The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-10
Is Also Erupting.

Washington, May 9-The following cablegram has just been received at th' state department on the destruction O St. Pierre, Martinique:
 "Pointe-a-Ptr May 9, 1902
 At o'clock a. m. on the Sth instan a storm of steam, mud and fire envel oped the city and community. No1 more than twenty persons escaped witt their lives. Eighteen vessels were burn ed and sunk with all on board, includ- ing four American vessels and steam CT from Quebec named Roraima. The United States consul and family are reported among the victims. war vessel has come to Guadaloupe for pro- visions and will leave at tomorrow
 (Siened) 'Ayme, Consul
 Pointe-a-Ptre is town in the French island of Guadaloupe north of Martinique The state department has been receiving dispatches from com mercial houses in New York asking that warshp be sent at once to Mar tinigue to afford relief The matter is under consideration.
 St Thomas Danish West Indies, May 9--It is now estimated that 40,000 per- sons perished as result of the volcan- ic eruption in the island of Martinique.
 The British schooner Ocean Traveller of St. Johns, N B., arrived at the isl and of Dominica, British West Indies. at 3 o'clock this afternoon. She report ed having been obliged to flee from the island of St. Vincent, British West In- dies, during the afternoon of Wednes- day, May [, in consequence of heavy fall of sand from a volcano which was erupting there. She tried to reach the island of St. Luchia, British West In dies, but adverse currents prevented her from so doing The schooner ar rived opposite St. Pierre. Martinique, Thursday morning May 8. While about a mile off the volcano of Mont Pelee eX- ploded and fire from 1t swept the whole town of St, Pierre, destroying the town and shipping there, including the cable repair ship Grappler, which was en- gagged in repairing the cable near the Guerin factory. The Ocean Traveller. while on her way to Dominica encoun- tered quantity of wreckage.
 San Juan de Porto Rico, May 9.-The
 raI vices from the island of Dominica that schooner which has arrived there from the island of Martinique reports that over forty thousand people are supposed to have perished during the volcanic disturbance in Martinique. The cable repair steamer Grappler was lost with all hands during the eruption of Mont Pelee, Martinique. The Grappler was one of the first ships to disappear. London May 9--A despatch to the Daily Mail from Point a Pitre, Island of GauCe oupe (French West Indies) dat ed yesterday says; 'The Mont Pelee crater ejected yes terday morning molten rocks and ashes during three minutes, and completely destroyed St. Pierre and the districts |
 
 habitants were burned.
 About eight passengers from the Boraima (of the Quebec steamship | line) were saved by the French cruiser Suchet'
 The inhabitants of the southern dis trict of the island, who were dependent i on St Pierre for provisions are men aced by famine.
 dispatch to the Daily Mail from Jamaica says:
 "The first intimation of a disaster Cat Martiniuue) was the breaking of the cables on Tuesday. The French cable to Martinique from Puerto Plata was broken Wednesday. Cable communica- ton with all the northern islands is stopped
 "The survivors of the British steamer Roddam describe the scene at St. Pierre as being 'glimpses of he'll beggaring de- scription. The Roddam's men were killed chiefly by molten lava.
 ''The Boraima was wrecked in ter rlble upheaval of land and sea. The whole crew perished.
 Two ships were lost with all on board in an attempt to approach Mar 
 A despatch to the Reuter- Telegram ]