The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 27, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 27, 1902. PELEE'S VICTIMS LIE FATHOMS DEEP IN TOMB' SEALED FOREVER AND ASHES Later Eruptions Prevent a ' Plague. Thrilling Story of| Scenes in | Ruins. From the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York Herald T. PIERRE, May 19, via Herald- Call dispatch boat M. E. Luck- enbach to San Juan, Porto Rico, y 20.—St. Pierre to-day is a charnel house. Skirting for nearly a league the blue waters the Caribbean, its smoking| ruins are the funeral pyre of thirty thou-| sand, not one of whom lived long enough | to tell adequately the story that will stand grim, awful, unforgotten, as that of years. St. Plerre is as dead | hearts stout enough to build again be-| the steaming maw of old Pelee a can rise only on the ruins of the Pierre is not only dead, but Most of her people lie fathoms in a tomb made in the twinkling of by the collapse of their homes and d forever under tons of boiling mud, avalanghes of scoria and a hurricane of volcanic dust. Above the miles of piled debris rise here and there the relics of and homes and commercial ged walls, rent, seamed and Fit monuments they are of dead beneath, who were f the city not even a mney thrusts its top| In the section known | winding up the slope from the crescent of the ®&s the new of the mountain mes have utterly vanished as a s chalet is swept from sight by the of an Alpine avalanche. h was the picture when the Call- ‘s dispatch boat, M. E. Luckenbach, lay stood in toward the shore, pick- r way carefully among the charred dot the harbor and whose blackened timbers are the sole relics of ships, merchantmen and smaller went down staggering and blazs- deys ago under the tornado of e steamer’s boats were lowered | in toward the strand, tly the scene of a commercial sea- sound broke the perfect e boat drew near the shore e stillness was broken by the f a coal yard fire. No word either by passengers or Crew. shadow of such a horror all were Soon living beings were seen scrambl! 1 to the shore from amid the ruins. were a party of negro looters. The of the Call-Herald steamer had 4 them st their work and they ried down to the beach and tumbled a long dory which had lain hidden d = half-burned bulkhead. Closer on of their craft during a brief the Call-Herald’s boat was wed that the other craft d with silver tableware, much of it fused with sil- ser coins, gnaried and twisted pieces of broken pottery and aments and detached pleces of copper machinery. All were the gray dust that gave to ifficulty a landing was ef- the Marina, diregtly in front of 1 of the large rum warehouse of Frocs. The wharves in front were with an inextricable tangle of casks, barrel hoops and staves, heavy » enchor chains, plles of conch shells other maritime debris. The heavy v walls of the building, falling out- to the second story above 1d, the thick stone walls of the d stood, though seamed und tot- in the main doorway, at the 1d of the place where he had as seen the first mute relic of gedy—a negro. Broadshouldered he had been a stevedore or porter probably. The stone r doorway had saved him from ng crushed under the falling walls and masonry had shielded the body y from the fire, BURIED DEEP BY LAVA. through Bouille street to the the tangle became more and ricate. Here on the left was t last a sound. In the deathlike struck upon the ear strangely. lttered DR. PIERCE’S REMEDIES. when there is of health as well as affection. 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A STREET 9y THE NATIVE QUARTER Work of Cremation Is Not Completed by the Fright Py It was the ripple of gurgling water. Trac- ing it to its source we found a water pips, the nozzle of which projected through the shattered wall of a private dwelling. From it the water, in pure crys- tal plenty, was pouring down and welling the masses of ashes and cementlike pow- der beneath into a sticky paste. St Pierre's streets, with their trickling rivu- lets of mountain water, had been the pride of her citizens. Through all the blast of fire the remnant of her water system] at least, had survived. One of the party had approached the trickling water to lave from his hands and face the choking accumulation of dust. As he did so he stepped back and peused. Di- rectly below where the water fell lay huddled the grizzled remnants of a dead family. From this point the party, with difficul- tles increasing at every step, pushed far- ther up the steep toward the heart of the town, Into Victor Hugo street. Progress here was made rather by climbing than by walking. Through Victor Hugo street ‘we penetrated to what had been the Cath- edral de Moulloce. Had it been hammered for a fortnight under the guns of a fleet of battleships its ruln could hardly have been more complete. When Pickett on the last day of Gettysburg hurled his le- gions in the final aseault upon Hancock's second corpe it was said that over the ground traversed by that great charge from Seminary Ridge to the point held by Webb's Philadelphia brigade a man might have walked literally upon the bod- ies of the slain. In the Place de Moulloce of St. Plerre and immediately surround- ing the cathedral one could hardly see to pick his way to escape walking upon the bodies of the dead. It was no exaggera- tion when Consul. Ayme of Guadeloupe said that the streets of St. Pierre were paved with the corpses of her citizens. Scme crude effort there had been made to destroy by fire the grewsome relics spared by the original cataclysm, but the work had been done all too ineffectiveyl. Fagots of driftwood piled around and above heaps of the slain had been fired by ne- groes employed for that purpose, but the work of cremating was only partly ac- complished. From a sanitary point of view it is fortunate for Martinique that the vast majority of those who died when her chief city was annihilated are buried 80 deep as to need no better sepulcher. THE CATHEDRAL CHALICE. Something of scandal has been attach- ed to the circumstances under which the chalice of the cathedral was rescued. In BOER STRUGGLE MAY BE RESUMED Minority at Conference Is Desirous of Con- tinuing War. PRETORIA, May 26.