Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-21
ovER TWO HUNDRED KILLED.
The Half Was Not Told in tho First Re
ports of the MartiniQus Disaster

The Half Was Not Told in the First Re-
ports Of the MartiniQas Disaster.
PARIS, August 21.-Additional details re-
ceived here this morning from st. Pierre. capt.
tai Of the Island of Martinique, the French
West Indian possession, which was visited
by terrible hurricane on Tuesday night
last. shows that the facts already
published are not only in no way exaggerated
but that they did not tell the full story of the
disaster. The number of dead was originally
estimated at sixty. with hundreds of injured.
The latest dispatches received here announce
that 21s people are found to have been
killed IN the coast towns alone, the towns
In the interior not having been heard
from as yet There is no doubt that
the loss OF life in the interior towns
may have been as great If not greater,
present to make an estimate of the number Of
people who lost their lives through the cyclone
disturbance which did so much ruin and desc
lation to the unfortunate island.
GENERAL CONVERSATION.
The official dispatches received hero admit
that a state Of CONSERVATION exists throughout
the Island of Martinique. and when this is adj
mitted in official reports the real state Of affairs
may be imagined.
The difficulty experienced in forming a
correct estimate as to the number of people
Unique is greatly due to the fact that the roads
leading into and from the interior of the
island have been rendered absolutely impsssa-
able. These roads are blocked in some cases for
several mikes by fallen trees and displaced
earth and rocks. Several days may elapse be-
fore the governor of Martinique is able to give
the home government detailed account of the
disaster which has fallen upon the inhabitants
Of tina. island.
1t il known, however, that houses, crops and
- mi, 10 fk,ar
have been demolished or fattened down be-
yond hope of recovery. The loss to the coffee
and sugar planters will be very great.
At Ducos, it is now added. only four houses
remain standing out of the buildings which
formed that little town before the hurricane
visited it. OF the inhabitants of Ducos eiSh-
teen have been killed and number arc injured
more or less severely. The troops at the dis
posal of the governor and large body of vol
unteers are busy at work in all directions sue
coring the injured and burying the dead.
The physicians Of the island hard! yliad an hour 3
rest for the first forty-eight hours following the
hurricanes passage. and citizens of all classes
are doing their utmost to 5uccor the sufferers
and to repair, go far az possible, the damage
done.
At st. Pierre. according to the first reports
received here, there were five people killed.
'Ba., il was added, lit is feared that tins
nlh.Der does not represent the entire loss OF
LIE IN the capital"
) HIs rear seems 10 nave Deen well founded,
for II 5 nov announced that at least thirty. four
people lost their lives at st. Pierre during The
fatal Tuesday night.
INK DEATH LIST.
TIE 2sa.h hss by towns as forwarded by Gov.
Case, up to Gate, lie as follows:
ST. Pierre, 81; Morne Rouge. %; Fonde st.
Denis, 7; Prech,urs. G; Carbel 4; st. Joseph,
20; Marsn. &; Naichin, TO- Lamentin, 26.
Francois, 20; Robert, IS; kiviere Pilote, 4
miscellaneous, IL,
But these numbers do not include the deaths
i'll isolated places. interior towns or upon plan
tations with which no communication can be
had ut present
AN ESTIMATE OF 800 KILLED.
Perhaps rough estimate Of 800 killed and
1000 injured will about cover the ground. The
wounded people received their injuries from
being hurt by falling buildings or falling
trees. Of course much suffering among the
poor has resulted from the damage done and
its attendant loss of life; in fact it may be
said that the majority of the inhabitants Of
Martinique are practically without any shelter
but that afforded by temporary huts, which
they have erected for themselves upon or near
the spots where their homes recently stood.
The governor and the colonial authorities are
doing everything possible to relieve the suffer-