The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-13

frightful explosion was heard up the
mountain A cloud of fire, topping
and roaring, swept with lightning
speed down the mountain side and
over the town and bay. The storm of
fire lasted not more than five min
utes. The Roraima was nearly sunk
and caught fire at once.
81 can never forget the horrid, fiery,
choking whirlwind which enveloped
me-" said Mr.. Evans. sMr. Morris
and rushed below. We are not very
badly burned. not so bad as most Of
them. When the fire came we we're
going to our posts to weigh anchor and
get out. When we came up we
found the ship afire aft and fought it
chet came to our rescue. We were
then building raft"
From the Italian ship Teresa Lovi-
co several men were saved, but they
are in a frightful state except Jean
Prudent of St. Pierre. Although on
deck and unprotected he was little
burned. Prudent says there was an
awful noise of explosion and right
away a cyclone of smoke and fire,
but such was the poisonous, choking
nature of the smoke that it burned
worse than the fire. When it struck
people they fell dead. The cyclone
of gas tore the masts out of ships,
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them. Soon afterwards came a wave
of fire bigger than the smoke cloud
"That cloud" continued Prudent
was bigger, it seemed, than the noun
tain. The fire burned nearly every
where at once. Near me saw only
dead men; but on shore 1 saw men
and women rushing back and forth
amid the flames for an hour. They
would not run long. Then came that
choking smoke and they would drop
| like dead flies. The explosion, smoke
and fire all came and went in three
minutes, but the city burned for three
hours. Then every house was finished
| and nothing alive was left. At &c
| time We're there any earthquakes, but
| big stones were rained down and fire
fell like rain for long time
In separate part of the hospita
were found several persons saved
| from Carbet village, four miles from
St. Pierre The village of Urine
south of St. Pierre, was almost entire
4 ly burned and almost all the inhabi
tants were killed. One OF the sur
vivors of Urine, who will die. says the
sea, boiling hot. invaded the land
Six women. whose bodies are one solit
/ burn, are writhing in another ware
of the hospital. Ten women severel,
burned from Urine were brought il
and four of them have died. 1t i:
doubtful if any of the six still alive
can recover. An evidence of the swift
ness of the onslaught of fire is fount
in the fact that none of the victims
was blinded, although the eyelids o
most of them are nearly burne,
through All those saved, except tn
engineers of the Roraima are poo
sailors and Martinique negroes. N
oue knows how the passengers o
the steamers perished.
American Consul Certainly Dead.
Three hours exploration of tn
ruins of st. Pierre resulted in the fine
ing Of no trace of the American cor
sulate. Consul Thomas T. Prenti:
his wife and two daughters are III
, doubtedly dead. That quarter of tn
city is still vast mass OF blazin
ruins.
The coast villages near ST. Pierr
} were destroyed with that town. Th
entire island up to few miles c
! Fort de France is covered with mu
and ashes. The cattle are all eithe
5 dead or dying. The streams are a
: drying up. Thousands of persons al
5 flocking to Fort de france. Unles
, relief is promptly sent famine is in
3 minent.
l The steamer Solent brought awfl
, news from the British island of
8 Vincent. May and a volcano ther
3 the Soufriere, broke into violent cru
l tion. Mud ashes and stones wei
Y hurled into Kingston, the capital Of tt
] island, and over the country. Fro
the meager reports obtained here
is said 500 deaths occurred in st. vi
S cent up to Friday.