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“...filled with debris. Similar
scenes were being enacted all over the city, which for long after
the first shock was quite covered by a pall of dust. Fire assisted
in the work of destruction, and it is estimated that the loss of
life was between 1,000 and 1,500 persons, while that of property
was set down as from £1,000,000 to £1,500,000. Parliament
voted £150,000 and a loan of £800,000 for the relief of the
sufferers and for rebuilding, and Kingston has arisen phoenix-
like from its ashes a far finer city than it was before.
I...”
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