the l | earth tremors and and the sweep of the | i water did vast damage, th2 extent of | which it is impossibie to estimate be- l f ~ause telegraghic lines were carried | lown {at various places, cut‘ing off ccm- ; ‘ janication. The provinc2s of Antofa- | | . asta, Atacamna and Coquimbe, suffered | niost, the central poinis of the quake lying in the latter two provincaes, and | so far as advices show, Copiapo in Atae- ‘ ama, has the largest cisualsy list with about 100 Kkilled and many seriously | jnjured. It was for g itime soared | that the city of Antofazasta had suf- ! sered a grzater disaster, but most of the | damage at that plac2 was due 0 a ti- | I cal wave, which drove the people from | their homes over a considerabiz area. No report of loss of life has come from there. Chanaralin Atacama, has | virtually been abandonrd by the inhab- l itants, as many buildings were wrecked by the immense seas sweeping in when the quake had ceased. The central part | of this town was destroyed. Through- . out the province of Coquimbo hundreds | of houses were levelled, while the | residents fled to the hills. At the port | of Coquimbo a tidal wave beat over the | entire seafront, floodinga large section | I and wrecking many buildings. From - the southera part of Chile come reports | ' of severe shocks but little damage. Another earthshock was felt here at 4.45 o’clock on Saturday afternoon. It was of an intense character during its duration. Coquimbo, Chile, Nov. 12th.—One hun- dred persons were drowned, when a tidal® ~ve, coming after the earthgock, . swept in with a grea®&roar. The&habi- tants were panic-strick@ =3 ran to™he hills. The advance of tßgsea was ac- companied by electrical disggarges. Two steammers were left high ajd dry when the water receded. The m@e and rail- way depots were destroye Quantities of merchandise were scati@red through the streets along the water§front. Coquimbo, Chile, Nov. IZth. The port of Coquimbo was awakened at 11 55 un Friday night by violent earthshocks and in a few minutes the populace was run- ning about the streew in terror, only partially clothed and S:2eking rhe hills. The vanic was increased when the elec- tric lights went og¥in some parts of the town. Coincident with the shocks the sky was illuminated by electric dis- chasges and fire broke out. After the first shock the sea receded for a consider- able distance and then swept back in an immense wave, extending from Coquim- bo to Ia Serens, sasven miles to the north east, flooding the town and the whole coast line and don:dam g The tinal wave added to the terrors of the people, many of whom cried out for aid. Again the sea receded for a distance of 300 yards beyond the low tide mark, then seemed to gather force and come back in an iinmense wave, estimated at 50 yards in height, which compietely des- troved the Baquedano quarter. A numte: of lighters were picked ug like chips and carried bgyond the railway bridge, which is five blocks from the low tide mark. In Antofagasta upwards of one hundred persons were Killed and many seriously wounded by the earthquake, which over- turned many buildings early yesterday in Copiapo, capital of the province of Atacama. 1 Santiago de Cuna, Chile, Nov. 12th.— - The report of the seismographical insti- ~ tute says that the appar2nt focus o the i earthquake shoek was 23 kilo netre= from ~ Santiago. The intersity of the wmove- ~in2nt was recorder between numbers 8 - and 9of the oificial seale, which runs up . to 12. The total duration was 3 hours t and 40 miautes and the estimated radius 1,200 kilometres in transversal direction | to the Adnes. The Metieorological Insti- l tution says that the shoeks coincided | with the passing of a sun spot over tae Central Meri l:an of the sun. The earth- . quake commenced at the terminaticn of ' a day of abnormal heat. The sun spot - referred to made its appearance on ~ November sth and was the largest ob- erved this year. Conswantinople, Nov. 12th.—Constan- ~ tinople may b likened to a vast powder - magazine, which the British are striving . in the face of growing difficuitizs, to keep .rom igniting. Ce: eral Hurington [ E 4