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was carefully patrolled, no one without a pass being permitted to 
enter. Throughout the shock the whites behaved with a consider- 
able degree of calmness, being without the unreasoning fear which 
characterized the blacks, yet none could reach the open too soon. 
Animals, wherever not thrown down by the shock, generally stampeded, 
horses, mules, and cattle being alike in this respect. 
Loss oj lije-—The loss of life on the island, as compiled from identi- 
fied remains and the list of missing, is officially given as 1,003, almost 
the whole number of casualties being at Kingston or vicinity. The 
high death list resulted from the fact that the shock occurred late in 
the afternoon when the stores and sidewalks were full of people. 
The loss in some of the stores was very large, that in the “ Beehive,” 
“Army and Navy,” ‘Waterloo House,” and “Croswell’s” being 
greatest. From 25 to 40 sometimes lost their lives in a single store. 
At the Jamaica Club 7 out of 9 were killed, while in other buildings, 
like the Colonial Bank, everyone escaped. Many lost their lives 
upon the sidewalks, crushed by the falling buildings. The loss was 
greatest in Port Royal Street, Water Lane, and vicinity, which was 
one of the most completely wrecked districts, the position of some of 
the streets being hardly distinguishable amidst the rubbish after the 
shock. Few people in this vicinity escaped uninjured. So great 
was the destruction and accumulation of débris that at the time of 
the writer’s visit, two months after the shock, bodies were still being 
recovered from the ruins. 
Outside the city and vicinity the loss of life was not great, although 
a few people among the mountains were killed by falling rock or 
landslides. Of the deaths many were instantaneous, but many per- 
sons were caught in the ruins and burned in the conflagration which 
followed the shock. ‘Twenty or thirty died subsequently from blood 
poisoning resulting from improperly dressed or neglected wounds. No 
epidemic of sickness has yet appeared. 
EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKE 
The results of the earthquake varied considerably according to 
the nature of the material constituting the surface at a particular 
point. Rock areas, alluvial fan deposits, and sand-spits are the 
principal types involved. 
