The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCI-NO. 160. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 9, PRICE FIVE CENTS. ST. PIERRE, WITH 20,000 DEAD, UNDER THE LAVA — | I. THOMAS, D. W. L, May 8, 7 P. M.—The British steamer Roddam, Captain Freeman, which left St. Lucia Wednesday for Martinique, | returned there at 5 o’clock this afternoon, bringing a report that the town of St. Pierre, Martinique, has been totally destroyed by vol- w canic disturbances in the island. Almost all the inhabitants of St. Pierre are said to have been killed. The Roddam reports that all the 1 shipping in the port has also been destroyed. The Quebec Steamship Company’s steamer Rorima is mentioned as lost, with all on board. The Roddam was almost completely wrecked. Her captain was seriously burned and seventeen of her crew are dead. CABINET TO LOSE MEMBER| Secretary Root Now 1 Expected to Soon || Retire. | Dissatisfied With the | Events Concerning Philippines. Further Testimony Is | Heard About the || “Water Cure.” 0 G May STRE £.—Secretar £ th of the methods pur- Samar and rather sur- T the Republican mem- stion hgs nat- ThE SUGAR LANPING~ ST FERRE o e e | A wiful Stream s From Mount Pelee. o e oot | People Perish in Deadly e | the disposition is War is to | Secretary of oval of the Bell- | s been no dispo- s h “kill and T ‘ : . orrert. cized it and have ¥ s ALL BUREAU, 1406 { G STREET, ‘N. W, ‘ WASHINGTON, D. | C., May . 8 —Aduvices ”'Ll‘l"i"‘:::_jrax11e to-day . from. Louis H. - Secre- | Ayme, United States Consul at WILL BE ACQUITTED. T f Smith court-martia! No one doubts pointed out Mass., Twen- d be- He | reporting ‘that seismic disturb- |ances had occurred there, said that he had been informed that hundreds of people had been killed in and about Martinique. Guadaloupe and res wer the Americans S longing to France. Consul Ayme reported that telegraphic com- with Martinique ! were broken in every direction. | He said also that great conster- nation prevailed in the vicinity munications who was said there was no f the parties. He also d treatment accorded ANY CAUSE. sald that while doing the island of Panay, he y of wealth feuten- where and three WITHOUT be and earthquakes = tivity. e house of L Infantry, Glenn Loud noises were heard con- ascribed to volcanic action. Guadaloupe recently suffered ter- ribly from an earthquake Only last month hundreds of lives were 5 {lost in Guatemala from the same » surrender. ning placed the first oc- | Cause. water cure admin- | = s . and of Panay. Hesaa| LONDON. May 9.—A dis- > supposed to haf patch to the Daily Mail from St. murder of Private| .. R Gregg ordered wit- | Pierre, Martinique, dated Thurs- r him to apply ‘helday, says that the eruption of Pelee continues. = The e : Guerin factory was overwhelmed 1 ok no action. s % SENATORS STILL TALK. | with boiling mud on Monday. of the Philippine bill in the | Twenty-four persons are’ known y. while scarcely abated | ¢ s=, 100k on an amusing phase. | tO have been killed. cech Dolliver of Towa made | A dispatch to the Tindes from atured and yet such a sar- | . ment of Carmack of Ten. | St. 1homas, dated Thursday, jors and occupants ot | savs that smoke and fire from St. | Vincent are visible from St. Lu- cia. It is reported that the cra- alleries were convulsed ters on the island of Dominica cure, apparently The witness described houses during a march told of the act of their cutting off the head of a a bolo before the troops cause. requested that the | Mont Lopez be summoned. While seemingly consid- s aroused by the debate, Continued on P.\ke Five. \ } Guadaloupe, ®ho, in addition to | Martiniqne | are neighboring islands, both be- | of his post in consequence of the! ¥ | the last thirty years the principal city volcanic ac-| tinuously, ke said, and these were | Many {/essels Are Also Sunk. Whole City Is Buried by Volcano. < ek are showing signs of activity. De- tonations are audible in all the northern islands. DOOMED CITY OF ST. PIERRE. Modern Pompeii Recently Had Popu- lation of 23,500. St. Pierre, formerly the second but for and part of the island of Martinique; had by late census a population of about 23,- 500 souls. It is situated on the northwest coast of the island, about fifteen miles above Fort de France, the capital. It was founded in 1635 by Esnambac and is one of the most picturesque citles in the whole West Indies. Its