The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-13

take a life preserver. The captain. who
was undressed jumped overheard and he
hung onto a line for awhile. Then he
! disappeared"
Gus Linder. the quartermaster OF the
steamer, who is terribly burned AID can
scarcely talk, confirmed this.
STORM OF FIRE
| Francisco Angelo. who speaks poor
EnglishS> yividly described the onrush OF
! the IRE He says the captain was q very
brave man, too brave TO be burned 10
/ death. Angelo further asserted that the
/ storm OF fire lasted not more than five
MINUTES Joseph Breciels. q seaman 80
years old, IS 50 frightflily burned that he
cannot i've having Inhaled the flames
The ceptain was then -S-sing to reach
floating n1attress. Other mea OF the Ro-
raima Sfho were rescued arc Salvador
Eiell9 arc Jos. Sushine-
CYCLONE OF FLAMES
From the Italian ship Teresa Lovice
severed men were saved, but they are IL
dem Of ct. Pierre. Although on deck
and 7.nprotectea.he was buc little burned.
Prudent says t17eTe was az awful noise
Of explosion, and then, right away, .
cyclone 81 SMOKE and fire Bur such was
the poisonous. choking nature 1t the
smoke. shat il burned worse than the
fire When II struck the people hey feE
dead. The cyclone Of gas Ipre- the taasts
ort of stips, blew Others UP and sunk
some OF them. soon afterward came q
wave of ire bigger than the smoke
cloud.
'eThe Cloud continued Prudent, was
bigger, It seemed, than the mountain"
DEAD EVERYWHERE
ssu11,o b,-rrad off-- .r-rrr-r- Darr
at once. Near me 7 saw only dead men,
but on shore I saw men and women rush
ing back and forth amid the flames for
an hour They would not run long. Then
came that choking smoke and theyd
drop dead ike lies. The explosion, the
smoke ard the fire ali came and went in
three minutes but the city burned for
three hours. Then every house Was an
ished. and nothing alive was left. Some
men from the sinking ships got TO the
shore, but they were burned up there
AMERICA is ACTIVE
Washington. May 12.-The president.
afrer d conference this morning with Gsv-
eral members Of his cabinet has ordered
The war. navy and treasury departments
to co-operate in the adoption of steps
for the relief cf the Martinique suffer
ers. The state department already IS act
ing through its consuls in that section.
The navy transport Dixie viii be ready
to sail from the Brooklyn navy yard for
Martinique on Wednesday. The revenue
cutter servics will also render all pos
sible aid and having at least two cut
ters in the southern waters it Is believed
they Will Re ordered at once TO the west
ern Antilles. The war department
already has on hand aNNew York a large
amount OF food supplies and these prob
ably will be drawn upon. The president
has prepared q message which VIII be
submitted TO congress today, urging an
immediate appropriation to which these
steps are preliminary and antcipatOry.
Later. by the presidents direction.
orders were telegraphed to the Dixie 10
load the stores which are 70 he furnished
by the army as rapidly as possible ara
clear for Martinique al the earliest prac-
ticaoie ms.
MoUTTEO Has PERIsHED
Warrington sIay l2-An important
featute of Consul Ayme's cahiegran is
the reference Dy him to the governor as
an authority for the estimate Of the loss
Of life, Preceding dispatches, including
the official message received at the
French colonial office in Paris reported
that there was no doubt that Governor
AIouttet. as well as Col Dain, the mill
tary commander at st. Pierre had De1-
ished
POPE EXPRESSES SORROW
Ilome. May l. Tho pope today SIM
roned the French ambassador u the vat
lean. NJ. Nisard, and expressed to him his
keen sorrow on hearing Of the ST. Pierre
disaster The pontinf requested that he
be kept informed regarding the details
of the volcanic outb-eak-
WILLIAM TO LOURET
Witsbaden. Providence Of IIesse-Nas-
$50, Germany. May 12-EmuelOr William
has telegTaphed 10 Pr, sidelU Loubet. in
French, as follows:
Profoundly moved by the news OF the
tetrrlbie catastrophe which has Just over
takeE St. Pierra and wlich has cost tho
lives of as nearly as many persons as
perished az Pcupeu hasten 10 offer
f'r.uces' most sincere sympathy May
the Almighty comfort the hearts of those
Vito weep .or tneir iTrepairable losses.
NJ Ambassador viii remit to your ex-
celiency the sum of le.fee marks in my
behalf as q contribution for the relief
of the afflicted"
President I.0ubet replied: Am greatly
touched by the mark Of pathy which
in this terrible misfortune which has
Iallen on France. your majesty has de-
signed to convey 10 me I beg YOU 10
accept my warm thanks and also the
gratitude of the victims vnom YOU pro-
pose to succor.
ROOSEVELT TO LOUBET
Following IS the text or the cablegrams
between Pr, sldent Roosevelt and Loubet
on the Martinique disaster:
Washington. Nay 10. 1902.
His ENceileacy. II. Emile Lcu5et, Pres
ident Of the French Republic, Paris.
Il pray your exceliency 90 aceepy the
profound sympathy of the American Tco-
Pie IA tie al puli'rg calamity which has