The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-05-21

Everything within an area of ten mil
5 long by Six wide, to burning sealir
wax. He adds Significantly, th
f the services of doctors are not r
e quired as there are no wounded pc
sons.
Governor Hodgson estimates tn;
, TWO million tons of volcanic dust fe
on the Island of Barbados.
In the destroyed city of st. Pierr
the work among the ruins is being col
tinued In an unsatisfactory manner
says Fort de France dispatch to th
New York Herald.
The dead are being burned, the py
res being fed with petroleum and tal
Great fires are kept gong, which q
night light up the entire island, an
which, being seen at st. Lucia, led t
the belief that Fort de France ha,
burned.
Although thousands have been burn
ed, many still remain to be cremated
Searchers, while walking through th,
ashes, often step upon what appear,
TO be charred pillar of stone, only Il
learn as it yields gruesonely under
foot, that it is the trunk of another un
fortunate.
Some of the walls OF the houses tha
still stand, crumble 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 iron
rollers of the Prinolle sugar mills were
molted as though they had been put
through furnance.
The island of st. Vincent is one of
the British West Indian group, lying
one hundred miles west of the Barba-
does, and between ST. Lucia and the
Grenadines. 1t is seventeen miles
long by about ten miles in width, and
its area is 1872 square miles. Through
the island, from north to south ,
stretches ridge of high, wooded, vol
canic hills of subordinate, irregular
masses, which extend to the sea on
either side. The volcano called the
SOufriere is in the northwestern part
and tremendous eruptions have &c.
CURED in it. Il rises to height OF
tbree thousand feet above the sea
level. Its crater is three miles In cir
and five hundred feet
deep. While the climate of ST. Vim
cent is exceedingly humid, the average
being nearly seven feet, 1T is
not unhealthy. The soil of the valleys
is rich loan, and sugar, rum, molas-
ses, arrowroot and cotton are produced
in abundance. st Vincent has a local
government subject t. that of the
Windward Islands. Kingston, the
is near the southwestern ex-
tremity of the island. IT. had a popu-
latiOn of al 900 ten years ago.
Prof. Henry S. Williams, professor
of geology at Yale University, in dis
cussing the Martinique horror, said:
The trouble at Martinique was un-
of volcanic origin. 1t
might have been associated with earth
quake energy, as the~two sometimes
occur together. 'rhe thunder and
lightning which accompanied the erup-
ton are not uncommon at such times.
They were produced by the tension in
the atmosphere.
"The volcanic explosions were due
to water getting into the cavities in
the earth and coming in contact with
the heated rocks. These explosions
are frequent in the vicinity of the sea
or rivers. The ashes spoken of were
really not ashes, but fragments of rock
thrown out"
GLOW far down in the earth are
these disturbances?" the professor was
asked.
SAT various depths. Usually they
are pretty deep in the earth and may
be several miles down. The matter
that flows out after an explosion is not
real fire, but molten matter. 1t is red
hot and flows down the mountain like
water and gives the impression of fire.
Gases are emitted, and taking fire pro-
duce the flame which is often seen.
The molten matter sets fire to any
thing in its course. The theory is that
the matter in the interior of the earth
Is under very great pressure, which
keeps it from becoming molten. But
as soon as it is thrown up, then it be-
comes molten matter.
Earthquakes are produced by o
sliding away of masses of rock and
then there is settling of the earth.
At the Charleston earthquake the
crack in the earth was several miles
long. The earth settled only few
inches"