The Topeka state journal., 1902-05-15
BURNING THE DEAD.
Work of Cleaning Up st. Pierre
is in Progress.

New York May 15.-In the destroyed
city of St Pierre the work among the
ruins is being continued. says a Fort
de France dispatch to the Herald.
The dead are being burned. the pyres
being fed with petroleum and tar.
Great fires are kept going, which at
night light up the entire island, ana
which being seen at St Lucia led TO
the belief that Fort de France had
burned.
Although thousands have been
burned, many still remain to be ere
mated. Searchers. While walking
through the ashes. often step upon
what appears to be a charred pillar OF
stone only to learn as it yields grue-
somely underfoOt, that it is a trunk of
another unfortunate.
Some Of the walls of the houses that
still stand crumble and fall a touch.
Some idea of the terrible heat that
poured down from Mont Pelee may be
mad when it is known that the iron
rollers of the Prynel1e sugar mills were
melted as though they had been put
through a furnace.
But ONE LEFT.
New York, May 15.-Margaret Stokes,
the 9-year-old child who is one of the
survivors Of the steamship ROraimis,
which was destroyed at St. Pierre, Is
the only remaining member of a family
of five that lived in Brooklyn up to a
few months ago.
The child's father was Clement
Il
at Barbados. but later a bookkeeper
for a department store in Brooklyn.
Stokes died recently, and the widow de-
cided to return to the home of a wealthy
sister in Barbados
The widow packed her property, and
with q faithful colOred nurse, Clara
King, who had been with the family
in Barbados, she started on the jour
ney that was to be the last undertaken
by the family.
STEAMED THROUGH FLOATING
BODIES.
New York. May 15.-The Danish war
ship Nalkyrien has returned from Fort
de France. says a St. Thomas, D w. l.,
dispatch to the Tribune The officers
confirm previous reports of having
steamed through countless floating
bodies on the water to Fort de France.
STILL IN ERUPTION.
Castries, Island of St. Lucia, May IS
The British steamer Savan, Captain
Hunter, arrived here this morning and
reports Mont Pelee to be still in erup-
ton. The trend of the flow from the
volcano is to the north
The search parties which are remOv-
ing the dead from st. Pierre have dis
covered safes and molten precious metal
IA stores and dwellings of the town. No
one IS permitted to penetrate into st.
Pierre beyond the Strand running along
the sea front, and a Gordon OF soldiers
has been placed around the town. The
St. Pierre cathedral is all down with
theater the walls alone are now stand
ing.
The convent which contained 200 girls
and Sc nuns, has disappeared, as has the
college, where 20 boys and p priests
and professors were dOmiciled.
ESCAPED BY FLIGHT
London. May 15.-The correspondent
of the Daily Mail at Barbados, B. W.
l.. who visited st. Pierre on board the
Royal Mail steamer SOlent. has learned
from a DR. Artier, who miraculously es-
capped the disaster that when the COVER
nor of Martinique NJ. L. Mouttet, and
the insular officials had declared that
all danger from an eruption of Mont
Pelee was past, Gordon of armed SOL
diers and policemen was placed around
The town to prevent the people from
leaving DR.. ArtieT. however went to
the suburb of MornerOuge. He was
riding back TO St. Pierre when the ex-
plosion occurred He then fed precipi-
lately across the mountains to Fort de
France
With the exception of prisoner who
was confined in dungeon a the time
of the explosion DR.. Artier is really the
sole survivor Of St. Pierre.
KILLICK IS FOR FIRMIN.
Cape Haytien Hayti, May 15.-The
Haytien gunboat Crete-a-Pirot arrived
here today with Admiral Killick COM
mander of the fleet of Hayti, who has
declared himself in favor of the can
didacy Of General Firmin. on board.
His other warship, the Toussaint Lou
venture. is at GOnaiVes.
The admiral says that after former
President Sam embarked on the French
steamer Olinde Rodriguez at Port au
Prince. Tuesday last. he ran the Crete
a-PirOt near the Olinde ROdriglez and
saluted the former president with II
guns, and that he then fired three shots
as an alarm signal and cried "Vive le
nordi Long live the north" All is
quiet here.