The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 24, 1902, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1902. LAVA 'NOW COVERS THE RUINS OF THE DESTROYED TOWN HORRORS OF THE ISLAND ARE INCREASED BY RUINS LOOK A HUNDRED YEARS OLD Search Is Impossible’ Under Present Conditions. P | #fort de France Still Safe, but People Are Panicky. TFrom the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1902, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. | St. Lucia cCormick, 1 the May Lieu- who arrived Potomac last night, made an unsuccess- > land at St. Pierre | orning. On the Po- | time were the Ameri- | who went to Martinigue the direction of the Since the more t Pelee the entire | 1as changed. Lava | re city, effacing all | en the appearance of having | r hundreds of years. It ssible to make further search | lapsed into | Iy b3 tomac ran through the road- rent was discernible in the f t volcano. In it lava | over the hills to the | to th »ft Fort de France it the panic bitants. Ever ned eruption Mon- as raged. Electric force have been al- | and it is feared that an | occur among the hundreds | a French crulser with a | ission, arrived at Fort de WILL NO T EVACUATE. I Council of Martinique Decides to Stick to the Island. PARIS, A dispatch received rnor of Martinique, ads as follows; | the council of the 1 or total evacuation are unanimous in de- | ot justifiable at | -Atlantic line steamship | here might be | who are de- | About 1000 persons | | | | | ar he steamer Versailles, and other s on the Ville de Tanger i rinidad Cayenne. There have be new fatalities.” IS WELCOMED BY PEACEFUL CITIZENS Commander of the Army of the North | in Hayti Reaches Port au | Prince. [ J PRINCE, May 2.—The Hay- | Crete-a-Plerot arrived here | ded Antenor Firmin, the | r at Paris, who was re- | FIRMIN anced until within two f Port au Prince. He was hetic reception. r appears to have ¥ 22 —The following | mander Nickels of received at the‘ cated Port au Prince, | Port au Prince, CHILE AND ARGENTINA SETTLING QUARRELS Negotiations Between the American Republics Are Now Nearly Completed. | | AISO, Chile, surce, 1 am May 28.—From a | able to tell negotiations with Argentina tisfactorily settled within the or three dsy The Chilean- ntina agreement covers the following ration for all kinds of con- | on-intervention by Argentina fle has pending with Peru and ird—Both republics are to give to the | rbitrators every facility to ren- | on the boundary question | nt vear. blishment of the naval | ublic on an equal foot- | n both countries. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE | OF THE PACIFIC COAST Changes Are Made in the Postal Ser- { vice Three Coast States, WASHIN The Postoffice of the Army of the | | South | | The | | gh explosives stored back | | g | .- QUEZALTENANGD ation of the above agreement 1e{ LOWN in Guatemala Is to the Hamburg Boersenhzlle from ,Guate- m: ango has been wholly destroyed by an TMARTINIQUE WwWITH TORT PE ETRAEINCE THE CcAPITAI SATFIICFL TS TTOW THREATENED VOLCANO AS IT APPEARED BEFORE THE TERRIBLE ERUPTIONS AND THE RUIN WROUGHT. BY THE RAIN OF FIRE. SCIENTISTS FEAR A ‘WORSE OLIBREAK ORT DE FRANCE, May 23.—It is now the unanimous opinion of the scientists that Mont Pelee is an explosive volcano, no real lava or moya rock mate- rial having been emitted, only mud, steam, gases and fragments of the old crater-beds. The scientists compare the mountain’s out-throw to the steam of a boiler in which the pressure rises to bursting.point, and they think it possible that a more violent outbreak may occur. They remark that the explosions have occugred at progressively longer intervals, and that they ‘also have been progressively more violent. . There have been three light eruptions of "ashes. On May 5 there was an overflow of mud, which caused the déstruction of the Usine Guerin; on May 8 there was the outburst which destroyed St. Pierre, and on May 20, or after an interval of twelve days, tlie last, tremendous outbursts occurred. A new period of rest is’ now on, and one of two things may happen: the pressure may be confined for a still longer period and then explode with still greater violence, spreading destruction over a vast area, or the mountain may remain WATER SWEEP3 UPON PROPERTY Great Damage and Loss of Life Reported in Iowa. L ¥ - NANT CARDINAL FOR THE PLACE New Yorkers Talk of Successor to Late - Archbishop. ten days ago said that a second convul- sion, much more violent than