The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-04
MONT PELEE'S AWFUL WORK
1860 PEOPLE KILLED BY LAST
 SATURDAYS ERUPTION.
Zone of Distraction ParaIIeIed That Which Wiped Out St. Pierre and It Spread Some Five Miles More Eastward The Outbreak Described as the Most Violent Yet Experienced.

Castries Island of St. Lucia, British West Indies,, Sept. 3.-The zone of de- struction of Saturday nights eruption of Mont Pelee, Island of Martinique, parallelled that which destroyed the town of St. Pierre in May last, but it spread some five miles more eastward. The protection of destructive matter southward from Mont Pelee was almost identical with last of last May. The area embraced Morne Rouge, the southern spur of Mont Pelee, on which beautiful hill was the sanitarium of St. Pierre, dividing the Capote and Champs Dore valleys on the east and Ajoupa Bouillon and Marie Refine on the west, the market gardens and cattle farms which supplied St. Pierre. The inhab- itants were removed from this area, and also from the villages of Lorrain and Basse POinte, at the base of Mont Pelee, after the May catastrophe, but they were sent back by the government last week.
 The gendarmerie of Martinique off, cially report that 1860 persons were killed and 150 were injured by the last showers of fiery hail. Warships and steamers are taking the inhabitants from the coast villages, where people from inland places have also gathered for safety.
 Survivors who have reached Fort-de- France describe the eruption as being l the most violent yet experienced, The detonations are heard at the island of St. Kitts.
 The St. Vincent volcano (the Sou friere) was in eruption simultaneously Awful detonations were heard along the southern islands of Trinidad. At St Lucia, forty miles from either volcano
 no tremors were felt, and no detonations
 were heard. though the eruptions were
 distinctly visible from here.
 Paris, Sept. 3.-The ministry of the
 ccolonies received this afternoon an un'
 dated dispatch from Fort de France
 Martinique, reported the details of the
 last eruption of Mont Pelee. The de- Istructive radius extended into the inter
 for of the island. During the night ot
 August 30, 31 Morne Rouge, Ajoups
 Bouillon, Morne Bondon, and the vii
 lages of Balai, Capot and Bellevue were | destroyed. lHe u1SpdI ICU lul lLCL tlAA'
 nounced that there were 1000 victims
 500 of whom are dead. In the morning
 of August 31 assistance and troops were
 sent to this region, Governor Lemair' going on the French cruiser Suchet t'
 evacuate Grande Riviere and Macouba whence he brought 1000 sufferers tt Fort-de- France. The French cruise Tage rescued the inhabitants of tn northern regions. so far as St. Pierre where there were no victims. The governor of Martinique has takei measures to give employment to thos
 who are able to work and to create cen
 ters of refuge in order to avoid over crowding Fort de France, which has no suffered from the recent eruption. The same phenomena were noticed a at the time of the eruption of May last The sea rose a metre and half, but . did not cause any damage.
 , Basse Terre, Island of Gaudeloupe , French West Indies, Sept. 3, p. m.- , public the following statement concern . ing the eruption of Mont Pelee:
 At noon of August 30 violent erup f tion of Mont Pelee discharged dens f black cloud of dust. The edge of thi
 cloud almost reached Fort de France 6 but it was forced slowly back by con
 trary winds. Dull rumblings were hearc At 9:30 o'clock of the night of the 13t
 the sky was again hidden by simila cloud, lit up with lumnous spots ( vivid lightning. The rumbling noise o | continued for over two hours. A tids " wave entered For de France for dist a ance of about sixty feet from the shor
 destroying and washing away plankin - and jetties. This tidal wave did grear f CT damage at Grand Anse Con the mort shore of the island) where sever; a houses were destroyed. The fearmat il dened people of Grand Anse fled tt wards the hills.
 According to the latest official infol if nation the exact number of persor if who were killed by the volcano is n' II vet known.