The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1902, Page 11

REMAINS OF ONE OF THE VICTIILS Photographs taken especially for The World; Copyrightea by Press Publishing Company. TORNADO OF FIRE CUTS STONE WALLS LIKE KNIFE, a Line of Demarcation Clear- dy Shown in Ruins of Burned City. The photographs of the ruins of Bt. Picrre reprod to-day were Pelee, which destro: Killed 4,00) persons. actual photographs o! New York. The photographer who took them went from Barbados on the first relief expedition from that place. The expedi- tion left Barbados Saturday afternoon, May 10, and reached St, Pierre the next morning. Several physicians were in the party and supplies of medicines were carried No work was found for the physicians and the supplies were not needed In St. Pierre, which was inhabited only by the dead, The rellef party, after Inspecting the ruins, went to Fort de Franoe, where a fow sufferers were found and where the meiicines were | The World's photographe. of pictures of the wrec the harbor id of the ruins of the town. oy reueh ok a vease! "The most striking feature of the} sight,” he writes, "was that the de- struction a red to be the fesult of something red-hot being hurled upor town at a very high velocity whole mou ) (Pelee) on t was Inviatb) ease of the In ble wall of smoke and vapor; had glimpses of {t, It appears that a rent ooourred in the side nearest tho town and that a huge blast of red-hot particles of an inflammable nature was propelled at great ppoed against and over the town, extendt ith a welle marked line of demarcation from the top of tho hill behind the town to a polnt along the shore about two mfles north of the town. The complete wi age of Bt, Pierre could not have been dye to fire alone, “he horrors which presented them- selves on whore were such as to chill the blood and make the fesh creep, Dowons of bodies wore sown slong the THE FIRS? CHARRED CORPSE if CO ONIAL BANK SHOWING REMAINS. mNTEhGOR é BEDSTEAD FROM ROOM ABOVE cctacniaggy es Peer ree arn Photographs taken especially fer The Worldy Copyrighted ty Press Publiating Company. PHOTOGRAPHER FINDS HORRORS AT EVERY STEP. pe Charred Bodies Strew Beach and Lay in Piles Within St. Pierre. shore. Some seemed cast up from the deep, probably sailors from the buay fleet whose charred hulls marked where they had been burned to the water's edge by the deluge of molten sand. Other bu od that they had fallen while running to the sea to @8- cape the rain of burning sand, The people were apparently strangled by sulphurous gases from the flery pit, strangled while running, for nearly all of them lay as they had pitched for andiag place there sof men who had evidently beon engaged in picklag tame arinds when the fire and gases hurried into eternity, The tamarind tree ho hag t fhe th hy 1 Nght m the buggy "when | ploding vol » dJotted him out of batted ee SUPPLIES FOR 8 WEEKS ° & FRANCE, — Adjt.-Gem Corbin a received the following | from Capt. Gallaher, at Fort de France wont to Martinique on the Dtxte, of the eruption are @0m. thern portion of the d the oder destroyed. ‘ air ewtimate o Pig ondltioy