the one a couple of weeks earlier, had thrown down a large part of Quezaltenango and killed { €000 people. Quezaltenango seemed to be | destined to meet the same fate that be- | feil Old Quatemala (Ciudad Vieja) in 1541, j\\'hen it was entirely overwhelmed by mile from the torrent, was swept away and an old man drowned. Between Conover and Decorah. a dis- ance of nine miles, seven miles of track owned by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road was washed out. Sixteen iron bridges in and about Decorah “were destroyed. The stream which overflowed its banks runs through a portion of the residence district and the railroad district of the town and great damage was _done to private and railroad property. There were six washouts between Austin and Preston, on the open prairie. Ten miles of track was destroyed on the Iowa and Minnesota division of the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul railroad. Gregg says thé damage at Decorah was estimated at $600,000. Houses were wash- ed from foundations and people residing on the flats fled to the hills for safety. More loss of life is feared, as all points have not been heard from. At Fort At- kinson, eleven cars were washed into the stream and loss of stock is reported throughout the count earthquake and flood from Mount Agun (water), which, with its consort, Mount Fuego (fire), " overlooked it, ‘and -of the second city, Antigua, which rose near in its stead to be likewise destroyed by the terrific earthquake of 1773. | Quezaltenango, the second capital of | the republic and largest city after Guate- | mala, the capital, lies in the Altos (high) 1¢glon, thirty-five miles northeast from its” port, Champerico, on the Pacific | Ocean. "It “occupies an extensive space 7740 feet above the level of the sea, on a billy plateau, south of which rises the never slumbering volcano of Cerro Que: mado. Tt had until the disturbances of a few weeks ago 24,000 inhabitants and was the capital of a' province of the same name, with an area of %7 square milos ENTIRELY AAZED Destroyed by the Earthquake. | HAMBURG, May 23.—A special dispatch | ST. PAUL, Minn., May 23.—The entire northeastern portion of Towa is half sub- | merged by the recent heavv rains and immense financial losses have been sus- ROME, May 2.—The Vatican is dis- cussing the possibility of the archdlocese of New York sending in the name of Archbishop Ireland in ala says that the town of Quezalten- Department to-day announced: Postoffice | sarthquake, which lasted three-quarters|20d & bDopulation of 104,800, ~The houses | tained. the mames of Bishop O'Donnel] ag Brr it plished, oiitornia—Dorrington, Cal-| of a minute. Business 1s entirely sus- | OF thE city were bullt of lava blocks quar- | Jesse A Gregg of St. Paul has returned | Huntington Fund for a Hospital. |iyn and Auxillary Bishop. Ton, o P o fixzixr{fil?ix-‘_li{"ffy:l | pended in Guatemala and a great part of | 1y ix the center of a rlc‘;‘f:":‘-cuu y from the inundated district, and reports| NEW YORK, May 23.—Mrs. C. P. Hunt- | of New York as-candidates from whom ific County. mail to | the crop there has been destroyed. Gistrict and the metropolis of tge wes;‘:;;n great destruction of property. On ‘Wed- | ington has offered $100,000 to the General | the propaganda shall select a successor to s commissioned: | WASHINGTON, May 2.—The earth-|provinces of Guatemala. It was the resi-|Nésday morning over six inches of rain| Memorial Hospital for the treatment of | the late Archbishop Corrigan. The beliet 3 dner, Dorrington. | quake reported in the Hamburg dispatch jdence of most of the great land owners | fell in two hours. The water formed in | cancer and allied diseases for patholog- |in ‘this possibility is based on the fdea Oregon- A‘;“fi.‘ryflu;v,y“?\lu;l Washington | as resulting in the destruction of the :n"g ::a;h;;sr?giri FT;]- ulue money lenders, | the low places until all barriers were | ical pursuits. The announcement of the | that the Catholics of the archdiocese are Orepon AR o ey Appolnted: | city of Quezaltenango, Guatemala, was | (1€ Feal Masters of the land. dts climatd | overflowed and then rushed down ' the | offer Is made in the annual report of the [3mbitions to ‘have a Cardinal as the Vice J. 1. Read. resigned. Warnirounty. | jdentified here as that which really oc-|fne church buildings, with \yerlahY | creek beds and ravines, pouring a great | president of the hospital, John B. Par- | ARRUSMOD. o o Mis Jessie