The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-14
Balls OF FIRE.
SOufriere Volcano on st. Vim
cent Still Active.
CannOnading Can Be Heard 100
Miles.
A MASS OF FLAME.
Whole Northern Part Of the
Island is AbIaZe.
Impossible to Reach Burning
District by Land or Sea.

Casries. Island Of st. Lucia. Tuesday,
May ls.-The soufriere volcano on the
Island of St. Vincent is stin in destruc-
tive eruption. A terrific cannonade can
be heard a hundred miles away. The
reports are followed by columns of
smoke. rising miles in the air Immense
balls Of colored fire also issue from the
crater Lightning is playing hercely
in the upper sky and the whole northern
part of the island is one mass OF travel
ing flame. 1t is impossible to reach
the burning district by land or sea,
and there are no means of estimating
the destruction wrought to life and
property.
Kingstown the capital Of St. Vincent,
IS still safe. though showers Of ashes
aid pebbles are continually falling.
The volcano itself is invisible.
DEAD ESTIMATED AT 1000.
Fort de France. Island Of Martinique
May Alt is estimated that the total
number of deaths on the island of St.
Vincent from the volcanic eruption
reached 1000 Most of the victims are
said to be Carib Indians.
EARTHQUAKE IN ST THOMAS.
New York, May 14.-Much excitement
D. w. l.. dispatch to the Herald, by a
slight shock of earthquake which was
felt about half past four o'clock Tues
day afternoon. The public was greatly
excited and many persons rushed from
their houses. but the tremors of the
earth stopped before any actual damage
was done.
FOOD FOR A WEEK
New York, May 14--With food enough
hoard feed "a ti0q1
Of Martinique for a week. the cruiser
Dixie is expected to sail this afternoon
from this port. She viii arrive at her
destination Monday Never, even dur
ing war time. did the army subsistence
department make such a record in col
lecting a shipload of food supplies
1t was done in "a hours time, Colonel
Bralnard bringing from Philadelphia
three car loads of supplies needed to
make up the shipment and purchasing
the rest here.
The Dixfe's cargo will comprise 800 600
rations. 1t contains.
200. 600 pounds of bread.
$4,000 pounds of -four.
900, 600 pounds of rice.
100000 pounds of Goldfish.
200 cases of chicken and beef soups.
100 cases Of evapOrated cream.
100 cases condensed milk.
5000 pairs of trousers.
5000 pairs Of shoes.
10000 pairs of khaki trousers.
1000 pairs of barrack shoes.
1000 blouses.
1000 tents.
1000 pairs of 1balbriggan drawers
200 balbriggan shirts.
500 summer coats.
In addition there are large quantities
OF cOHee, tea, sugar. vinegar, pepper
and in the way of clothing a large
amount Of calico undergarments, etc.
There Is $1,000 worth of medicine in
the cargo and three army surgeons.
Doctors Church, Riley and Clayton, win
accompany the party. They take along
plentiful supply Of surgical instru-
ments.
DEAD ESTIMATED AT 500.
London May 1.-THE governor of the
Windward islands. Sir Robert Llewellyn.
1elegraphs to the colonial office from
the Island of st. Vincent under date of
Tuesday. May 13. as follows:
arrived here yesterday and found
the state Of affairs much worse than
had been stated The administrators
reports show that the county on the east
coast between Robin Rock and George
town was apparently struck and deVas-
tated tn q manner similar to that which
destroyed st. Pierre, and 1 fear that
all living things in that radius were killed.
Erlbabty 1900 persons lost their ives. The
exact number viii never be known.
Managers and owners of the estates
with their families and several Of the
better class of people. have been killed.
a thousand bodies have been found and
buried one hundred and sixty persons
are In the hospital at Georgetown. Prob
ably only six Of this number will re-
cover
THE details of the disaster are too
narrowing for description
II got, at st. Lucia, a coasting steam
er which is running up and down the
leeWard coast with water and provisions
twenty-five hundred persons have re-
ceived relief
IT have asked for medical officers
from Trinidad and Grenada All the
neighboring British colonies are assist
ZRmRTO71EIW off ffsr.H fe- I,a7,.e
made TO grapple with the awful calam-
An the beet sugar estates in the
Carlo country are devastated and the
cattle are dead.
The eruption confines but is aDpar-
entity mOderating.
Anxiety is still felt. All the officers
ana residents are cooperating with me
The ladies' are making clothing
Sir Frederic NJ Hodgson the governor
OF Barbadoes, forwarded to the colonial
office today the report Of the colonial
secretary who has just returned from
Isl % II. Pierre Martinique. It con
HIHls the worst accounts Of the disaster
Ine secretary compares the ignited mat
Ter. which destroyed everything within
an area Of ten miles kong by six wide
20 burning sealing wax. He adds sig
nllcanty, that the services of doctors
are not required as there are no wound
ed persons.
Governor Hodgson estimates that two
Lnllnon tons of volcanic dust fell on the
Island Of Barbados.
FOOD WANTED FOR $4,000.
Washington. May 1.-THE navy de-
partment this morning received num-
Der OF messages bearing on the Mar
unique disaster. Lieut. B. B. McCor-
mick, commanding the Potomac, sent
the following from Fort de Fra rloe
dated Yesterday:
Inhabitants st. Pierre. sixteen yes
aels, totally DESTROYED. Sllrro1ndine
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