The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-05-13

uchet Friiav morning &-arly every
ohe here has relatives ii Martiniqu-
am intense sorrow prevails. All he
torres here ar losel AMI the flags aI-
Ht.as - half mast. The mountains ~
'1a1tlcnFe ara shroudcd is thteE
clouds and frequent heavy storms have
occurred. The people are on edge rs.b
ah&iety. fearing that Is Sounriere nav
f"come active. light earthquake shock
or a slight increase il the usual SmoE-
ing o. la Soufriere wouli precipita,- RI
ianic here Il is believed, how -rer. TIA,
there is no local danger.
4 TORNADO or FIRE.
The first mate Of tn Foralu.a thus a.
scribes The disaster at s.. Pierre
Between half PAST six ard s-ten
o'clock in the morning on Thursde IS
without warning there came a sort of
"hirlwind 81 steam. boiling nui AMI
ire. which suddenly swept the city and
the roaastead. There were some eighteen
vessels anchored in the harbor including
the Roraima. the French sailing ship
Tamaya, four larger sailing saips ana
others. All Of tn vessels immeGiatcly
canted over and began 70 burn. TIL
Iamaya was a bark from Nantes, Cap
tain Maurice, and was on her way %
Fointe a-Pitre. All the boats EXCEPT tho
Roraima sank instaEtIy and at II same
moment.
Every house ashore was utterly H.
stroyed ana apparently buried under tie
ashes and burning lava. An officer VINO
vas sent ashore penetrated but a short
distance into city. He found only i few
walls standing ana the streets l~itta.
paved with corpses. The Governor Or
the island, who had arrived only 4 fev
hours before the catastrophe. was
killed. Both tho English and American
coEsuls. With their families, We're r.
Icrted 20 have persisted. It is certain
that no more than forty out Of the CITY
thousand people could have escaped.
Tho cruiser Suchet was here yesterday
buying provisions for the survivors in
the outlying districts. She sailed for
Fort de France last night with a large
quantity of stores, which were immcdi-
atelv put under military guard. Negroes
are ticcking in vast numbers into Fort
de France from the surrounding country,
demanding food.
\ telegram from Fort de France says
that hot mud and cinQers rave been
falling all night throughout the island
can still continue doing great damage.
and when the final reports are recciv "A
II Will DC IOulu ia MANY DtOplt l'tNt
been killed or injured III other parts Of
Martinique.
The Quebec Line steamship Korona ar
rived at the Island of Dominica yester-
day, bringing a number of survivors
from her sister ship, the Roraima. The
captain of the Korona says that tho
eruption at st. Pierre was apparently
from a new crater and that accompany
ing the eruption there seemed 20 be a
tidal wave which oyerwhelnse the ship
ping.
A STORM OF ASHES.
A message from the Island of st. Vim
cent says:
The soufriere has been in . state of
eruption for nine consecutive mornings.
or Thursday morning at daybrcaK
there was heavy thunder and lightning,
which soon changed into a continuous,
tremendous roar. Vast columns %
smoke rose over the mountain, becoming
censor and denser. and the sooria-like
hail, changing later to fine dust, fell
upon all the adjacent estates, destroying
a vast amount of property. At Chateau
Belair the ashes We're two feet deep in
the streets. In Kingston they were fully
an inch deep, and many large stones fell
in the parish of Georgetown. The eerth
Snooh Nlolently ana dC loI IL III
the afternoon q midnight Gl"knssS
spread over the country. Thirty Feonie
are known to have been killed and the
damage to property in the wiadWard dis
trict was very heavy.
The storm Ioared about SOufriere all
night without cessation. but on the fol-
lowing morning it became intermittent
and fainter
A report from Barbados says that In
the seventh the sky was very heavily
overcast the heat vas excessive and
there was a distant sound Of thunder.
Later. early in the afternoon, dense
darkness set in and a great quantity or
dust fell end continued falling until q
late hour. No damage is renorted.
The Eruption At st. Vincent.