The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-02
Are Terrified.

Castries, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. l., Sept. 1.-The British steamer Korona arrived here yesterday evening from Fort de France, Island of Martinique She reports that terrible eruption of Mont Pelee occurred at o'clock Sat urday night, and that people who ar northern part of the island reported that the village of Morne Rouge (near the district previously devastated) had been entirely destroyed, and that Le Carbet a village on the coast, close to the southern end of the territory which was destroyed at the time of the great eruption) had been swept by a tidal wave. About two hundred persons lost their lives
 A sloop from the Island of St. Vim cent, which reached here this moaning, reports that Mont Pelee's crater is now quiet, but that the detonations during Saturday night were the loudest heard up to that time, and that the inhabi- tants were terribly alarmed.
 Castries, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. l., Sept. 1.-Mont Pelee has been in con stant eruption since August 15. There was an enormous fall of ashes from the volcano the night of the 18th. There was very severe eruption the night of the 18th. The mountain burned f1ercely that night and out at sea passing ves- sels were covered with ashes. The LIz nhsI- arate eruptions.
 It is impossible to approach the ruin ed town of St. Pierre from the sea. The people of the village of Le Carbet, on the coast, are terror stricken and flying to the interior. Hot water Is pouring down on Lorrain and Basse Pointe. The governor of Martinique has or dered every available boat to remove people from the coast villages to Fort de France.
 Ats o'clock in the evening of the S0th the sky was cloudless. Suddenly one half of the horizon was obscured by black cloud of dust. This cloud was the center of most magnificent electric effects, the flashes of light surpassing the most elaborate fireworks. Flames and flashes continued to burst from the cloud until nearly midnight. Columns of flame shot out of the crater Of Mont Pelee to explode about the cloud in showers of balls of golden fire which fell through the darkness in myriads of sparks. Three large aureoles were seen in the sky over the opening of the era ter.
 
 France and the terrified inhabitants of the port fled in large numbers to the interior. The wave did but slight dam age. At midnight of the Both Mont Pelee was quiet, shortly after that hour there came another shower Of ashes accompanied by vivid sheet lightning.
 In addition to the two hundred re- ported to have lost their lives at Le Carbet and Morne Rouge, many other persons are said to have been killed all over the northern districts of the ;s!- and. The governor of Martinique is be- lieved to have started for the scene of destruction.
 Basse-Terre, Island oS Gaudeloupe, French West Indies, Sunday, Aug. 31- The French Transatlantic Company's steamer Salvador, which has just a-- rived at Pointe-a-Pitre, reports that she left Fort de France. Island of Mar unique, yesterday afternoon, and pass ed Mont Pelee at o'clock the same evening The volcano was then in vio- lent eruption. On approaching the Isl- ands of Les Saintes (snall islands off the south extremity of Guadeloupe) ashes were falling on the vessel. She arrived off Pointe-a-Pitre sat o'clock, but was unable to enter that part until Il o'clock at night, owing to the ob- scurity.