The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1902-05-14
ST. PIERRE DISASTER
Details Receive Picture the Scene
Worse Day by Day.
ESCAPES ARE FEW
I've Thousand Dead on 81. Vincent 10
land from the Ernptier Of La
SOufriere-Praise Given to
United States Consul.

pended. The people of the city have
assembled in the churches and the
cathedral where special services are
being held for the ST. Pierre dead,
have been thronged since daylight
The United States government tug
Potomac has left here for the island OF
ST. Vincent, where conditions are re-
ported to be worse. La Soufriere on
st. Vincent was in full eruption May
10, stream of stone and mud half
q mile wide was then issuing from the
volcano. Stones two inches in diane
ter fell twelve miles away.
At Kingstown, the capital Of the is
land. the ashes were two inches deep
Seven hundred dead were reported
Sunday, May IL 1t is estimated that
the total number of dead on St Vim
cent now reaches 1000. Most Of the
estates on the island have been burn
ed to ashes and 1t Is automatically re-
ported that two earthquakes occurred
there. 1t is believed the submarine
cables In St Vincent have been broken
by the disturbances
The present volcanic eruption Of St
Vincent is the first since 1872.
Provisions are needed here imme-
diately for 100000 people A shipload
of lime Is also needed al St Pierre
for sanitary purposes The stencil
there from the bodies is overpowering
Mont Pelee is still erupting smoke
and fire
The French cruiser Suchet Is here
and the city of Fort de France Is
quiet.
II is reported here from the British
Island Of Dominica that three hundred
survivors OF the St Pierre district had
reached there in canoes.
Many strange and inoomprehensibie
incidents are recounted Of St. Pierre
The charred remains of woman with
silk handkerchief unburned and in
perfect condition held TO her lips have
been found there The crisped bodies
OF young girls have been found but
the shoes they wore were unhurt,
Every praise Ia given United States
Consul Ayme He has worked indie
fatigably TO succor the survivors. He
has bandaged the limbs Of wounded
and has worked without sleep and
without food. He Is now thoroughly
exhausted.
In addition to the specie already se-
cured, jewels TO the value OF 900 900
francs were rescued from the Bank OF
St Pierre
The Italian consul at Barbados has
recovered the body of his daughter.
who was visiting in ST Pierre al the
time OF the disaster.
Margaret Stokes, the s-vear-o,d
daughter OF the late Clement Stokes,
OF New York. who, with her mother a
brother, aged four. and q sister aged
three, was on the Inflated British
steamer Roraima, Is In the hospital
here. The child Is not expected TO live.
Her nurse, Clara King. says she was
IN her stateroom when the stewart OF
the Roraima called out to her: Look
! At Mont Pelee." She went on deck and
saw vast mass OF black cloud COM
ing down from the volcano. The stew
ard ordered her TO return to the sa-
loon, saying 1T is coming"
MISS King then rushed to the "a.
loon. She says she experienced a
feeling of sufYocation, which was fol.
lowed by intense heat The after mart
OF the Roraima then broke out In
flames. Ben Benson, the carpenter of
| the Rorafma, who is now In the hos.
pital here severely burned. assisted
Miss King and Margaret Stokes 10
escape. With the help OF Mr.. Scott.
| the first mate of the Roraima he con.
structed raft with life preseryers.
Upon this Miss King and Margaret
were placed. While this was being
done Margaret's little brother died,
Shortly after the death OF the little
boy, Mrs. Stokes suecumbed. Marga.
ret and Miss King eventually got
away on the raft and were picked up
by the steamer Korono. Mate Scott
| also escaped.
Miss King covered the face of Mar
garet with her dress, but still the
child was probably burned
The only woman known to have sur.
FifEu tue uI5ASStE at ol. PleFrG was
| negress, named Filotte. She was
found in a cellar Saturday afternoon
where she had been for three 6ays.
She was still alive but fearfully burn
ed from head to toes. She died in
the hospital here.
The path of the volcanic torrent
which swept over ST. Pierre fs
marked out In strange manner. The
vicinity OF the shore where vessels
anchored was swept by whiriwind
OF volcanic gas which ripped, tore and
shattered everything in its passage
but left few traces of cinders behind.
On the other hand the fort, center
and adjoining parts of st. Pierre are
buried un.ler thick layer of cinders
which consumed everything beneath
it,
The United States tug Potomac.
which came to Martinique from San
Juan, p. R., cruised along the coast
Of this island Monday afternoon. She
encountered an inky column OF smoke
which made II necessary for her 10
no four miles out of her course.
Words fail TO describe the present
situation at ST. Pierre. A small de-
aashsnant nj French fro0ns Is making