The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1902, Page 17

e e e e e e 2 L 028 Brs44 4444444224444 44444+ PALALA N Pages L d + + + + + + + L [ EX L2 2al VOLUME XCII-NO. 1. SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1902—FORTY PAGES. B344350 009- I 24404 Pages R aasass DR 028 - > + * - + * ? PRICE FIVE CENTS. MONT PELEE’S SECOND DEADLY BLAST COMPLETES AWFUL RUIN A BRITONS PREPARE TO SHOUT |~ Ready to Celebrate Announcement of Peace. Kitchener Given the Credit for Ending the War.- Popularity of Lord Roberts on the Decline. 2 4 » South Africa is a definite an- LONDON, May t of peace cted, that night celebration relief of Mafek- y as e ’ el and Znd quar- s w and and other thor- tation on every seat in the pre-empted. ernment lead- »mes up to expecta- will be done in the United except exult over the hat h s tried the spirit termost saying that res are features of the e way which Lord ened the awesome which the dep South Africa reputation to s actually be- ge man-in-the- ad d to in common with his ent The gen- r who is éf grat bitter- vere overtaxed for o long ago spontaneous h made him the hero of could never be re- Indeed, it is to a hos- which General Bul- undoubtedly d Lord Kitc of moment. y not have pla peace ne d political opinions dar of the Egyptian about of the present the nancial regardin, magnates, " the cordi- rica has often been bet- Sovernment’s and whose in- | e almost as great as the e that Lord Kitchener is for of the country. PRETORIA, Ma -Acting President Steyn of the Orange Free State is suffer- and will not parti peace conference at ie has been given his pa- to Krugersdorp, about of Pretoria. DETACEMENT OF ARABS ROUTS A RAIDING FORCE Iatives Under French Command Suc- | ceed in Killing Seventy-One of the Enemy. ALGIERS, May L—A small detachment f Arabs, commanded by a French lieu- to Aln Salah, an after punishing a was attacked by ghborhood of Dei- ne Tauregs were routed and left e Gead on the field. The French three men killed and ten TWO HUNDRED FISHERMEN PERISH IN GREAT STORM Gale Rages Along the North Coast of Japan and Destroys Many Homes. TOKIO, Mey 81.—A severe gale raging along thenorth coast of Japan has brougit - My property. Over ) fisherme rted drowned, and g were destroyed. Plans Sanitarium for Consumptives. ¥ —Lawrence C. nillionaire steel manufac- ight for Pittsburg. Before ng he ed that he had pur- chased 160 acres of land near Mont Clair, suburb of Denver, on which he props a sanitarium for consump- u cottage system. It m d in memory of his other and called the Agnes Phipps viemorial Hospital. He paid $50,00 for the land and will spend a much larger amount in improvements. |EDWARD VII MEETS WITH TWO REBUFFS —3 | EBUCCLEUCET MISTRESS OF THE ROBES TO | QUEEN ALEXANDRA, WHO RE- FUSED TO INVITE KING ED- WARD'S FRIEND. Salisbury Refuses to Vield to King’s Request. ONDON, May 3L—Those in touch with royal circles are busy gossiping about the re- | ported tiff between Lord Salis- | bury and King Edward, which is said to have arisen on.ac- count the King's demand that the Premier recommend Sir Ernest Cassell for Last year the same request refusal. This year it was the King on the ground s munificent gift to the cure of consump Lord Salisbury refuscd to adhere, and on the day the state din | ner was held at Buckingham palace Lord Salisbury remarked: “Well, sir,' I sup- pose I had better leave my place at to- day’s banquet va to which King Edward Is said to have replied: {Yes, I | @ |SAYS HE IS HUSBAND OF MISS HELEN GOULD | TARRYTOWN, N. Y., May 3L—A man coming from Kansas who declared he was the husband of Miss Helen Gould was ar- rested in Irvington last night.. He was well dressed and appeared to be about 55 years old. In his pockets seven letters addressed to persons In Kan- sas and Indian Territory, written in the | Manhattan Hotel, New York. He has | been annoying Miss Gould for several | months, and she has received many let- | ters from him. He insists he is her hus- | band and that he has a scheme to develop | property in Westchester County, and in the village of Irvington. | To further this project he went to | Irvington yesterday afternoon. He waited | until evening and then went to Lind- { hurst. When'a servant came td the door | of Miss Gould’s home the man asked to | see Miss Gould. The servant asked the | man to walt and then telephoned for the ! night watchman. When the watchman | came the man was persuaded to leave the | place. Then he returned to Irvington, + and standing in the main street shouted to | passers-by that he was Miss Gould’s hus- { band, and