Cambridge Daily News 9 Feb 1907: Frank Freestone in Jamaica

Natives of Cambridge appear to penetrate to every corner of the globe. Hardly a disaster happens but the C.D.N. receives a description from a local man on the spot. Several Cambridge soldiers were in Jamaica at the time of the Kingston earthquake and we have now received a letter from Frank Thompson Freestone of Trumpington who was there when buildings began to fall all around him. He reports that bodies, burned and mutilated beyond recognition were carried to the sea where hundreds of sharks awaited them.

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