K. Nosler, Paierny oo curred on April 18 and which has been | Beoots. ots g yeeums, | torrent info a stream called the Dry | Sons. Parsons said Mrs. Huntington had | | S0 FOTR. JIay H—Tather Lavelle, Comity Wite Chinrios 12 . Okanogan | Gescribed to some extent in the American | > Tia wratnful and proposed to put this sum at the disposal i S aAthedral, this r, resigned. Washington— | { Woman Tossed by a Bull, | SALINAS, Mas Mrs. Jose Gomez | ngerousl d by an infuriated the Gomez ranch near here yes- terday. Mrs. Gomez forgot to remove & | on she was wearing when she went | rral to milk the cows. A bul | th corral caught sight of the | 1 and T into the air several times before as- Elstance reached her. Her injuries are | Dot belleved to be fatal newspapers. partially @estroyed. The Guatemalan au- thorities have decided to reconstruct the city of Quazeltenango on a plan some dis- tance fromthe site of the original place. | Reports regarding the destruction of life are incompléte, but they indicate that at < jeast severaljthousand persons were killed rushed upon her, tossing | and that the property loss approximates $50,000,000 in the April earthquakes. Advices recA}'ed from Guatemala some Rock, running through Decorah and other dangerous neigh| B NoOr: | towns in the vicnity. Streots became . Information received here | Cerro Quemado, is 10,250 foet high. bas iy of the hospital and that It her intention | 5%, okt hore "wxpress e mih (hC5S uatemalan legation sh tin i t, the gift would in authority here express the wish B Ras wholly Acstroved Snd inat | S0 Tay Vresguts the aspects of a’typical | passable and, owing to the high wind, the e ey roats it e archdiocese of New York be Dresided Ban Marcos and several other towns were | 1< Great eruption of 1ous amprmetry, during | situation for three hours was one of great Qer by, & Sdrdinall’ Puthér Lavelle sai entire that since the death of Archbishop (oot gan the only question considered gv:som, seiection of names to be presented to the Pope for his action. It was pointed out also that the initiative in the creation of a Cardinal rests with the Vatican. peril to every one. As far as Gregg could learn, only two lives were lost. A mother aroused by the encroachment of the water into the house, leaped from her bed in the dark, with her child In her arms, and apparently went out doors. The child fell Into the water and in the darkness the mother was un- able to locate the little one, who was drowned. A large egg warehouse, located a half- terminal cone was blown away. —_— ‘With Ten Millions Capital. ALBANY, May 2.—The American Ma- chine and Ordinance Company of New York City was incorporated to-day with a capital of $10,000,000 to manufacture and deal in guns, ammunition and other ord- nance Shutting Out Cartel Sugar. SIMLA, Indla, May 23.—With the object of preventing India from being flooded with “cartel” sugar, a bill has been intro- duced in the Indian Council, empowering the. Indian Government to. impose coun- tervailing duty on bountied sugar until the Brussels Conventlon becomes effec- tive. Sugar shipped prior to May 23 will be exempt. —_—— BOONEVILLE, Mo,, May 23.—Chas. Reeves, allas “‘Spinner,”’ was hanged here to-day for the murder of his wife February 24 last T‘:rn(y-flve ‘Missouri Sheriffs attended the exe- cution. \ \ OF ST. PIERRE: TERRIFIC ELECTRIC STORMS SENDS OUT FIERY RAIN ON ISLAND e el 'Mont Pelee’s Fury Still Prevents Approach. No Serious Explo- sions, However, Since Tuesday. From the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York He-- ald. Copyright, 1902, by the New York Herald Publishing Company. IORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, May 23.—Returning from San Juan, Porto Rico, to-day, the Herald and syndi- cate newspaper rellef boat, the E. M. Luckenbach, sailed full fifty miles through the heavy cloud of ashes. Passing St. Pierre, Mont Pelee was seen in violent eruption. It would have been a dangerous undertaking to have run within a mile of the landing, and to have gone ashore ‘would have been to court destruction. When the E. M. Luck- enbach arrived at Fort de France her decks were deeply carpeted with ashes. Panic still continues here and the fright- ened inhabitants clamor for the privilege of leaving this island of terrors. There seems, however, to be no immediate dan- ger, for while the volcano has been ac- tive during the entire week, there has been no serious explosion since Tuesday morning. The French cruiser Tage is engaged in landing the relief supplies which she brought here from New Orleans. The steamer Santo Dominque from Porto Rico brought here to-day consigned to Consul Ayme, fifty tons of provisions sent on board that vessel by Govefnor Hunt in the name of the New York Her- ald. The vessel also brought 100 tons of supplies from the Martinque relief com- mittee of Porto Rico. The people are more desirous of transportation out of the lsi- and than of any other rellef which can be offered them. POINTE A PITRE, Guadeloupe, May 22.