he had come from Kansas to see her. Bafore Judge Taylor the man | said he was James H. Anderson of Kan- | sas. He was taken to White Plains to be examined as to his sanity of a peerage. met with on. were found | Duchess of Buccleuch | Also Shows Bold Defiance. think you had,” and stalked out of the room Since then, according to court gossip, King Edward and his aged Prime Minister | have scarcely been on speaking: terms. Another incident which is causing con- siderable comment in royal circles is Lle disagreement between King Edward and the Duchess of Buccleuch, a member of the old-style, exclusive aristocracy, who has not countenanced the so-cailed “smart set.” The King was dué to dine with the Duke. and Duchess of Buccleuch and in- timated his desire that a lady of his en- tourage be invited. This is usually tanta- mount to' a command, but the Duchess of Buccleuch, nothing daunted, refused pointblank to ask the King's friend to make one of the dinner pargy. EDWARD IS FURIOUS. His Majesty was furious and threatencd to cance! his promise to dine with the Buccleuchs, whereat the Duchess of Buc- cleuch retorted that she was quite willing to send her resignation as Mistress of the Robes to Queen Alexandra. Later in the day the King thought better of it, in- fcrmed the Buccleuhs that he accepted the exclusion of his favorite and forbade the Duchess to resign. Many members of the nobility, especiaily old county families, make no secret of their disapproval of various events in the King's social life. RAILROADS PROPOSE A COLONIZATION SCHEME CHICAGO, May 3L to-morrow will say: The management of the Harriman lines, which consist of the Southern Pacific, 1 Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Ore- son Railroad and Navigation Company, are peffecting plans for what Is sald to {'be the largest colonization enterprise ever attempted by the rallroads of the West. | The traflic department announces the or- ganization of a colonization bureau head- ed by G. M. McKinney. , Agencies will be located at Chicago, In- | diznapolis, Des Moines, Saginaw, Kansas | City, Louisville, Nashville, Pittsburg, Al- ! bany and New York. It is the purpose of the management of these roads to de- velop and settle in Oregon, Washington, Scuthern California and the other West- | ern points many thousands of colonists within the next two years, a number equal to a great army to be located in Oregon and Washington. An ample amount of money has been appropriated by the in- terested roads to garry on the work. The Record-Herald Struck by a Tornado. | LEAD, N. D., May 31.—4 small tornado + From the Special Correspondent of The Call and the New York Herald T. PIERRE, Martinique, May 23, via Herald's dispatch boat M. E. Luckenback to San Juan, Porto Rico, May 27.— ‘When the M. E. Luckenback | ran inte the roadstead of St. Pierre to-day, Mont Pelee was more violently active than on the occasion day before. In the interim had occurred the second terrific blast from the cone, whick the scientists now here describe | as more violent than the first. That it had not caused equal, or greater, destruc- tion was due solely to the fact that nothing remained alive within the sphere | of its=violence. From the new crater | smoke was boiling upward to-day in fleecy masses to a height as great as that of the cone itself. From six to eight other points along the slope, two of them al- most at the water’s edge, similar masses of smoke and steam indicated where new vents or crevasses were giving outlet to the seething subterranean mass. One of the most menacing of these appeared Lo be located directly on the site of the well- known sulphur springs of Mont Pelee, which for years has beem one of the sights of the place and one of the picnic resorts of the gay residents of the city. BEAT HASTY RETREAT. So torbldding was the aspect of the vol- cano that a score of negro laborers, who had been towed down from ‘Fort de France by a steam dredge and had tojled during the early hours of the morning at the task of bur¥ing the deas warning from the smoky $ignals shown above them and beat a habty retreat to their boats, had started back to Fort de France. This time a landing was effect- #d at the extreme northern end of the ru- ined city. At that point a stone causeway spans a small stream, and supported by terraced masonry, runs upward along the flank of the hill on which stands the mon- ument erected to the memory of the sail- ors who died in the great hurricane of 1892, Tui: oad not only affords easy ac- cess t) the art of the city, but at one point . s lof.. clevation, rising as it does to a height of about 200 feet above the sea, gives an unequaled birdseye view of the area of destruction. Professor Jagger of Harvard has de- seribed the Mont Pelee eruption as being a blast of fire driven upon and across St. Pierre by a hurricane of wind, as though it were a gigantic blowpipe, such a powerful heat flame upon objects which they are examining. analyzing or fusing. TORNADO-LIKE FORCE. No better evidence is found of the tor- nado-like force of !J.