The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-29

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the wheel II was started Jones got some
-four and sprinkled 1t over the raw sur
faces OF the living men then he put
swee OIL and a coat Of -four On the cap
tains burns. while the ship headed for
St Lucia. Three or four men died OF
their hurts and the shock on the way.
Their bodies were thrown overheard, 10
remove some OF the unbearable stencil
Of burnt flesh. About sunset they reach
/ edSt. Lucia and were all taken 10 hos
pitaL There were 10 upper works left
upon the Roddar1 except the chart room.
What did you Think" Jones was
asked by my friend. the prospector.
II thought God had saved me. I was
calling on him, sir, TO save me. and he
did"
DO you know that you we're one OF a
very few 70 come unhurt out OF a place
where 1900 OF more were killed. I in
CURED
7 do-by the kilograms don't be-
! lieve that any one IN the town escaped /;
I don't see how they could escape, it was
so sudden"
Said the cynical mine prospector. who
+ had had close relations with fever and
death upon the Orinoco river: do you
mean to say that God singled out you
and Fleming, and the English captain.
and a half a dozen others on another
chip as the only persons 70 be saved ont
/ OF 4o.00?"
We were saved. and God saved us.
When I went on deck the captain said,
/ We are in Gods hands; but we viii do
what We can Co down and see If you
can run the engine The soles OF the
hreman's feet had dropped OF. but I
/ lugged him below. and he told me what
( TO co. The captain was talking Of God
ali the time. 7 had. here IN Grenada. a
wife and eleven children, for whom He
/ preserved ne No one viii be a better
man than I hereafter.
You did much towards saving the
I ship" the prospector went on, calculat-
lngly. What did the company do for
/ you?"
The company was very decent. sir.
They paid me wages for ali the time T
was aboaraship. responded the negro,
gratefully They knew I had a large
family. The captain praised me, and the
agent wrote 10 London"
what were your wagss?'
Sixty cents day, sir
I looked at the prospector. expecting
10 see him show the only outward sign
OF sympathy which is natural to him
give the man some silver and tell him to
go and buy a drink. Instead, he said:
Everybody in the tropics is q liar. Al
ways remember that
But no man would lie after passing
alive through what Jones has"
We went to the hospital. where David
Watts. Black Shine and Harry Pig are
being cared for Watts story il credited
as the most exact This was his expe-
rience 81 the first eruption:
He saw a rosy ball shoot up from
Mont Pelee; simultaneously. quarter of
mile distant from the crater. the land
opened and spat out fire. This later
fame increased in size. and ran down
upon d sugar factory, engulhng it, and
overwhelming the cable ship Grappler in
the harbor Watts fed down into the
hold with Tudie Jones and Fleming and
Pig. where they stayed till the sulphur
fumes had almost sunocated them. Re
saw a seaman trying TO climb 10 the
deck and tried 10 give him 4 boost.
The mans legs. when he touched
them. crumbled in his hands. and the
body fen. cremat=d. He tried to lift an
other man 70 give him a drink. but the
man was dead, ard Watts hand sunk
into his body After the fierce whit.
heat men were turned 70 pale ash, ana
though they held thsir human form,
Ike the ash on the end Of a good cigar,
grated at touch or q sudden jar
Going on deck for air he found corpses
half covered with lava. There were
shrieks from men stiu sensible OF suffer
ing and in the water many were crying
out in agony. clinging 20 life buoys- They
had jumped 10 water 20 escape burning.
but the water vas boiling-those who
Jumped were boiled TO death. So great
was the temperature Of the air that the
anchor chain was heated red, and
stretched and snapped easily when the
tidal wave came
When this recital was finished I knew
it was al right for the prospector's
hand went slyly down inco his pocket
and then conveyed something TO the
palm Of the bandaged black one on the
cot
soon afterwara We saw Fleming. an
unaurt survivor. he could add very lit
tie 10 our understanding Of What happen
Cd Martinique He was asked:
Did Yudie Jones run the engine to
porte"
~Nor he declared This fireman ran
the engine. We lifted him about. as his
fcer were burned OF Jones does not
know how T. speak she truth. he comes
of a common family Two = his broth
ers are in Jail"
This vas true The lenses fer genera
lions have been Iawless and disre2uta-
bic people. SO the Scotch minister told US
So remarked the prospector. one
o. the attendant marveis OF the catas-
trophe is The character 90 the persons
not destroyed. The only one saved in
the town was q convicted felon IN pris-
on. IN the haraor there was Jones. who
was shown the gates o. he'll. yet can
come hack ard remain a lar. And YET
CT yesterdays memorial service. The An
slican r-ctor-s text was Sodon and Co.
norrah. ana he said rhs, the disasters
heavens visit,tloas on the slaful ?. C.
Few q the people Of st Pierre were
pure black. ard most OF them showed
only a trace OF negro blood-
Panic Breeding
St Paul. Dispatch Secretary Shaw .
said recently thar he American people !
can not stand prosperity. And he spoke r
The truth The average American IS
gambler Fer he is a born specula;er and (
speculation is EambA7g When tines are
good and wealth accumuiates desire for
raging Investments creates demand ard
that reacts III advancing prices This {