—At this distance, more than 100 miles, the flaring lights from Mont Pelee in Martinique could be seen last night. It had the appearance of a gigantic torch burning in the sky. Occasionally the fire would die down only to flare up again brighter than ever. Long after the flash would come a deep detonation that could be plainly heard. Rain is falling and a terrible electric storm continues. The sea is tossed by a force from below that causes waves of almost tidal proporticns. psiiriiay Ao STILL LEAVING MARTINIQUE. Many Families Glad to Seek Refugs on Other Islands. FORT DE FRANCE, Island of Mar- tinique, Thursday, May 22.—At § o'clock this afternoon the sky was clear and the population was calm, but despite this fa- vorable change in the situation many families left Fort de France by the French steamer Versailles, and the Vills de Tangler for the island of Trinidad and Cayenne, French Guiana. This, with the 1200 persons who have gone to the island of Guadeloupe, and many others who have sought refuge at St. Lucla and other islands, has lessened the popula- tion considerably. Besides these some 2000 people have left for the southern parts of the island of Martinique, where 3000 refugees have now assembled. This desertion of Fort de France has resulted in the disorganization of many trades. A number of bakers have been compeiled to close their stores, owing to the fact that their employes are among those who have fled. The French cruiser Tage, which left New Orleans with money and supplies for the sufferers, having Admiral Servan on board, arrived here this afterncon. She reported that Mont Pelee now presents more assuring prospects. The clouds of smoke leaving the crater mingle with the clouds in the sky and do not have the threatening aspect they formerly had. A new crater has formed in the vicinity of Ajoupa Bouillon. A locality known as Camae Trione Is causing a good deal of anxiety at pres- ent. The Capote River is running with hot water. The French cruiser d’Assas has ar- rived here from Brest, having on board the French Government relief commis- sion and large supplies of money and provisions. A torrential downpour of rain in the morning washed off the ashes from the vegetation on the mountain. The United States steamer Potomas made her usual trip to St. Plerre to-day with another party of scientists. She found the conditions there unchanged from yesterday. The top of the moun- tain was clearly visible for a consider able time. Captain McLean of the cruiser Cincinnati, who was carefully ob- served Mont Pelee, agreed with other experts in reporting that a new erater has been formed below the old one. In the new crated there Is a great cinder cone, more than a hundred feet high, from which steam and volcanic matter is constantly pouring. MILES CANNOT ACT WHEN ROOT IS ABSENT President Revokes an Order Giving the Commanding General and Corbin Authority. WASHINGTON, May 23.—The President has revoked the old executive order of August 29, 191, by which the lieutenant general commanding the army (General Miles) and the adjutant general (General Corbin) in turn are to assume the dutles of Secretary of War in the absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary. The President's order of revocation, which is dated yesterday, leaves the de- partment without a head in the event of the absence of the Secretary and Assist- ant Secretary unless such head is spe- cifically designated on each occasion. Both the Secretary and Assistant Secretary were absent to-day, but Secretary Root, before he left this morning, issued a spe- cial order designating his chief clerk, John 0. Schofleld, to act during his absence. Editor of Epworth Era. DALLAS, Tex., May 2.—At to-day's session of the M. E. Chureh, South, H. M. Dubose was elected general secretary of the Epworth League and editor of the Epworth Era. P. J. Bingham of Georgia was elected senlor book agent om the sacand bhallot.