}\e blast than is secn along this roadway. It is Littered at every step with remnants of the tin rdofs torn from the houses of St. Pierre, a mile or more away, and all rent and twisted into fantastic shapes. As the road is built along the slope of the mountain and is retained by a stone parapet there is a sheer precs; ous fall on its one side while the mountain rises abruptly above it on the other. The same blast that wrecked Levery trgce of shrubbery, uprooted the ‘most magnificent of its great tropical trees and sent them hurling down the slope. of these trees were checked in their fall by the roadway, and in plnjvs, mingled as they are with debris blown from tlhe houses, they form a serious impediment. WRECK OF A SHRINE. From the side of a roadway a circling flight of stone steps leads upward on the mountain slope to a littie plateau about twenty feet above. There had been erect- ed one of those littie shrines to the Virgin which are so common in countries peo- pled by the Latin races. The miniature chapel was crudely built of stone and brick 16 a height of not more. than teir feet above its base and directly behind it two massive timbers, towering away above, hand been wrought into the form of a cross. Peering through a littie archway in the skrine and facing the wayfarer on the roadway stood the small marble image of the Holy Mother and child. Pelee's blast had left of the heavy timber forming the stem of the cross only a blackenéd stump. Its top, no trace of which remained, had probably been hurled far away into the sea below. But the little shrine stood unscathed. The white image of the Vir- gin bore not a trace of fire, though both it and the little sanctuary in which it stood are heavily coated with the thick gray dust that paints all things here the same somber hue. DIES AT PRAYER. Cn the stone steps leading to the shrine, plous pilgrimages, lay the ‘half-buried body of a human being. Its posture was such as to leave little doubt that he or she had been in the attitude of adoration when the awful blast of fire swept from struck this city at 1 o'clock this after- noon, demolishing about twenty bufldings ' and injuring three persons, none of whom, however, are fatally hurg Pelee across the city and struck down the ‘worshiper. It was evident that the body had fallen backward from the stone steps as the head reposed upon one of the of the vessel's previous visit of the Sun- | Gead, hadidaren | as chemists and lapidaries use in directing | the ecity denuded the mountain side of | Many of the stumps and remnants | worn smooth and deep by centuries of! Wave From Great “Blow- pipe” Levels All Remain-= ing Structures. Call Correspondents Visit and Describe Scene of Desolation. + T ST. Pi 3 lower stones of the flight, while the bent knees upon the step above suggested all tco plainly how death had found this pious devatee. WORK OF THE BLOWPIPE. Penetrating farther into the Jeart of the city there were eyerywhere evidences of the terrific execution wrought by the Lefore. Pieces of heavy machinery used in ‘the sugar mills and rum distilleries, which had withstood the fire of May 8, Lud withered into shapeless masses of moelten metal under Pelee's second on- slaught, Here again was seen the apt- ress of Professor Jagger's similie. Per- haps one-half of the houses, the ruins of which at least had been standing after the first eruption, were now razed to the ground. The Cathedral de Moullace was a more complete wreck than before, one of the great towers having succumbed completely under the power of Pelee's great “blowpipe.” Toward the north the portion of the city closet to the volcano is now compietely buried. Several acres in the section nearest that known as the new town, in which one week ago the tcps of the ruins were visible, have now vanished completely beneath the smooth expanse of gray Volcanic dust. Gazing escape the surmise that with a few more such eruptions St. Plerre will be buried in dust and ashes almost as deep as Pompelf and Herculaneum were buried under lava. RECOVER PRENTISS’ BODY. The story of the recovery of United