The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-05-21

The whole destruction had taken place
within less than 20 minutes OF th
eruption.
BURNING BODIES.
In the destroyed city OF St. Pierre
the work among the ruins is being
continued in an unsatisfactory man
ner, says Fort dc France dispatch t
The Herald. The dead are being
burned, the pyreS being fed with petro
! leum and tar. Great fires are kept go
! ing, which at night light up the entire
| island. and which. being seen at St
! Lucia. led to the belief that Fort dt
France had burned.
Although thousands have beer
burned. many still remain to be Gre
mated. ScarcherS, while walking
through the ashes. often step upor
what appears to be i charred pillar
of stone. only to learn. aS it yields
grucSOmely under foot. that it is the
trunk of another unfortunate.
Some OF the walls Of the houses that
still stand. crumhle and fall at touch.
Some idea OF the terrible heat that
poured down from Mont Pelee may be
had when it is known that the irCn
rollers Of the PrinOlle sugar mills were
moltcd as though they had been put
through furnace.
TIE ISLAND TEEMBLES.
No persons have as yet been able to
approach within eight miles Of the
new crater of the SonfrierS volcano.
But Judging from what can be seen
from d considerable distance the old
lake at the summit Of the mountain
has disappeared. The numerous fS-
SureS in the mountains sides continue
to throw out vaper and the subter-
ranean murmuriugS and trembiings in
dicate continued unrest. During the
afternoon oil Monday dense volume
steam and smoke rose from the. vol
cano and the whole island was covered
by peculiar mist. The inhalation of
noyiouS vaporS here is increasing the
spread Of sickness. Starvation threat
ems the poorer classes Of the afflicted
district.
Nearly every remaining negro hut in
Carib county contains decayed bodies,
and the horrible stencil isdriring peo-
pie away. MutilateG bodies are tied
with ropes and dragged to the trenches
where they are buried. Sometimes
bodies are cremated. The local gov
ernment is feeding and sheltering
about 5000 refugees.
DESTROYED IN TEN MINUTES.
The correspondent of The London
Times at Paris. VI. DeBlawits, sup
pied his paper this morning with an
account of the st. Pierre disaster,
te!egraphed to him by q friend from
Fort de France, Martinique, under
Thursdays date. by way Of the island
of Malta. 1t says: For three weeks
Mount Pelee had been vomiting clouds
Of smoke. but the smoke seemed SO
normal that it was permissible for
even those were inclined to look on the
dark side not to dread catastrophe.
At fort de France, where the agita-
tiOn Of Mont Pelee. attracted. as 1t
Went on much attention and anxiety
which existed gradually eied down.
May ) a violent eruptian OF mud. hot
ashes having been mingled with water
in the crater. overwhelmed Guerin'S
works. killing twenty-three persons,
and the river in the north OF the
island, now swollen by muddy tor
rent, noislly overtlowed. On May s,
while there were still deliberations 60
ing on at Fort de France and st.
Pierre, where the night had passed in
anguish and ignorance, as to whether
the eruption of mud was the precursor
of the end of the disaster, st. Pierre
was within ten minutes annihilated.
ONLY ONE LEFT.
Margaret Stokes. the nine-year-old
child. who is one of the survivors of
the Steamship Roraima, which was
destroyed at St. Pierre, is the only re-
manning member Of d family Of five
that lived in Brooklyn up to few
months ago. The child's father was
Clement Stokes, at one time well to
90 merchant of Barbados, 3. W. l.,
but Tor the last few years bookkeeper
for department store in Brooklyn.
Stokes died recently and the widow
decided to return to the home Of 4
wealthy sister in Barbados. The
widow packed her property and with
faithful colored nurse, Clara King,
who had been with the family in Bar
BADGES. she started on the journey that
was to be the last undertaken by the
family.
HELD IN MONTREAL.
When the Spray arrived in Montreal
Friday morning the party drove the to
the Windsor. At o'clock they again
left the hotel, just as the pursuing
force from Quebec which cameup from
Sorel on the Quebec boat reached the
hotel. Chief Carpenter took his prison
ers to Judge Laf0ntaine'S residence
and an impromptu court was convened
in the judges library. Detective Car
penter handed the Judge the warrants
with the return marked upon the
back as is usual. The prisoners were
asked if they were guilty or not guilty,
and not replying, the Judges clerk ac-
oepted their failure to plead as a plea
Of not guilty. Judge Lafontaine then
said: Prisoners, l remand you fol
+r;ol 1,pti1 Monday tho 10Th Of this