New-York tribune., 1902-05-10

Confirmation Of the loss OF the Quebec Steam
ship Company's steamer ROraima was received
yesterday afternoon at the office OF A. +. Outer
bridge & Co.. No 80 Broadway. II came from
an agent at Dominica, about forty miles north
of ST. Pierre, and read:
"Rora ma lost. Volcanic eruption"
This dispatch was not sent in reply 10 n re-
quest of the company for particulars but is
supposed to have been forwarded on the agent :
own responsibility. No answer 20 the cable
messages sent TO St Lucia for particulars on
Thursday night had been received up to 6 p. m.
yesterday. when the offices OF the company
closed for the day
The Roraima had three passengers on board.
The numbered about forty. The names Of
the passengers. whose homes in the West
Indies. are +. Ince. Mrs. H ]. Ince and Mrs.
Stokes. After visiting friends I'm this country
they returned homeward when the Rorairna left
New-York April 26 for ST. Thomas. The Ro-
ralma left st. Thomas May . for 81. Croix
and two days later stopped at St Pierre. She
was in command OF Captain Muggah. and had n
cargo of general merchandise. The steamer
owned by the Quebec Steamship Company. Lin
tied, was built in Glasgow. Scotland. by Aitken
Il Mansel in 1893. Her dimensions were $40
feet long and $50 feet BEAM her tonnage.
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The Red Cross Steamship Line had machinery
a sugar mill owner at Martinique The name of
the consignee refused yesterday
l.. w. e. =. Armstrong. OF No. 1O6 Wan-st
owners of the steamship Talisman. Captain
Hanson. received a cabIxfnessage yesterday
from ST. Lucia that no communication could
be obtained with st. Thomas except by sail
boat. The Talisman sailed for Barbados on
April Il AS her owners have learned that she
cleared the West Indies several days ago, they
feel confident she has not been lost.
At the offices of A d. Straus q CO. of No 1S
Broadway. a Tribune reporter was told by a
member of the firm that a cable message had
been received yesterday afternoon from the
manager OF the West India and Panama TeIe-
graph Company al st. Thomas that St Pierre
appeared to have been destroyed by fire from "a
volcano. 1t said nothing. however about the
death rate and 1t was. therefore, urged that it
was a fair presumption that most of the in
habitants had escaped to the mountains.
No cable messages were received at the French
or Danish consuIates yesterday regarding the
volcanic eruption.
The West India and Panama Telegraph Com
pany yesterday advised the Western Union Com
panys central cable office that two steamships
which took kilograms TO Martinique were re-
ported to have been destroyed. The company
was unable. therefore to ascertain whether or
not messages sent by them had been previously
delivered. Dispatches sent by steamship on
Thursday night not delivered, the ship
unable to approach Martinique.
At the office of the Hamburg American Line
H +. DorgeIoh gave Tribune reporter the
result of some of his observations during a visit
IN January to st. Pierre. A popular way the
negroes have in begging is swarm in It's
around every ship that comes In and dive over
board for the money thrown them. The
money is usually recovered before It reaches
the bottom.
The negroes form the greater part of the popu-
lation. Out of about twenty-five thousand In
habitants possibly only one thousand white.
The white folk, French creoles. live outside the
city the hills. All the business is carried on
in the lower end of the town near the haTbor,
where the streets are very narrow. Nearly all
the work is done by negro natives
William A. Eddy. of BayOnne, n. j., said yes
terday that while his eight sesmographs have
recorded earth tremOrs. the press reports
during the Guatemala and Martinique earth
quakes. especially the former, indicated that the
Southern and Eastern States had been invaded
by slight earth tremors especially at Baltimore.
Camden and Woodbury., n. J. He declares that
New York was slightly affected at p m. on
May g. but that the tremOr was so slight that
IL would only be noticed by those looking for
IT, or by those who were situat ted I'm the tops of
the skyscrapers in quiet offices, where one
was talking no typewriting was being done.
Mr. Eddy is OF the opinion il Will be found that
the Martinique earthquake occurred on May &,
the day that he thinks New-York and Camden
were visited by slight tremor.