Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-14
SPEND TINE N PRAYER
Survivors on the Island of Mar
Unique Suspend Business
for Devotions.
Famine Likely to Add Its Hor-
rors to the Already Ter.
rible Situation.
Looting OF the Dead at St. Pierre
Observation-Disclosures on St.
Vincent.

May 14.-Business here is suspended
The people of the city have assembled
in the churches, and the cathedral
where special services are being hel
ed since daylight.
The United States government tug
Potomac left here last night for the ISL
and of ST. Vincent, where conditions
are reported to be worse. La sioufriere,
on ST. Vincent, was in full eruption
May 10. A stream of stone and mud
half a mile wide was then issuing from
the volcano Stones two inches in di-
ameter fell twelve miles away. AT
Kingston, the capital of the island, the
ashes are two inches deep. Seven hun
dred were reported Sunday, May IL. 1t
is estimated that the total number of
deaths on st. Vincent reached 1000.
Most of the victims are said 10 be Ca
rib Indians.
Seven estates on the islands have
been burned to ashes and it has been
reported two earthquakes occurred
there.
1t is believed the submarine cables in
St Vincent have been broken by the
disturbances. The present volcanic
eruption on St Vincent is the first since
1872.
Governor Hunt. of Porto Tlico, has
asked Louis III. Ayme. the United States
consul at GuadeIoupe, who is now here
what assistance he could render. Gov
ernor Hunts offer has been communi
Gated to the government, Which will
gladly accept it.
The United States government tug
Potomac. which came to Martinique
from San Juan, Porto Rico, cruised
alcns, the coast of this island yesterday
afternoon. She encountered an inky
black column of smoke, which made it
necessary for her to go five miles out
of her course
Words fail to describe the present
situation at st. Pierre. "A small de-
tachlnent of French troops is making
efforts to inter the dead. altho the gov
eminent seems to be strikingly uncon-
cern,ad as to what is done in this d.
rection.
Looting of the dead is reported.
While coming to Fort de France the
Potomac picked up a boat % ntaining
five colored and one white man whose
pockets We're filled with coin and jew
elry, the latter evidently stripped from
the fingers of the dead. Lieut.. B. b.
Mccormick, the commander of the Po-
tonlac, arrested these men and turned
them over to the commander of the
French cruiser Suchet for punishment.
The Potomac also brought a ton of
supplies to Martinique, consisting, in
part. of Goldfish and flour.
A famine here is imminent. The
northern section of the island is de-
populated and provisions are needed inn
mediately for $4,000 people. a shi F, load
of lime Is also needed at st. Pierre
for sanitary purposes. The stencil there
from the dead bodies is overpowering.
Mount Pelee was still erupting smoke
and fire at a late hour last night.
The French cruiser Suchet is here,
and the city of Fort de France is quiet.
1t was reported here yesterday from
the British island of Dominica that 800
survivors of the st. Pierre disaster had
reached there in canoes.
Every praise is given to United
States Coosul Ayine. He has worked
to succor the survivors.
He has bandaged the limbs of the
many wounded and has worked
without sleep and without food. lie is
now thoroughly exhausted.
Forty persons rescued from the city
are now IN n spitals here.
M, ia
daughter of the late Clement Stokes, of
New York, who, with their mother,
brother aged 4, and sister aged 8
years, was on the Inflated British
steamer Rorrainla, is in the hos ital
here. The child is not expected to live.
Her nurse, Clara King, tells the follow
ing story of her experience:
She says she was in her stateroom
when the steward of the Roraima called
out to her:
Look at Mount Pelee.''
She went on deck and saw a vast
mass of black cloud coming. down from
the volcano. The steward ordered her
to return to the saloon. saying 'it is
Miss King then rushed to the sa-
ing OF suffocation, which was followed
by intense heat.
The after part Of the Roraima broke
out in flames. Men Benson, the car
penter of the Roraima., who is now in
the hospital here severely burned, as
sisted Miss King and Margaret Stokes
to escape. With the help of Mr.. Scott,
the first mate of the Rorama, he con-
a raft with life preservers. |
Upon this Miss King and Margaret
were placed. While this YVES being done
little brothers died, and a 4
little later Mrs. Stokes succumbed.
Margaret and Miss King eventually got
away ON the raft and We're picked up bv
the steamer Korona. Mate Scott also
The only woman known to have sur
vived the disaster at St Pierre was
negress named Fillotte. She was found
n a cellar Saturday afternoon, where
she had been for three days. She was
alive but fearfIIIIy burned from head |