—The prevalence throughout South Africa of the optimistic feeling in regard to the peace negotiations is hardly based on solid facts. The pro- traction of the conference at Vereenigning 1s not necessarily a hopeful situation. The delegates to the conference, al- though they have abandoned their hope of securing independence, still have many points of difference with the Government, while an obstinate minority continues to regard the resumption of hostilities as the best putcome of the present situation and at y moment these points of dif- ference may be accentuated into a refusal to continue the negotiations. It is most unlikely that those who are ened. Negroes. the first party to penetrate within the cathedral walls was Captain Dubury, a British army officer In command of a de- tachment of artillery at Barbadoes. Cap- tain Dubury, himself a devout Catholic, in prodding about the debris of the cathedral, found the sacred vessel, and an intimate friend of his whom I saw last night is authority for the statement that the wafer was found intact though baked to a hardened mass. Not in the ecoffing spirit of a curio hunter, but rev- erently and devoutly, Captain Dubury took the chalice and bore it to Barbadoes, intending to transfer it into the custody cf priests of the Catholic church with whom he was well acquainted. The facts became known in Fort de France and French residents, resenting the actlon of a forelgn army officer intruding into the sacred places of their dead city, slarted the story that Captain Dubury had engaged In looting. In Fort de France the story has now become a pub- lic scandal, and there is open gossip of a possible military court of inquiry to in- vestigate Captain Dubury’s action at the request of French authorities of the colony. Though many ghouls have already prowled through the catacombs of the ruined city, St. Plerre presents a profit- able fleld for the would-be looter. It would have been for any member of the Herald-Call party during the hours while they were tramping over the en- tombed town to have filled baskets with sl:ver spoons, coins, ear-rings, er rings, jewelry and knick-knacks of all kinds, ‘many’ of them of intrinsic value and others of interest solely as souveni: In the ruins of every house of the be ter residential quarters might have been picked up stores of such trinkets. Loot- ers had entered the town the moment its streets nad sufficiently cooled to make that possible. They were busily at work there when the United States steamship Potomac, which arrived nearly a week ago, ran into the harbor. The naval of- ficers placed under arrest a party of one white man and five' negroes who were found burdened with loot. Their only explanation was that they were endeav- oring to recover the Yroperty of relatives who had been killed in the disaster. The Fotomac transferred her prisoners to the captain of the French battleship Suchet, but they seemingly attached little im- portance to the matter and set them ree. SRS DEADLY WAVE OF HEAT. Awful Force Sent Forth From Mont Pelee. From the Special Corresvondent of The Call and New York Herald. FORT DE FRANCE, May 18, via Her- in favor of peace will throw up the sponge s0 long as a decent minority is desirous | of continuing the struggle, and all these | dissonant elements must be taken into | account before it is possible to give any sort of prediction as to the issue of the | present negotiations. | Forty-six Boers, with their wagons and | cattle, surrendered at Balmoral, Trans- vaal, yesterday. NDON, May 27.—The Dally Mail this morning says the Cabinet council to be held to-day will decide upon points of detail, mostly of a financial nature, which have been raised by the Boers in the peace negotiations. Great Britain's de- cision in the matter then will be com- municated to the Vereenigning conference by the delegates at Pretoria, says the pa- | per, and being the best obtainable terms they will almost surely be accepted. The results should be announced officially either Thursday or Friday of this week, robably on Friday, the day upon which ing Edward's birth is celebrated. Peace is quite certain, says the Daily Mail, and the delegates at Pretoria are cnlY engaged in endeavoring to gild the pill for the Vereenigning conference to swallow. The Daily Mail says further: Our dispatches from Pretoria assert that numerous communications are passing between Lords Kitchener and Milner in South Arfica and London. Lord Kitchener, aithough he is still full of energy. is much aged in appearance as a re- sult of the severe and continuous strain which he has undergone. The consensus of opinfon is that the recent negotiations have proved d Kitchener to be a great diplomatist as well as UNDER TONS OF BOILING MUD, AVALANCHES OF SCORIAE _a | | | 8 || | W < CADirvG VSuPAPLIES o —— 4 / | — | o SCENES AT THE DESTROYED CITY, AND VESSEL THAT CARRIED SUCCOR. ald-Call's dispatch boat M. E. Lucken- bach to San Juan, Porto Rico, May 20.