The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1902, Page 1

'} FTHEE gt PRICE FIVE CENTS. MONT PELEE IS STILL ACTIVE AND DISASTER IMMINENT WHIILLE A PLAGUE IS THREATENED AT ST. PIERRE UNLESS | 1T ETRENCR TIAP PIiERRE N THE oNLY coPy i AT FRAINCISCO -- f;la;n;;:'s NStil?l 7R“ézg1'rng : Destroyed City. tral and southzrn parts of St. Pierre -arc still bitrning: C COUN. ORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, - May -12.—The . cen- i | i yside is deserted. Every-family ‘on the island trning the loss of relatives or. friends. 'Business is standstill. St. Pierre zvas the financial and provision- slai , and imore disastrous cruptions may foliozw. Volcanic Vincent. The authorities are doing cverything possible to relicve I'he means-at hand terribly inadequate.. . Unless are taken for the disposal, of the ‘tlhousands o} . Pierre a fearful plague 1s alinost certain to de- . stone houses had.stood." They.| all debris and the dead were min- e, declared tha: | gled with the ruins of the houses, the laya. | ase, and sent | and the wreckage swept down from the rs to preve a Refugees in the near-by | the inhabitants. Later ges face a. new :terrcr, due to the Pierre himself with his nds of putrefying-bodies.” They are stiuggling to get away, fearing an’epl- demic of disease. | Survivors say the loss to property will | be at least $30,000,000. 5 i Columns of stéam with ~occasional | flashes of flame were still coming: from x | Monte Peiee yesterday. and other | —_—— gees from St. Pierre. It reports St. | 2 T X oo % | CONSUL ‘AYMEE | who was at Fort de | the stron rst indications of erup- | wer POINT-A-PITRE, Gaudeloupe, May 12. ng vessel rteached here Trinity Bay, six miles | ssel left Mar- d afterward broug Plerre ex- | asked to send codfish, flour, beans, rice, t meats an@ biscuit as quickly.as pos- | sible. Visits of rehips valuable.” { LONDON, May 12.—The Colonial Office | | received the following dispatch to-day from Administrator Bell of the island of | Dominica, British West: Indies: nd plenty | «rhe Martinique case appears to be ¢ will be general | pyen more terrible than at first reported. : ivors who arrived from | Refugees arriving here this morning say Trinity Bay report that diers were | new craters are open in many- sections, able to enter St. Plerre Friday and Sat- | that rivers are overflowing and that larg, urdey. They found a state of ruin gnq | Areas in the north of the island are sub- devastation that incredible. Not a | merged. Other districts arc crowded with B on was dscovecsa hn.‘“vhcrcJsurvivnrs. Almost total _ darkness ‘con- Pie a the country for miles | : ma St. Pi ea over ana an me | REPORTS MUCH. | . a ations destroyed. i . ng when the ve NEED OF FOOD | artered to bring refugees o | b ’. € Numerous families of St May 12.-Becretary | i st before the disaster s veceived the following cable- | 3 gram, dated May 11, from United | The g & g - States Consul Aymee at Guide-] St. Leger broug g . e REORg NOepy ho went 1o Fort de France, Mar- | e s > disaster , by instructions from this Gov- | pong Messrs. Fernand, | e i Le Cle Plissoneau and | “The disaster is complete. The ‘city is | others e moking of Mont | Wiped out. Consul Prentis and his family | Peice Samiies it are dead. The Governor says 30,000 have | ERERset which acdoes g8 erished and 5,000 are homeless and hun- | that all the ived to-day reports | pry. He suggests that the Red Cross ‘nei‘ 1 royed are are without | er, and many d from their itiuble and un- Jess they can be of food giver suffer: them, there inues. iev: i, e A tinues. T do not believe Guadeloupe can adequately reileve the stupendous - dis- Scarcely u wall was left to show where | tress.” i 1:11 the | Mont Pclee is stiil in eruption -and cven.. || { { 1 against the wind on the islands of Dominica and . | PROMPT MEASURES BE TAKEN TO BURN BODIES OF VICTIMS — =, % AT BT MAP OF THE DESTROYED COMMERCIAL. METROPOLIS OF THE ISLAND OF IMARTINIQUE AND SCENES IN VICINITY P A —— PLAN OF ST. PIERRE SHOWS ‘WHERE BIG BUILDINGS STOOD HE accompanying plan of - St.: Pierve 'is ‘taken from a French Government chart of 1887. The city was divided in two_parts (connected by thre: bridges) by the riwer Mouillage—Le Fort on the north, where-were situatcd the custom-house, theater, barracks and other public buildings, with the famous Jardin des Plantes, and Le Mouillage ‘on the soutl in which were. the cathedral, where many perished; the grand promenade, naval hospital, business houses, factories and. wharves, among which was: the noted: sugar wharf, Place Bertin, Precheur, also destroyed-by a lava stream from Pelee, lay on the coast. five miles northeast of St.. Pierre. Carbet and’Case Pi(atc,_'whrrt 1rt'any took refuge, lic respectively three and' seven miles south of St. Pierre. Five Hundred Deaths Occur on St. Vincent. ORT DE, FRANCE, Martinique, | between 11 and 1 o'clock of the night of May 12.—The British = Royal | May 'S, a huge black mass of vapor hung Mail steamer Solent brought | over the volcano on St. Vincent and that awful mews from the British | the mountain was raining ashes, while island of St. Vincent. May § |there ~was a continuation of electrie and 9 a volcano there, the |flashes about the mountain top. A boat Soufriere, broke .into .violent . eruption. | from the Esk went, in toward the shore Mud, ashes, stones and fire were hurled | with mail, but had to return. into the town'of Kingston, the capital of | ROSEAU, Island of Dominica, B. W, I, the island, and over'the eountry. From | gynday, May IL—La Soufriere, on the isl- the meager reports obtainable here it is | ang of St. Vincent, has been in full erup- known that 500 deaths had occurred at | tjon since Wednesday last, Several plan- St..Vingent-up to -Friday night and that | tations have been destroyed. Earthquakes the volcano there ‘was still active at that | and loud reports accompanied the erup- titfle. tion, and stones and ashes fell at Kings- Hamilton de Lourey, a passenger from |ton. Many persons were wounded and the Reyal Mail steamer Esk, reports that | the bodies of 500 dead are unburied.