The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1902, Page 17

P e e e e L R R e e S R R Pages 17 t0 28 +44 G 44444440 +44 Qre4 4444 B443333443555 3552000400 Pages 1710 28 R e R e e e e e e Qrrrtriree VOLUME XCI-NO. 162. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1902—=FORTY PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIRES BLAZE FIERCELY AT ST. PIERRE; ~ SOUFFRIERE THREATENS ST. VINCENT TRUPTION OF \ T VESUVIUS AFPRIL 287872 % - AS SEEN FROM \ > THE OBSIRVATORYN NEAR BY, ZHENGHEN: VERY IWEAR THE TIARTINIQUE OUTEREAK RS | | | | | VIEW OF DESTROYED TOWN WITH THE VOLCANO IN THE DISTANCE, AND VESUVIUS IN ACTION. | PERER Deadly Blasts [From the New York Herald’s Spe- cial Correspondent. Copyright, 1902, by the New York Herald Company.] ASTRIES, ST. LU- CIA, B. W. I, May 10.—It is certairn that the city of St. Pierre, Martinique, has been obliterated, with its 25,000 population, and other towns within the shadow From Mont Pelee Devastate Surt\'ounding‘ Country and Few of the Inhabitants Escape. | of Mont Pelee in all probability | have been razed by the flaming | gas and cinders and by redhot rocks and incandescent sand. At present all attempts at res- cue or investigation are practi- cally useless. Along four miles of the western coast of the island there is a bed of fire, and the sky is black with- smoke and haze. Passing vessels report that the 1 blanket of fire which fell upon St. Pierre appeared to be con- suming all the country for miles around. Since the rescue of thirty persons by the French cruiser Suchet it is not known that another person is left alive in St. Pierre, though it is hoped that more rescues may have been effected. It seems beyond doubt that the radius of destruction has SRR 1| involved at least 40,(;00 victims. They had no apparent chance to escape when the top of the moun- | tain exploded. 13 The belief is here that some | residents of St. Pierre must have | taken warning from the ominous actions of Mont Pelee for several days previous to the catastrophe and have sought refuge in the country. Even they may have ST PIEEE. for relief work in Martinigue. sons live there at this season. i iy ”,gmwau& ZL ZIC 7";‘25 TAHED T PROMPT RELIEF FROM AMERICA -AND FRANCE clBLE 8 to The Call from St. Lucia, the island next south of Martinique, where the chief disaster of May 8 occurred, say that Mont Soutfriere at 8t. Vincent is also in eruption and another disaster is feared. A wall of fire on. Martinique makes relief work for the present impossible. The Senate in Washington has passed a bill .appropriating $100,000 The French Cabinet in Paris has author- 1zed the Minister of Finance to extend all moneys necessary for the suf- ferers and an officer has sailed from Brest with $100,000. A cable from Senator Knight in Fort de France, island of Martinigue, says Morne Rouge, a suburb of St. Pierre, was spared. About 800 per- FReoTf /1898 DPEYONZ. Four American ships are believed to have been among the vessels destroyed in St. Pierre’s harbor. Cable communication with Fort de France, ten miles from St. Piérre, was opened Jyestgrday. The French cable com- pany's repair steamer Pourfere Quentier| landed at Fort-de France abou{ 500 persons she picked up in the harbor of St. Prerre. _ ' Great Britan will send a warship at once to Martinique. The United States cruiser Cincinnati has been ordered to the island and the training ship Dixie will go to Fort de France. People Who Flee From the Doomed Town Meet Awful Deaths in Places of Refuge. + been caught in the disaster \vhichI, The .volcano called Souffriere is so widespread. |(sulphur), in the ‘northwestern o of St. Vincent, is in sympa- Threaten_s St.Vincent ::::ic eruption, and on theynoll?th The island of St. Vincent is| gide of the island for a distance threatened with similar disaster, | of six miles there is a burning, and_ St. tucia lies midway be- | sizzling strip. tween these two volcanic centers.l Incandescent sand and redhot * cinders are falling on the fertile and well-populatéd valleys. All springs have been dried up and lakes are stecaming pits. Residents are dyingof burns and thirst, and many have been overtaken in Continued on Page Eighteen.