— Had St." Pierre been a short mile further south it would not now be a city of the dead. Around Point Lance, which marks the southern end of the harbor, the lit- tle village of Carbet remains to accentu- ate the horror of the catastrophe . that overwhelmed the city of which it was a suburb. Coasting along the west side of the island, from its head toward Fort de France, the men of the Herald-Call dis- patch boat had scen the awful destruction that Pelee had wrought, and it had sunk s0 deep into their memory that so long as they live nothing can dim its vivid- ness. So awful was the picture—and words seemed so inadequate to describe it —that it was more by look than speech that_the men gathered on the deck of the Luckenbach sought to convey to one another their impressions of the scene as it passed before their eyes. But when the whitened, crumbling ruins of St. Pierre had been passed, Carbet, still sur- rounded by tropical luxuriance and with men and women walking about its streets —life where for miles there had been nothing but white death to be seen—came into view. When the vessel rounded a lit- tle headland the thought uppermost in the minds of all on board was the pity of it. In a flash it came to them all how near the beautiful city had been to a creat soldier. It is hard to appreciate the - magnitude safety, how short a distance its inhabi- tants would have had to flee to get safely beyond the limits of the mountain's power. It is not known, and perhaps never will be indisputably known, what wrought the unparalleled disaster. The officers of the cruiser Cincinnatl, who have made an investigation of the ruins and a study of the causes which led to the wreck, bhave a theory which of the difficulties Lord Kitchener has had to contend with. The Boer leaders are all deeply impressed with his personality and trust him implicitly. t 1s understood that Lord Mllner, the Brii- ish High Commissioner In South Africa, has racefully admitted that the ultimate credit or the accomplishment of the great task ls due 'to Lord Kitchener. ————— New Danger Threatens Castro. WILLEMSTAD, Curacao, May 26.—A re- llable report has reached here that a new invasion of the Venezuelan frontler by Venezuelan revolutionists is contemplated and will occur shortly. The Venezuelan revolutionists who contemplate this i vagion are sald to haye Deen assisted. by the* Government of Colombla with arms and men. Four thousand men who will invade Venezuelan territory are sald to have assembled-at Cucula, which is situ- ated in Colombia, but close to the western frontier of Venezuela. President Castro of Venezuela has de- ferred the threatened bombardment of the port of Carupano, in the State of Ber- mudez, and which is now occupied by the Venezuétan revolutionists, until to-mor- Tow. —_— e . Yosemite Via the Santa Fe. The quickest and most convenient way in and out of the Yosemite Valley is by way of the Santa Fi 1t you leave Zan Franclsco to- day at 9 a. m. on the California Limited you are in Yosemite to-morrow at 5 p. m. Call at Santa Fe ticket office, 641 street, for illustrated pamphlet and full ticulars. + Call Dispatch Boat Visits Scenes of Horror. fo— — accounts for what is otherwise un- accountable. It is that Pelee's crater had nothing to do with the destruction that was caused. The theory is, and one that is everywhere borne out by evidence, that a‘crevice was opened in the side of the volcano nearest the city, and that through this 'vent issued-a gas that was borne by a breeze straight over St. Pierre. The lines of demarkation of this gaseous river, plain as though they had been drawn by a ruler, lay down the slope, marrowing at the mountain's top to open fan-shaped as it neared the ocean, and including every sectlon of the doomed city within its deadly radius. Some idea of the intense heat engendered may be had from the fact that the wroughtiron pipes and castiron gargoyles of a fountain lo- cated in the center of a park and fully 400 feet distant from any building have been found fused and twisted out of all shape. It requires 2800 degrees of heat to fuse wroughtiron, and this iron was in the center of a green park, far removed from any building that could have possi- bly engendered such heat as that. N'A"ITVES ARE TOO PROUD. St. Vincent People Are Loth to Ac: cept Aid From Foreigners. From the Special Correspondent of The Call and New York Herald. FORT DE FRANCE, May 20, via Her- ald-Call’'s dispatch boat M. E. Lucken- bach, and U. 8. S. Potomae, from St. Vin- cent, May 17.