The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-16
WORLD HELD AT BAY
No One Can Approach Within Eight
Miles Of SOufriefe Volcano.
FISSURES ERECTING VApOR
The Subtefranean Rambling Indicates
Continued Unrest
N0Xl0US GASES CAUSING DISEASE
Every Hut in the Country Contains De.
cayed Bodies.
HORRIBLE STENCIL REPELS REScuERS.
Starvation Threatens the Survivors, and
1t Is Still Impossible to Estimate
the Number OF Lives Lost,
STENCIL REPfLS REScuERS.

been able to approach within eight miles
of the new crater Of the Soufrlere volcano,
But, Judging from what can be seen from
a considerable distance the old lake at the
summit Of the mountain has disappeared.
The numerous assures In the mountain
sides continue to throw out vapor, and the
subterranean murmurngs and tremblings
Indicate continued unrest During the
afternoon Of Monday denso volume Of
steam and smoke rose from the volcano and
the whole island was covered by Pc
cular mist The Inhalation Of noxlous
yapors here is increasing the spread Of
sickness,
An ambulance corps from the Island OF
Barbadoe has arrived here. Starvation
threatens the poorer classes Of the afflicted
district. Nearly every remaining negro
hut In the Carib country contains decayed
bodies. and the horrible stencil is driving
people away. Mutiated bodies are tied
with ropes and dragged to the trenches,
where they are buried. Sometimes bodies
are cremated The local government is
feeding and sheltcring about 5000 refugees.
Subscriptions for the relief Of the sufferers
are being raised in all the British West
Indian islands.
The St Vincent eruption Is vastly more
extensive than the Pelees. samuel Rem
shaw, the only person here who wit
messed the outburst of the volcano at Its
height says the eruption was more severe
than at Mont Pelee.
At st. Pierre the dead lie in ~ mnnner
of attitudes, ana | believe they died
without much suffering. Most Of them
were probably smothered at once by the
sulphurous gases
The chief engineer of the steamer Rod
dam "N&s out this theory. He was sit
ting in a chair reading a book and facing
the volcano when the deadly blast came,
and when the steamer had run through
the storm Of fre he was found dead stlll
In the chair. and with the warped frlg.
| mcnts Of his book still cutched in his
hand.
! The situation in st. Vincent is velcd
I behind wall Of fire. Nobody can ap-
/ proach the nelghborhood Of the volcano Of
/ Soufriere, and it Is certain that all within
radius of several miles OF the hre-sGout
! ing mountain are dead. Among the other
victims are the last of the CRrib aborlsines
of these Islands.
Word Of the destruction of the Carih
village, which was In the valley near the
center of the death zone on st. Vincent
was brought here by Mr.. Renshaw. In the
Spanish islands the aborignes were all
killed of, but the British fostered the rem
nant on St. Vincent and helped them t
maintain the village There we're only q
few dozen Of them.
SO this volcanic upheaval has wiped a
race from the earth, for there is not now
Carib alive In the world.
There is intense suffering all over 81
Vincent The streams are filled with lava
and the people are dying OF thirst.
The vessels OF all nations now In thes
waters are apprehenslye that the chan
nels have changed, and there must be new
reefs to correspond with the enormous sub
sIdcnce of the seas bed. which dropped
600 fathoms of the coast OF Martinique.
A theory is that the terrific casting on
of material from the bowels of the eartl
tom OF the sea fell TO I'LL. The waters
receded from the coast 300 feet after tn
eruption leaving the bottom exposed un
I'll rush, much slower, covered 1t again
II may be that this rush Of water was t.
MI the hole caused by the sinking OF tn
ocean floor.
Kingston, Island OF St Vincent, British
West Indies, Monday, May 12.-sccntlsti
who have come here from the British lslant
of Trinidad predict another volcanic erup
ton on 81. Vincent within short lime
The damage done 70 St. Vincent by thu
volcanic eruption is now known to be con
siderably greater than was at first ostl
mated. The present uneasiness Of the in
habltants of the island Is Increased by ib
continuous agitation Of the volcanic crp;ers
Fridny morning, May 0, large stones an'
volcanic dust fen in the nelghborhood o
Georgetown for two hours. terrifying TN
people there A cloud Of hot yapor thol
pissed over that port. Two eruptions {
less magnitude than the first occurred sat
urday, May 10 and from then until toda,
Ire and smoke have been ascending al In
torvals from the crateTs.
Interesting discoveries have been mad
regarding the physical changes on St, Viz
cent resulting from the eEuptions.
Several assures have been observed 0
Ia soufriere. The estate OF Waiibou ha
/ dIsappeared and has been replaced by n