botanical gar- dens are among the finest in the world. It lies on a bight of the northwest coast of the island, where the slopes of Mont Pelee and the three-crested Cabret come together at the sea. The warehouses and factories lie on the small piece of flat ground next to the sea, while the resi- dences are up on the hillsides. It has no harbors, properly speaking, but the road- stead is well protected by the island itseif except on the west and southwest. The country around is very populous, as is in fact the whole island, on some parts of which there are more people to the square mile than even in the thickly set- tled industrial centers of England or Belgium. Sloping up from the city on the north- east and the southeast respectively, at a distance of five miles, Mont Pelee and the three-crested Cabret culminates in sharp peaks some 4450 feet in height, clothed with verdure to the very points, Mont Pelee, though generally quies- cent, was in a state of eruption in the year 1851, when much damage was done. The whole island is covered with moun- tains set with numerous cones all at one Continued on Page Five. RUARTE RzE TICTOR F 7770 ST Frrrs- IDEMAND - FEDERAL . INQUIRY THE FORT ST FUIERRE | Eureka Citizens Make | Charges of Cor= ruption. | %Collector of the Port , Is Vigorously ‘ Accused. || Politics in Humboldt Brews Big Sen- sation. TR | Speeial Dispateh to The Call. | EUREKA, May &—The opponents of | the ring that has so long shaped the po= | titical history of Humbeldt County are “carrying the war into Africa” and the boasted plans of Sterling A. Campbell, Collector of the Port of Eureka and a leading spirit of the ring, to send 2 Gage delegation to the State convention, re- gardless of the will of the people, seems certain to be knocked sky high. Campbell has been formally charged | with corruption and ofensive partisanship { &ndl ks removal by the Federal authorities | demianded. Affidcvits accompanying the | charges throw light upon the littie boss' conduct of affairs in his own little prinel- pality. The complainant is A. H. Buhne, Councilman, and his allegations are straight from the shoulder. The com- plaint was sworn to April 30 and at once forwarded to Washington and with it were* sent affidavits by State Semator i | Thomas H. Selvage, W. T. S. Hadley, Arthur W. Hill, Stephen Hill and Willlam N. Speegle, all of whom support by their allegations the charges made by Buhne. The affidavit made by Senator Selvage and published yesterday by Councilman | Buhne in connection with the sewer pipe | scandal was one of the documents sent to Washington with the charges. It had no | connection whatever with the sewer pipe affair and its use to discredit Buhne's op- | ponents in the Council is regarded as ll- | | advised. In addition to the direct charge of an attempt on Campbell's part to hold up the telephone company, Selvage gives | | some inside political history that has set the county agog and is certain to have { | important bearing on State politics. He | | alleges as follows: INSIDE MANUEVERS. That afflant on the Zlst day of March, 1901, wrote a letter to George C. Perkins, United | | States Senator from the State of California, | | indorsing J. ¥. Thompson for reappointment o | | the office of Recetver of the Land Office at Bu- | | reka, cal. At the same time said Sterling A. | | Campbell was a candidate for reappointment to the officz of Collector of the Part. That | said Camobell was reappointed to said office i | about the — day of December, 1901. That as soon as he was reappointed he joined with | one C. S. Milnes in presecuting charges against Thompson and used every endeavor to prevent SCENES AT ST. PIERRE, ISLAND OF MARTINIQUE, WHICH IS REPORTED TO HAVE SEEN TOTALLY DE- STROYED BY VOLCANIC DISTURBANCES. MONT PELEE IS STILL IN A STATE OF ERUPTION AND MAY CAUSE FURTHER DISASTER ON THE ISLAND. : his reappointment. That I was invited to the office of the Collector of the Port to meet him | regarding the matter. That he told me at that | time that T must witbdraw my support of Thompson and write letters to Semators Bard HE steamship Newport, which! arrived yesterday from Pan- ama and way ports, was at La Libertad on the night of April 18, when the republic of Guate- mala was shaken up from end to end by a series of terrific earthquakes. The shock was felt aboard the Newport, but it was not until Ocos was