—Proud, self-sufficient St. Vincent is in dire need, yet she will allow rone to help her. That is the way it seemed 1o some of the men on the Poto- mac, which arrived there on Wednesday, willing, nay anxious, to render any as- sistance possible, but to all the efforts of help the invariable reply was that Eng- land would look after her own. But to the guthorities of the island and to the Governor. Sir Robert B. Llewellyn, it does seem-that the islanders are over proud. In their present state of mind, they cannot conceive, apparently, of the possibility of re!alnin% their self-respect and at the same time lay themselves un- der what seems to them a deep obligation to the people of a forelgn country. And yet to the officers and men of the Poto- mac who spent last Wednesday on shore, riding _and ving from Kingstown through Georgetown to the Soufriere mountain, distress was apparent on ev- ery hend One of them told the corres- pondent that not more than five or six out of every fifty who passed along the roads failed to ask him for money. Lo el MOUTETTE RESPONSIBLE. Governor Withholds Warning of St. Pierre’s Danger. FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, May 26,—It 1s now known that all the lives in St. Pierre might have been saved had it not been for the action of Governor Moutette. Professor Landes of the Uni- versity of St. Plerre had been instructed by Governor Moutette to make an inves- tigation of Mont Pelee. At the imminent risk of his life, Professor Landes went to the crater of the volcano. He found i o o o ORI R R S I S S S IR A SR SRRy REBELS DEFEAT TURKISH TRODRS Whole Battalion Is An- nihilated Near Sca- port of Mocha. LONDON, May 27.—A dispatch to the Daily Express from Cairo, Egypt, says that a whole batthlion of Turkish troops has been annihilated by rebels near the seaport of Mocha, in the Turkish vilayet of Yemen, in the southwestern part of Arabla. The Governor of Mocha is said to Lave been carried away by the rebels as a hostage. The rebels are being joined by numbers of Turkish troops, who are- de- serting, —_———————— Come Around for Shoes. Ladies’ and men’s regular $4 shoes for $2 15 at the manufacturer’s sale of shoes, 717 Market street, near Third. . ; [ +‘ S Awful Condition Are Described in Detail. - that the fofces at work were such as to| make an explosion certain. Hurrying back to St. Pierre he sent a | cipher dispatch to the Governor, in which he gave warning that the volcano would not hold itself in check much longer. He even went so far as to predict the total | destruction of the city of St. Pierre not later than May 8. Instead of acting on the advice of Pro- | fessor Landes, Governor Moutette went | to St. Pierre and tried to allay the fears of its inhabitants. He crdered Professor Landes to say nothing about the con- clusions he had reached. Governor Moutette said that if St. Plerre was destroyed he would remain to share the fate of the inhabitants. Professor Landes acquiesced, saying he, too, would remain. Both lost their lives on May 8, though Governor Moutette was trying to escape when it was too late. The cipher dispateh of warning sent by Professor Landes is still in existence, but it is held a gecret by the ‘Government. | Canadian Government has | the eme Carrying Lumber to Rebuild Homes. Uncle Sam Still Assisting the Afflicted. ASHINGTON, May 26— The Navy Department has added one more, and per- haps the last, to the good offices which it has been called on to perforfn in be- half of the West Indian vclcanic sufferers by undertaking to de- liver to the homeless people of St. Vin- cent a large quantity of lumber which the given. Tha lumber is coming by rail from Canada te Norfolk, the treasury officials authorizing { its passage through the United States in bond and without payment of duty. At Norfolk the lumber will be loaded on the collier Lecnidas and transported directly to St. Vincent. Adjutant General Corbin has received the following cablegram from Captain J. Gallagher, commissary department, dated St Vincent, Ma “The area of devastation on St. Vincent about twelve square miles in the north- ern extremity. The population of this area was about 8060, of which 1600 lost thelr liv the remainder escaping by flight to Kingstown and other places. It was no such overwhelming catastrophe as at St. Plerre, yet more people are to be sustained by the public because many es- caped. Outside of the area devastated no great damage was done, but the people are very apprehensive. This condition will not abate until the vcleano, which is still active, subsides. A second eruption oc- | curred May 18, but no additional damage was done. Supplies of all kinds from the Dixie were most gratefully recefved, and will, with what was on hand, provide for the present population for three months. Lumber for rebuilding is asked. Nothing is known of any disturbance outside of St. Vincent and Martinique. Now that ncy has been met I would ad- vise sending supplies gradually, and only after inquiry as to actual needs, as a great quantity sent at once might prove more embarrassing than beneficial. The stores on the Dixie were well selected.” Secretary Moody also received the fol- lowing cablegram from Captain Berry of the Dixie, dated St. Lucla, May 26: “The Dixie is discharging the remainder of her stores at Kingstown, where they are most needed. The provisions now on hand will last several meonths. Lumber for houses is needed. The volcano is active, but no additional damage. Care of the res- cued and injured, approximately 3000, weil in hand by the local authorities.” A telegram was received anouncing the departre of the Potomac from St. Lucia to-day bound for San Juan, Porto Rico. Heart Disease Cause of Death. SAN RAFAEL, May 2.—The Coroner’s irquest over the body of Captaim T. Joknson, who was found dead In his home in Sausalito on Saturday night, tcok place this morning. The testimony presented to the jury indicated that death was due to heart diséase. The first anything. expenses. you pay for. So much for thsory. every cent of the price; a suit free of charge for a year. 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