The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1902, Page 1

rel VOLUME XCI-NO. 181. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LA SOUFRIERE IS QUIETING DOWN AND GOVERNOR REPORTS - WORST IS OVER ON ST. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RUINS | OF ST. PIERRE | | l " HEN mews was received that the city of St. Pierre, with its 30,000 inhabitants, had been desttoyed, the New York | Herald and the San Francisco Call lost no time in dispatching a swift steamer to the stricken | island of Martinique. In addi- | | tion to supplies for the panic- | vors of Mont | | Pelee’s avalanche of death, the i g . oy dispatch-boat carried ' a staff of correspondents and photogra- | phers. The work of these trained newspaper men has been shown by the exclusive news and series | | of graphic descriptions of the wolcanoes on both Martinigue | and St. Vincent. While the cor- ' respon. ere scnding forth their ing - stories, photo- graphs were- being « taken, and c first of these 1o -arrive:-here are presented in- this issue of The Call. Z 7229 B —al A - SAre | FrRANCISCO i | | | 1 : ory rarE ’1 WATERFRONT | | [ | : - - ; e 3 = e ONDON, May 29.— |accompanied Professor Robert T. . . 5 : Joseph Chamberisin, fhe | i1 Caited Sten covernment | DATINZ Newspaper Correspondent Ascends Colonial Secretary, has| geologist, on his expedition. .1119 following | Tilitishica cablegram from Sir Robert Bax- r Llewellyn, Governor of the : ’ tc I.le\ i 7 g i lanagn continued on past Morne | Windward Islands, in the West | S Indies: | 3 | been -along or near the Cale| There has i 35 Ly - “H | Basse divide. volcanic outbreak on the island | 5 i e A : | scended from‘Morne Rouge into | of St. Vincent since May 18. I| : % e the valley between Morne Rouge | hope the worst is over, but the S : | 4 3 3 | and Mont Pelee. This valley was people of the island are still nerv-| ; v | deeply strewn with ashes. Kav- All zrrangements for the| ¥ y . 2 s . .|anagh was guided by an aged comfort of the injured, the relief| 2 | 3 3 ’ _ | negro to where an old fcotpath | of the destitute and the resettling o s E g ALY IR once led to Lake Palmiste, near of the people of St. Vincent are| : K { the summit of the crater. There| |an iron cross, twenty feet high, Approaches Crater. | was buried in ashes to within a FORT DE FRANCE, Mar-|foot of its top. Before him tinique, May 29.—The crater of | stretched upward the mountain Mont Pelee has been approached | slope, covered with ashes, which within one mile. This feat was|were soaked by the heavy rains complished Tuesday afternoon | and- baked by the sun and vol- George Kavanagh, an lmat-‘} cano heat, zand looked like a ce- received When Professor Rouge. His route seems to have been no serious He says he de-| ous yrogressing satisfactorily.” prog g : a | south, toward St. Pierre, Kav- | | — Mont Pelee and Succeeds in Ap- proaching Near Crater. mountain-top was shrouded m since Mont smoke. Realizes Danger. Forgetful of the explosion of greatest outbreak Pelee’s first eruption. On Wednesday Kavane‘lgh tried to descend to St.. Pierre, | but failed. He found a little ham- the previous night and the awful; " : | et in a valley near the mountaif, suddenness of the outburst, and empted by the seemingly easy 2 By 3 g ” | were not carbonized, nor had their clothing -been._burned off. Prbbably this valley lay near the | inner edge.of the one of blasting | flame. George Kennan reported from Morne Rouge this morning. ascent, he continued upward and made photographs and sketches. rough Kavanagh found the valley filled with ashes, and two great rifts, which he was afraid to approach. In the evening he turned - back, reaching Morne; Two hours ago Professor An- Rougeat about 9 o’clock. He hg(li gelo Heilprin, president of the made no new observations, and | Philadelphia- Geographical So- realized his danger only the nékt ciety, but here under the aus- tached newspaper man, who had | ment sidewalk. ' The whole morning, when occurred the| pices of the National Geographi- black with 150 dead bodies. They | =3 cal Society, left with Mr. Lead- better to make a three days" care- | ful exploration and study of the | new craters east and north.- Storm of Ashes. NEW ORLEANS, May 29.— { The British steamer Louisianan, West Indian line, arrived here to-day from Trinidad and Colon. Captain Edwards reports the ves- sel passed through a storm of ashes precipitated, by Mont Pelee, the Louisianan being cov- ered several inches deep by them. They were first observed on the afternoon of May 7, when the vessel was between Barbadoes and Trinidad. The sky began to darken by degrees; and at a dis- tance a big black pall was seen slowly mounting - into the heav. ens, and this forbidding, gloomy bank of faraway clouds was rent and illumined -by constant and vivid flashes of lightning. The storm gained rapidly on the ship. At 4 p. m. the atmo- sphere was so thick with' clouds and a strange haze that it seemed as if night had set in. Captain Edwards tcok an observation of the latitude and longitude and found he was about 107 miles from Martinique. PARIS, May 28.—Louis Ern- oul, Deputy Mayor of St. Pierre, Martinique, has arrived here. He lost sixty-five relatives in the dis- aster that overwhelmed St. Pierre. furniture of his house were left intact, but nothing was left in the garden except one tree, which is still bearing leaves and fruit. Ernoul 'says that a Mme. Bru- VINCENT, BUT PEOPLE ARE AFRAI A FMOROUGHFARE | The walls, doors and| ILLUSTRATING THE TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION HE ., accompanying il- lustrations show the terrible effects of the death-dealing wave of heat and gases that swept dowwn from the wolcano of Mont Pelce into St. Pierre, the thriving seaport of the istand of Martinique. The waze crumbfed stone and melted ipn, and slew every living of The largest of the thing with - the swiftness lightiing. pictures shows one of the prin- after the cipal thoroughfares disaster, with_ the great masses | of stone ¢nd twisted iron and the shattered walls of the stout structures. The other views show the ruin wrought in the main business street of. the town and along the water froni. (Copyright, by the New York Herald Publishing 1902, Company.) SRt gier and her six|children took ref- uge in a cave, \where they re- mained for sixty-two hours after the catastrophe. When the little party was discovered they were all terribly burned. Mme. Bru- gier had sufficient strength. to murmur “Water for Germain” before she died. A cup of water was placed at' the lips of Ger- main, who expired after taking the first mouthful. Cruisers Aid. The Minister of Marine re- ceived a dispatch to-day from Admiral Servan, stating that the cruisers Tage and Suchet assist- ed in the evacuation of the north- ern portion of Martinique despite a heavy rain of cinders. The cruiser D’Assas has ar- rived with a delegation of offi- cials from Guadeloupe. They will arrange for the transporta- tion and proper lodgment of the afflicted. 7 n