Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — WEST INDIES ARE FACING DISASTER [ARTICLE]

WEST INDIES ARE FACING DISASTER

Yale Says More Startling Catastrophes Will Occur Among the Island. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 14.—Before the Connecticut Association of Arte and Sciences Professor Addison Verrill, of Yale said: 1 ‘ The recent earthquakes in Jamaica are notbirfg to what is in store for the West Indies the next few years. The geological formations of the islands make it almost certain that some startling catastrophes will occur.” Professor Vemll, for years resided in the West Indies for the purpose of conducting exhaustive geological investigations into the island. He is the leading American authority on the subject