New-York tribune., 1902-05-10
FEARS FOR OTHER ISLANDS
LATEST NEWS FROM ST. VINCENT WAS
ESPECIALLY ALARMING-CA-
BLES BROKEN.

Kingston. Jamaica, May 9-All the islands in
the neighborhood of Martinique are isolated. ap-
parently by an earthquake Cable communica-
tion with ST. Vincent. BARBADOS, Grenada. Trini-
dad Demerara and ST. Lucia is interrupted.
London May 9.-Gover=or Llewelyn OF the
windward IslanGs teIegraphed to-day from the
island of ST. Lucia, TO the Colonial Office, as
follows:
No rCws from the island Of st. Vincent From
what l saw on the passage TO St Lucia. fear
the eruption of SOufrere is very serious. The
cables to Grenada and st. Vincent are broken.
The Colonial Office here also received dis
patch from Sir Robert Llewelyn dated from
Kingston, st. Vincent. yesterday. in which the
Governor says that the Soufriere volcano. in
the northwestern part of the island of St Vim
cent. continued in activity. Earthquake shocks
had REQUIRED for week past, but not actually
in Kingston. on Wednesday big cloud OF
steam hung over the Soufriere, and the inhabi-
tants who were greatly alarmed. were focking
to Chateau Belair. There were already three
hundred refugees there, who were being fed by
the authorities.
With the exception Of a dispatch repeating the
news brought to the island of St Lucia yester-
day afternoon by the British steamer Roddam.
which announced the total destruction of the
town of st. Pierre. island of Martinique. by
volcanic eruption. the English merchants and
shippers here having trade relations with Mar
Unique have received direct news of the
catastrophe. Even the owners of the Roddam.
which forced to slip her anchors at st.
Pierre in order to escape, and which badly
damaged in getting away, seventeen of her
crew being killed, have not heard from the cap
tain Of that steamer.
a former resident of 81. Pierre, in this
city. says there were about enc thousand white
people among the inhabitants Of the destroyed
town.
The cable companies have received nothing
except vague messages saying the cable is in
terrupted owing 10 the volcanic eruption
The Colonial Office is without word from
Martinique except that a grave disaster. the
extent of which is not mentioned. has occurred
and the receipt of a repetition of the steamer
Roddams news. The belief exists here that the
British West Indian islands of Dominica and
St Vincent have also suffered severely All
messages to these islands sent at sender's
risk, and cipher dispatches are accepted
A dispatch from ST, Thomas, Danish West Indies.
dated May = said that advices received there that
morning from the island of St. Vincent announced
that for some days earthquakes had been expert
enCed in the neiEhborhoOd Of the SoufTiere crater
which had been smoking and rumbling. The people
in the vicinity of the volcano were leaving for
places of safety This St Thomas dispatch further
set forth that cable communication with the island
Of Martinique was interrupted the morning OF
May : and that cable communication southwark
from St Lucia in the Windward Islands ceased
/ suddenly the same afternoon.
II was also reported that the Volcan craters on
the island of Dominica were showing signs of ac-
tivity.
y ridge of high. well wooded volcanic hills
stretches through the island of St Vincent from
north to south. The Soufriere volcano has had
some tremendous erupuonS- The height OF the
volcano is three thousand feet above the level
and its crater is three miles In circumference and
| is five hundred feet deep
Volcanic rocks and hot springs abound on the
island of Dominica. where there are large deposits
! OF sulphur.