Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-05-19
ST. V1NCENT'S PLIGHT
Horritying Details of Disaster Are
Daily Being Revealed.
CLEARING UP KINGSTON N.
Eighty-seven COrpses Discovered In
n Small shop - La SOufrieres
Eruption Compared with
That of Mont Pelee.

Kingstown, st. Vincent, May 19.-ln
| the absence of symptoms of further
eruptions of the volcano Of Sonfrlere
| the inhabitants o.. st. Vincent are grad
| ually becoming settled.
The most horrifyng details of the
condition of the Garth country, where
thousands Of cattle and human cOrpseS
lay in /! state of decomposition, are re-
vealed Although the number of deaths
in the island due to the disaster is esti-
mated. Judging from the missing inhab-
itants. at 1900. up to the night of May
IL ONLY 1.2GS bodies had been buried.
The undiscovered bodies are probably
covered with lava.
In small shop which was opened
three days after the eruption eighty
seven decaying corpses were discover
ed. and not one of them was recogniza-
BILE. In the dwelling house of the man
ager of one of the estates s5irty corpses
were found in similar condhion, and
other sckening discoveries have been
made. The district is besng RAPIDLY
cleared A number of patients have
been brought to the city. OF sthese
many are suffering from fractured
skulls caused by the stones thrown
from the volcano, and a majority of
them We're burned by the lava thrown
up with the vapor.
Another COnvulsiOn.
ypl> cl; onnx,,1cion
followed by small discharge of smoke
from the crater but this cQAsed no
alarm. The weather is fine. and the eX-
element is abating. The bed of lava
in the windward district is still hot
The abyss 500 feet deep and 200 feet
wide which existed between Langly
park and Rabacci is filled with lava,
and aside from vegetation the physical
features of the mountain on either side
are apparently more beautiful than be-
fore the eruption.
A curious circumstance connected
with the eruption is that the earth
quakes were not general notwithstand-
ing the smallness of the island. While
az SHutCuu 1DCluu tIlt NOIIN ulSIOlS pre-
ceding the eruption Of May We're al
most continuous every few hours, in
Kingstown and Georgetown only sixty
shocks were felt in four hours.
Lava Covers Wide Area.
Although attended with smaller loss |
of life, the eruption of La Soufriere was
not less violent than that of Mont Pc |
lee, in the island of Martinique The |
area covered by lava here comprises |
sixteen square miles. The fact that the |
loss of life and damage to property in
st. Vincent We're smaller than in Marti- |
nique is due to the position of La Sou
friere and the smaller population of the !
district, the mountain Overhanging sug-
ar and arrowroot estates and couple
of thinly populated villages whose in
habitants were given warning of the
approaching disaster and fl,d for their
lives. All the villagers WIN remained
were killed.
The officials of st. Vincen are busy
relieving the sufferers and husing the
sick and homeless The problem now
facing the government is hoy to pro-
vide permanently for the NATIVES who
lost houses, lands and everything they
possessed. Peasant settlement nav be
formed on the estates, the lnds of
which the government possesses the
legal machinery to- appropriate, but
money is needed to assist the ettlers
to build houses thereon and to loyide
them with sustenance during theculti-
walton Of their land.