reached that those on the steamship had any idea’| of the seriousness of the situation. Further inland, according to cable- grams received here and reports heard in Ocos by the officers of the Newport, the damage was terrific and the loss of life large. In Ocos itself, however, there was more than epough evidence of the fright- ful convulsion that had swept the land and left death and destruction in its path. The land upon which Ocos stands ' was converted by the subterranean disturb- ance into a heaving sea of land and houses. The earth rolled up in three dis- tinct waves, which still rear their crests where they stood. when the convulsion ceased. Between each wave is a_wide, | shapen mass of badly tangled angles. deep crack, and the earth in every direc- tion is serried by openings of apparently soundless depth. ‘4 : GIVES UP GHOST OF SHIP. There is not a house in Ocos left stand- ing on its foundation. . The river banks were squeezed together and the stream is now, twenty feet nar- rower than before. The bed of the Tiver gave up the ghost of a wreck that disappeared in the mud five years ago. The spot has long been pointed out as the grave of a sunken ves- sel, but there was no sign visible to in- dicate that it was still there. When the earthquake came and squeezed the river banks together it forced the wreck from the mud and returned it, high and dry, to the land of the living. ¥ The raliroad bridge across the river was telescoped by the contraction of tha banks, and the wharf, which was Ocos’ pride, now stands a monument to the earthquake's ruthless strength, a mis- MIGHTY CREVASSES SHOW | THE EARTHQUAKE’S FORCE Newport Brings Details of Upheaval That Raises Earth in Great Waves and Spreads Death and | | I ‘ceived some days ago. | terrible experience has taken the heart | out of the bravest. | and Perkins and Congressman Coombs indors- ing John Bull for the ition. I toid him that I could not do it without stultifying myself and that 1 would not do it. At that time I was a candidate for Congress from the First Congressional District and Campbell informed me that unless I did as he suggested in the matter that the support of the machine of Humboldt County would be given to my oopoment. I told him he was asking me to do a dishonorable thing and I would not for the sake of the office or for any other consideration do what he asked me. We bad a number of meetinzs, both in his office and in mine, In which he sought to force me to withdraw my indorsement of Thompson. I tol3 him I had no interest in Thompson's fight and that I would not interfere with it. He informed me that that was not what they wanted. He said that in order to prevent Thompson's reappointment Senator Perkins Thousands of people - have been rendered homeless, | MUst be reached, and that I was the only one " | through whom he could be reached, as I was however, an 5t et SRRERSIbY e a hold-over Senator and he was looking for re-election. 1/told him that Semator Perkins would not A GIRL’'S EXPERIENCE. place a very high estimate on any promise of Captain Saunders says that he felt the | Support of mine should I treat Thompson as shock very distinctly. The Newport was | he (Campbeil) desired me to. He sald pos- lying ‘at. La Libertad. He was in the | sibly it would be a good thing to bring Senator cabin. = The ~vessel shook from stem to| Perkins to time and give him to understand stern and he sent word to the chief en- that he would not get any votes from Hum- gineer, asking him why he found it neces- | boldt County unlets he took the position dic- 3 tated by Bull and Campbell. He further stated sary to turn over the engines at that time oy it o TSR L NP the Gkt =g | that Bull was very angry against me and said g quaking ceased | ;. whenever he had asked me to do any- he had found out that something more! ;ing he had found me on the other side. He powerful than the Newport's engines Was | (nep told me that If T failed to accede to Bull's responsible for the vibration. Frequent | wishes that Bull would spend no end of money shocks ‘'were experienced all along: the | to defeat me for the nomination. coast, and when Ocos was reached he got | The quarrel between Bull, Campbell, Thomp- Cunfix‘l;x;d (;n Page Five, Ruin. In Ocos the loss of life in the republic is estimated at 200, which is considerably lower than stated in the cablegrams re- Continued on Page ’l;t