Shattered lives

1. Earthquake 1907	6. The eye-witnesses	(11. Insurance)
2. Kingston Burning	7. Media reports	12. Rebuilding
3. Injuries and deaths	8. Balloon view	(13. Scientific views)
4. Shattered lives 5. Shattered buildings	9. Governor Swettenham 10. The Memorial
		notes

I am still working on this site and I will probably add material to most pages as I find more information. The brackets indicate pages on which I have not yet done any work.
Joy Lumsden

		The Famous Jamaica Choir in Britain in 1907
		Like many Kingstonians, the members of the 'Jamaica Choir', who had toured the United Kingdom with enormous success in 1906, had suffered personally from the earthquake. Most had arrived back in Kingston just before the 'quake, or had not yet joined up with the choir. Several had narrowly escaped injury or death. However, they readily accepted the prospect of a return tour of the U.K., which in fact continued until the end of 1908. It is clear from news items and advertisements in British newspapers that their survival of the earthquake was an effective drawing card to the audiences in cities all over the country, who in any case had enthusiastic recollections of the previous year's performances.
	The Pier, Southend-on-Sea.	Southend Echo, July 3, 1907	The Pier, Southend, 1906
		. . . so, as in other respects, good could come out of the disaster of January 14, 1907!

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