The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-05-16
UNDER VOLCANOES FIERY FLOOD
RAIN OF FIRE AND ASHES COM
PLETELY WIPES OUT CITY
OF ST. PIERRE.
GllMPsts OF HE'LL ON EARTH
UNITED STATES CONSUL ANL
FAMILY REPORTED AMONG
THE VICTIMS.

OA1ANASAAS
from Dominica that schooner which
has arrived there from the Island of
Martinique reports that over 10000 peo-
ing the volcanic disturbance in Mar
Unique. The cable repair steamer
!, grappler, belonging to the West India
& Panama Telegraph Company of Lon
don, was lost with all hands during the
eruption of Mount Pelee at ST. Pierre,
Martinique. The Grappler was one of
the first ships to disappear.
Forty Thousand Lives Lost.
St. Thomas, D. w. l., May lot is
now estimated that 10000 persons per-
ished as result of the volcanic erup-
ton in the Island of Martinique. The
British schooner Ocean Traveller of St.
John, N. B., arrived at the Island Of
Dominica, 3. w. l., at 3 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. She was obliged to flee
from the Island Of st. Vincent, B. w. T.,
during the afternoon of Wednesday,
May Z, in consequence of heavy fall
of sand from a volcano which
Was EruptinS There.
She tried to reach the Island of St.
Lucia, Is. w. l., but adverse currents
prevented her from so doing: The
schooner arrived opposite st. Pierre,
Martinique, Thursday morning. While
about a mile off the volcano Mount
Pelee) exploded and fire from it swept
the whole town of St. Pierre Destroy
ing the town and the shipping there. in
Guiding the cable repair ship Grappler,
which was engaged in repairing the
cable near the Guerin factory. The
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Dominica encountered a quantity of
Wleckage.
Only Twenty Escaped.
Washington, May 10.-The following
cablegram has just been received at
the state department, dated Pointe-a-
Pitre:
Eat o'clock a. m. on the Sth inst. 4
storm of steam, mud and fire envel-
oped the city and community. Not
more than twenty persons escaped with
their lives. Eighteen vessels were
burned and sunk with all on board, in
GLIDING four American vessels and a
steamer from Quebec named Roraima.
The United States consul and family
are reported among the victims. A war
vessel has come to Guadeloupe for pro-
visions and will leave at 5 tomorrow.
-"Ayme, Consul"
The state department has been re-
ceiving dispatches from commercial
houses in New York asking that war;
ship be sent at once to Martinique to
afford relief. The matter is under con-
sideration.
St. Pierre Completely Wiped Out.
London, May 10.-A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Pointe-a -Pitre, Island
Of Guadalupe, F. w. l., dated yester-
day, says:
1.-The Montpelee (St. Pierrc) crater
elected yesterday morning molten rocks
and ashes during three minutes and
completely destroyed st. Pierre and the
districts within a radius Of four miles.
All the inhabitants were burned. About
eight passengers from the Roraima, of
the Quebec Steamship line. We're saved
by the French cruiser Suchet. The in
habitants of the southern district Of
the island who. were dependent upon St.
Pierre for provisions are menaced by
famine
Glimpxcs Of HELL
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Jamaica says:
"rhe first intimation Of n disaster
lat Martinique was the breaking of the
cables on Tuesday. The French cable
to Martinique from Puerto Plata, was
broken Wednesday. Cable communica-
ton with all the northern islands is
stopped. The survivors of the British
steamer Roddan. describe the scene at
ST. Pierre as being 'glimpses of herr,
beggarng description. The Roddam' S
men were chiefly killed by molten lava.
The Roraima was wrecked in a terrible
upheaval of land and sea. The whole
crew persisted. Two ships We're lost
with all on board in an attempt to APP
pcOacl Martinique"