The age-herald., 1902-05-12
qt8r Details Only Add to the ! Horror of Disaster to
 St Pierre
OWN 4 SMOKING WASTE
 , HIDING 3O,OOO CORPSES
bmmission Which Had Examined Crater Reported No Danger-Re-
 lief Being Sent from Every k Part of the World.

Mort de France, Island of Martinique,
 y 1.-Advices received here today from
 vicinity of St. Pierre Gen miles from
 Ie) contain further details of the ter
 le volcanic upheaval which resulted in
 utter destruction of that town and
 death of nearly all its inhabitants.
 he crater of Mont Pelee has been
 aring it's smoke cap since the 3rd
 May, but, there was nothing until last
 bnday to indicate that there was the
 Ehtest danger. On that day stream 4 boiling lava burst through the top of Be crater and plunged into the valley of
 e river Blanche, overwhelming the perin sugar works and killing twenty
 ree work people and the son of the Proprietor.
 IA commission was appointed by the
 Nernor to investigate the outbreak and
 Freturned a reassuring report on Esdnesday evening. But about o'clock Thursday morning a shower of fire
 Shed down on St. Pierre and the coast
 bm LeCarbet, which had a population f 5000, to Le Precheur, which had a pop Rlation of 1000, burning up everything in k path Throughout Thursday the heat the vicinity of St. Pierre was so in- Slse and the stream of flowing lava was
 gunremitting that it was impossible to 9proach the town during the early part
 the day. As evening approached the French cruiser Suchet, after a heroic battle with the heat suffocation and sul- phur fumes, succeeded in making dash toward the shore, nearing the land close enough to enable her to take off thirty $nrvivors of the disaster all of whom lere horribly burned and multilated.
 A Smoking Waste.
 St. Pierre at that time was an abso- kitely smoking waste, concealing 30,0OC trpses whose rapid decomposition neces- kated, in some cases, instantly complet- Rg their cremation, which was only par
 lilly accomplished by the lava
 rho inhabitants of Fort de France were Snic-stricken the morning of the disas-
 when the sky suddenly blackened un-
 it was as dark as midnight, The sea Drank back thirty yards and hot rain sgan to fall. while gravel the size of
 Hlnuts poured down on the town. This
 sted about fifteen. minutes.
 .he 450 survivors who were brought
 Ee vest erday from the vicinity of St.
 erre by the French cable repair ship kouyer Guertier came from the town of De Precheur, where, surrounded on all Rides by flowing lava, they were nearly pasted to death and expected moment kfily to be engulfed.
 ~The work of relief Is progressing here pn the most extensive scale. but in an- ticpatlon of great rushes, the warehouses Ire guarded by troops The latest reports received here show that lava continues kp pour down the slopes of the mountain, Slowly engulfing the whole north side of the island while fresh crevasses are continually opening.
 u. S. GETS NO WORD
 FROM HER OFFICIALS.
 Washington, May 1.-Nothing came to the State Department today from the representatives of the United States in the West Indies touching the disaster at St. Pierre, the officials get ling their information on the subject from the newspaper representa- lives. This condition, however, Is not Expected to last long, as Consul Ayme at Euadeloupe reported today that he ex- bected tc leave for Martinique tonight. He will communicate promptly what he learns to the department
 The Navy Department also was with bui any information today from tha cruiser Cincinnati, whose commander was directed to proceed from Santo Domingo 10 Martinique to render such aid as was Possible. Nor has anything been heard from the Potomac, which was at San kian, and whose commander was given Authority to go to the stricken island. During the cay Secretary Moody was Informed that the Dixie, noS at New hp foY l,xT Eorl ms.
 EIt this government undertakes to rem Her assistance to the islanders she must barry provisions and other supplies to he people.
 kPresident Roosevelt has sent a dispatch
 President Loubet of France expressing Dc regret of this nation over the horrible Catastrophe at St. Pierre.
 k Cruiser Dixie May Go.
 New York, May 11.-Rear Admiral Bar her, commandant of the Brooklyn navy erd, said today that he had received or
 Is to get the converted cruiser Dixie lady for sea at the earliest possible
 pment, but that no orders for sailing kd been received and he had not been Horned officially that she was going to
 Pierre. It will not be possible to get
 Dixie ready before Tuesday, perhaps et until Wednesday. If it were int end to use the Dixie as boat for the f1:ef of the inhabitants of Martinique, kumiral Barker said, no better vessel in he navy could be selected, as she was formerly a regular liner and had a large cargo and passenger carryi..g capacity. She is in command of Captain Berry. WAS IN ACTIVE
 ERUPTION MAY 3,