States Consul Prentiss’ body is a thrilling one. The commanding officers of the United States and British crulsers had teen dirccted to recover the bodies of their respective Consuls, and for this purpose the Indefatigable had steamed ! from Fort de France on the morning of May 19, accompanied by the Potomac, which carried two coffins and a detail from the Cincinnatl. The party consist- ed of séven men from the Circinnati, the hospital steward from the Potomac and three natives, these latter being equipped with the soldering tools. The party was | landed without difficulty at St. second great volcanic burst of three days | upon this transformation, one could not VOLCANO “THAT DEVASTATED IERRE THE NORTHERN HALF OF ST. VINCENT ISLAND, CAUSING 1600 DEATHS. - Plerre, | and after leaving one-coffin for the lnde-’ | tatigable to pick up, it proceeded with | of the United States Consulate. | Pelee even then looked threatening as « leveled rifle, clouds of steam and smoke | bursting here and there from its scarred | und cinder laden slopes, but the men paid | little heed to the mountaln and set about | the work which they had in hand. A/l charred body supposed to be that of the | i late Mr. Prentiss was found and placed | lin the zinc'coin. Hardly had the three | | natives sealed the coffin and the men of | picked it up for the marcl; to| the shore befgre the Indefatigable's &fren | hegan to shriek warning of approaching Looking ‘toward that sound the | danger. | startled bluejackets saw the crulser | swing about and head off shore. They saw also a white plume of steam spurt- ng from the Potomac's steam whistle | and knew by that their own vessel was | also sounding danger signals. BRAVERY OF BLUEJACKETS. Blacker than any thunder cloud and far more sinister, a great billow of volcanic | smoke was boiling down the mountaia | | side and was then half way to the foot- hills. on whose undulations the eity of | St. Pierre had stood. The three natives| instantly took to their heels, and for ng | brief instant the bluejackets were on the verge of panic. Two or three of the sail- | ors instinctively let go the casket handles to start in flight for the boat, and a wild scramble for safety would have followed had it not been for the stern command of the young ensign, who ordered the men buack to their places. The finely drilled crew instantly obeyed, and, taking up the casket, resumed their march to the shore. Then out of the dark mass behind them came the boom of heavy explosions and the gleam of flame. That seemed too much even for stout nerves, and the men involuntarily quickened their pace Into a smmbng run to slow into a steady merch again upon the quietly spoken or- | der: “Ordinary time.” A | By herolc exertion the coffin was finally deposited on the Potomac's deck and con- veyed to Fort de France, where most im- pressive funeral ceremonies were ob- served. | The bodies of Mrs. Prentiss and her | daughters are yet buried beneath rock and ashes. An attempt will be made to the other to where was located the ruins | | —F PEOPLE FLEE FROM FURY OF MONT COLIMA UADALAFARA, Mex., May 31.—The Colima voleano is greatly in- creasing in its eruptions, and serjous consequences are feared owing to the volcano’s threatening aspect. Work on the extension of the Mexican Central Railroad between Guadalajara and Manzanillo has been temporarily suspend- ed, it being advisable to take no chances during the present threatening attitude of the voleano. Since the recent earthquake disturbances at Chilpancingo and Guerrero the volume of lava from the crater has increased consider- ably, and loud subterranean noises similar to overhead thunder have been heard, while at night the lava as- sumes strange conditions, so that the inhabitants of Colima are greatly alarmed. All the peasants and sheepmen who reside at the base of the mountain have long since abandoned their homes and fled to the town of Co- lima. The terror if the in- habitants of ths city grows each day, and unless the threatening aspect of the volcano abates there is liable to be a wholesale exodus of the inhabitants. Sheepmen re- port that poisonous gases from the craters have killed their sheep. So far as can be learned no human beings have been lost, but the situa- tion at this writing grows steadily more serious. — recover them, although the Martiniquians will allow the most of the victims to re- pose peacefully where they lie. The place will be abandoned as a townsite, but it will forever remain one of the wonders of the world. No less than Pompeii and, like Continued on Page Eighteen.