The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-12


 rine, M. De Lanessan, to-day received
 of the French cruiser Suchet, dated
 Fort de France, Martinique saying
 that he conducted search at St.
 Pierre yesterday. The captain reports
 that the town is now a. mere heap of
 smoking ruins under which the victims
 of the catastrophe are buried. The Suchet was able to convey some of the inhabitants of Le Precheur to Fort de
 France. but could not reach the north
 ernmost part of the island. on account
 of the dense rain of ashes which was
 falling.
 The captain of the Suchet further re-
 ported that the Mont Pelee volcano 1 still had a threatening aspect yester-
 day morning. Subterranean rumblings
 were still heard, flashes of flame ire
 quently belched from the volcano and
 stones were thrown out with immense l force.
 l A dispatch received at the colonial office here to-day from Fort de France says there is no doubt Governor Mout- tet and the commander of the troops at St. Pierre. Colonel Dain, are dead. | Other despatch confirm the reports l that the American and British consuls and their families perished. | M. Bloch inspector of finance. and M. Labarthe, the colonial minister's s secretary, who have heen despatched by the government to Martinique, sail ed from Brest to-day on board the French cruiser D'Assas, which carries money, provisions and other stores for the relief of the Martinique sufferers. A French cable official who went to St. Pierre reports that the company's office has been burned to ashes and that there is no trace of the staff. This official adds that the cremation of the bodies of the victims has begun and that the cable steamer Pouyer- -Quertier is proceeding to repair the Northern cable.
 The waves of lava are still reported to be flowing northward. They have extended even to Le Carbet
 The candidates for election to the French chamber of deputies who per ished at Pierre were NM. Perein and Le Clerc.
 The colonial minister has organized relief distribution committee, consisting of himself and M. De Crais former col onial minister, the colonial members of the chamber of deputies, the colonial senators and a number of commercial men. The first meeting of this com mittee will occur Tuesday.
 The British ambassador, Sir Edmund l.. Monson, called at the Elysee Palace ,ff ,,,,i, 4-J President Loubet personally the sympa- thy of King Edward
 Paris, May 1.-The Temps to-day re- ferring to the destruction at St Pierre. says: We believe from the information received here, from the island of Mar unique" (meaning doubtless, the off, cial dispatches) that the disaster sur passes all that imagination can con- ceive. The whole northeastern portion of the islaid is laid waste. Three large communities, exclusive of St. Pierre have been destroyed. The victims com prise two candidates for to-day's bal loting for members of the chamber of deputies"
 A dispatch received here to-day from Fort de France, Martinique, says: "All the hills surrounding Le Carbet and I4e Precheur (near St. Pierre) are covered with refugees, to the number of about 5000. who are being taken away grad ually. Tn the meanwhile provisions are being conveyed to them.
 "Of the thirty persons who were originally rescued by the French cruiser Suchet the majority were fearfulIy burned and nine died while on their way to the hospital.
 "The corpses which are heaped in the ruins of St. Pierre are not only com petely naked but are frightfully mutl- ated."
 Fort de France, Island of Martinique May 10.--Advices received here to-day from the vicinity of St Pierre (ten miles from here) contain further de ails | of the terrible volcanic upheaval which | resulted in the utter destruction of that | town and the death of nearly all it's in- 
 The crater of Mont Pelee has been | wearing it's smoke cap" since the 3d of | May, but there was nothing until last i to indicate that there was the | slightest danger On that day stream of boiling lava burst through the top of | the crater, plunged into the valley of | the river Blanche, overwhelming the | Guern sugar works and killing twenty three work people and the son of the 
 A commission was appointed by the governor to investigate the outbreak. and 1t returned reassuring report on "Wednesday evening, But about eight