Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-21
1NEKs BY TELEGRIPH.
 From All Quarters. MANY LIVES WE'RE LOST Great Destruction by the Martinique Cyclone. MURDERER FRANK ALMY CAPTURED. FrightfuI Scene on an En-
 g|ish ScaffoId.
 SHOWING THE HOLY COAT AT TREVES Terrible Predicament of 8 Pleasure Steamer.
SHOWING THE HOLY COAT AT TREVEs
THE MARTINIQUE CYCLONE,

THE MARTINIQUE CYCLONE. Reports of Its Great Destructivenes ConArmed-NIore Than Twent. Vessels Lost at Fort de France ana
 St. Pterre-Fate of the Crews Un known.
 PARIS, Aug. 20.-Notwithstanding tha Martinique is French colony and tha news has reached here from the United States showing that hurricane has swep over that island Gone of the French Wes India Islands), causing considerable dam age, only the most meagre details hav' been received in this city.
 The first information received here wa. to the effect that every vessel in the har bor of Port de France, the principal har bor of the island, situated on the south west side of Martinique, had been lost. St Pierre, however, is the capital, and is or the northwest side. It was also said thai the houses at Port de France and at St Pierre had been damaged by the hurricane and that many lives were reported to have been lost.
 The only additional information received here is that the number of vessels lost if over twenty ,and that this number includes the Bienfaiteur and Ned White. The Bienfaiteur is French bark, Captain Garnier, of 2S7 tons. She left Rio Janeirc on June 13 for Martinique. The Ned White is an American brig, Captain FL we'll, 523 tons. She left Havana on June 28 for St. Pierre.
 Further particulars are anxiously ex- pected here.
 Another dispatch, received here, con- firms the report that all the vessels al Martinique were lost during the terrible hurricane there. Fort de France and St. Pierre are important ports of the Lesser Antilles. They are not only ports of des tination for large number of vessels from all parts of the world, but are ports of call for hundreds of others. Mar Unique lies in such position that it is liable to receive the full force of the dread ful gales that prevail in those attitudes during the hurricane season. Masters oi sailing vessels while at Martinique take extraordinary precautions to secure the safety of their vessels while lying at an chor or moorings at either of these ports, and as rule steamers during the hurri cane season lie with steam up ready te put to sea at the first indications of { hurricane, so that they may have plenty of sea room in which to ride out the gale.
 This last hurricane, to judge from the short and exceedingly unsatisfactory dis patches received here, must have been ot terrible force, for of all the shipping there it is reported that not single vessel was able to ride out the gale, and every one ot them was driven ashore. It is believed that a large number of these vessels are SC badly damaged or lie in such bad positions that they will be surrendered to the under writers.
 According to the latest dispatch the fol lowing French vessels are among thu wrecks: Bark Alphonsine Zelie, Captail Bacheller, from Cyenne (probably bound via Martinique for French por); bari Emmanuel Auger, Captain Cholet, iron Harve June 3; bark Souverain, Captain Bourdaze, from Calcutta March 31 via Re union; bark Nantes, Captain Pasques, iron Paimboeuf via Guadeloupe; bark Berth' Collet, Captain Poumet, from Bordeaux bark Anna, Captain Marion, from Gran vile March IT.; schooner Persevante, Cap tain Zego, from Cadiz April 19; bari ! Saphir Qate Josephine), from Marseille May 25, and the Handl. It is also knowl that the Italian brig Amicizia, Captain Ma | tarazzo, from Marseilles May 25, is amoni the vessels driven ashore.
 The dispatch makes no reference to los of life among the ships crews, and there | great anxiety among the families of tn ! Officers and crews of the vessels, as well a ! among the ship owners, to receive fulle l particulars of the disaster. The cabl rates to Martinique are exceedingly high | and this probably accounts for the brevit | of the dispatches already received. 1 It is reported that the Haytien warshi | Touissant D'Ouverture, which was at Mar l tinioue. was lost in the hurricane at ths place. The reports that have reached her state that some of the officers and creN lost their lives, but the exact number not known.
 HAVANA, Aug. 20.-Professor Vines, tn we'll known authority on hurricanes an other weather phenomena, says that th cyclone that has done such great damae at Martinique, seems, according to his ot servances, to have a small radius. Its d rection is west northwest; it progresse with velocity of fifteen miles per houl It has crossed the south of the Island ( St. Thomas, and it's influence will probabl be felt in the eastern portion of Cuba t, morrow. No further details regarding tt | storm have been received here.
 Still later particulars from the island (
 Martinique show that the hurricane bur
 at about 7 o'clock in the evening, thoug it's approach was felt some time before tn
 hour. The hurricane then ragged furiousl
 for more than three hours. Besides d
 molishing the crops, blowing down house
 etc., the hurricane destroyed the main pa
 of the hospital at Fort de France, whie
 building collapsed and crushed two arti lerymen to death in the ruins. All vesse
 at St. Pierre when the hurricane broke u ' o4u loI sy,o nf efforts made to save them and at least oI vessel of importance and several smf | craft foundered at their anchorages. IT
 military camp at Balata was entirely d ! stroyed, all the houses composing the campment were unroofed and several sc
 diers were severely injured by fyil | blanks and beams.
 VIENNA, Aug. 20.-Further details fro Botzen, near the scene of the cloudbur'
 which as announced on Tuesday last, ps l tially destroyed the village of Kollma | seem to show that the damage done al | the number of lives lost are greater tn
 at first supposed. The cloud burst ov
 the mountains and flooded the lowlanc
 converted a mountain stream into torre
 which swept through the village of Ko
 man. carrying away people and cattle a
 destroying half the houses in the plat Forty persons were said to have be drowned by this accident which also stroyed the railroad for many miles. now appears that the fall of water frt the clouds also flooded the other side the mountains, and that hamlets situat I on the hill tops have been isolated by | flood. Many corpses have been seen in 1 valley on the other side of the mountail | These were being carried down the t rents and it is feared that further g
 greater damage to property has result
 from the calamity, and that the loss of
 is much greater than announced in
 first reports. Some time must necessal
 elapse before the full details of the aff
 are known.
 VIENNA, Aug. 20.-It is stated that
 the Kellman floods 6,000 cubic metres
 stone have been hurled down the mo
 tains distance of TOO metres. Th
 hundred men are employed in divert
 the water. Sixty bodies have been
 covered, all horribly disfgured, and h nd been buried in rugs, sacks, etc., owing ,e- lack of cofins.
 WOULD CEDE RHINE PROVING n A Scheme to Get France Into ne Triple Alliance. ral BERLIN, Aug. 20.-A member of
 upper house of the Prussian diet has W