The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-14
The Desolation and the Awful Stencil from
Burning Flesh Indescribable.
CYCLONE OF VOLCANIC GAS SHATTERED TO
ATOMS EVERYTHING IN IT'S PASSAGE.
1t Is Estimated that the Total Number of Dead on
the Island of ST. Vincent from Soufrere
Eruption Has Reached 2ooo

Provisions are needed here Immediately
for 10000 people.
A shpload OF lime is also needed at st.
Pierre for sanitary purposes. The stencil
there from the dead bodies is overpowerlng
Mont Pelee was In eruption at late
hour last night
The French cruiser Suchet is here and
the city of Fort dc France Is quiet. 1t was
reported here yesterday from the British
island of Dominica that 300 survivors Of
the ST. Pierre disaster had reached there
in canoes
Many strange and incomprehenslble Incl
dents are recounted of st. Pierre. The
charred remains Of woman with a silk
handkerchief unburned and In perfect con-
dition, held to her lips have been found
there. The crisped bodies Of young girls
have been found but the shoes that they
wore were unhurt.
Every praise Is given United States
Consul Aymee He has worked indefatiga.
bly, to succor the survivors. He has ban
daged the limbs of wounded and has
worked without sleep and without food lie
Is now thoroughly exhausted.
In addition to the specie already secured,
jewels to the value OF 1000, 900 francs were
rescued from the bank OF st. Pierre yester-
day. The Italian consul at Barbados had
recovered the body OF his daughter, who
was visiting in st. Pierre at the time OF the
disaster.
Margaret Stokes, the 9-year-old daughter
of the late Clement Stokes of New York,
who with her mother, a brothop1 Nxd and
sister aged 3, was on the Inflated British
eli lie ita
| The clild is not expected to live. Her
nurse, Clara King, says she was ia her
stateroom when the steward OF tho Roraima
called out to her; Look at Mont PeIee!"
She was on deck and saw a vast mass Of
black cloud coming down from the volcano.
! The steward ordered her to return 10 ,he
/ saloon, saying; 1T is comirgw
| Miss King then rushed to the saloon.
She says she experienced feeling Of suf.
. location, which was followed by intense
heat
The after part of the Roraimn, who Is
now in the hospital here severely burned,
insisted Miss King and Margaret stokes TO
escape. with the help Of Mr.. Scott, the
first mate OF the Roraima, ne constructed
a raft with life prcsewers Upon this Miss
King and Margaret were placed
While this was being done Margaret's III.
tle brother died Shortly after the death
OF the little boy. Mrs. Stokes succunbed
Margaret and Miss King eventually gn
away on the raft and were picked up by
the steamer Korona, Mate Scott also
escaped.
Miss King covered the face Of Margaret
with her dress, but stln the child was prob
ably fatally burned.
The only woman known to have survived
the disaster at st. Pierre was negres
named Flottc, She was found in a celaI
, Saturday afternoon, where she had been fo
three days. She was stll ulyc, but fear
fully burned from head to toes. She dlet
4 IN the hospital here
; St Thomas, D. W, H. May 13.-The Dan
ish cruiser yalkyrien has taken on boart
500 refugees from the north and noriheas
) coasts Of the Island OF Martinique.
The French cruiser suchet has rescue,
, 2OoO persons from Martinique and tn
French cable repair steamer Pouyer Quer
tier has saved numbers Of the sufferer
from the volcanIc outbreak there
All the rescued persons have been take
. to Fort de France.
4 Only one man escaped from the jail a
ST. Pierre when that town was over
whelmed by the how Of lava from Mon
r Pelee.
The stencil from the unburied corpscs a
, st. Pierre Is still almost lntolerable, az
/ cordlng to the advlces received here an
+ the desolatlon is Undesirable.
1t Is reported at st. Thomas that tn
: French bank at ST. Pierre transferred it
!. funds and books to tho suchet prior to III
catastrophe.