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place was long stretch of gray, smoking,
flaming dust.
DID NOT HEED WARNING.
People of st. Pierre Had Ample Time
to Escape.

A special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun
from Boston yesterday says: When warning
of the calamity which has overwhelmed St.
Pierre was first understood by the fnha bit
ants. Mrs. Thomas T. Prentiss, wife of the
United States consul there, wrote to her sis
ter, Miss Alice NJ. Frye, who lives in Mel
rose, suburban city here, of the first signs
of eruption. Miss Frye received the letter
yesterday. 1t is as follows:
my Dear Sister: This morning the whole
population of the city is on the alert and
every eye Is directed toward Mount Pelee
an extinct volcano Everybody is afraid
that the volcano has taken into it's heart to
burst forth and destroy the whole island.
"Fifty-one years ago Mount Pelee burst
forth with terrific force and destroyed
everything within a radius of several miles
For several days the mountain has been
bursting forth in flame and immense guam
titles OF lava are flowing down it's Sides
"All the inhabitants are going up to see 1t.
There is not horse to be had on the island,
those belonging to the natives being kept
in readiness to leave at a moments notice.
Last Wednesday, which was April %, I
was in my room with little Christine, and
we heard three distinct shocks. They were
so great that we supposed at first there was
some one at the door, but Christine went
and found no one there. The first report
was loud and the second and third were so
great that dishes were thrown from the
shelves and the house was rocked.
I'VE can see Mount Pelee from the rear
windows of our house, and, although it is
nearly four miles away, we can hear the
roar of the fire and lava issuing from it.
THE city is covered with ashes, and
clouds of smoke have been over our heads
for the last five days. The smell of sui
phur is so strong that horses on the streets
stop and snort. Some of them are obliged
to give up, drop in their harness. and die
from suffocation. Many of the people are
obliged to wear wet hankerchiefs over their
faces to protect them from the strong fumes
of sulphur.
MY husband assures me that there is no
immediate danger, and when there is the
least particle of danger we will leave the
place. There is an American schooner the
r. ]. Morse. in the harbor, and she will re-
main here for at least two weeks. If the
volcano becomes very bad we shall embark
at once and go out to sea. The papers in
this city are asking if we are going to ex-
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ST. PIERRE DISASTER.
Eyewitness Says It Sug-
gested Doomsday.
HE WAS ON A STEAMER
WHOLE MOUNTAIN SEEMED TO
BLOW UP.
Showers Of Fire, Hot Stone and Mud
Fell on the Doomed Ship
ping.
HE WAS ON A STEAMER

special to the New York Journal from
Dominica, British West Indies, dated May
II, says:
1t was about daylight on the morning of
May when We sighted the island. We had
run through thunder storm and we
steamed ahead for St. Pierre. At o clock
we were at anchorage off the Place Berth
landing.
When the agent, with lighters and steve
dores. came alongside, they told us that
Mount Pelee had been acting ugly ever
since the previous Saturday, and that there
had been heavy fall of hot cinders over
st. Pierre itself However the volcano
seemed TO have quieted down, and we got
the stevedores to work smartly.
Twenty vessels were anchored in the har-
Dor. One of them was the Tayama, a bark
from the French port of Nantes. There
were four other large sailing vessels. The
British steamer ROddam put into the berth
next to ours and let drop her anchor.
Like the End of the World.
Then something happened. There was a
shaking in the air, so that we felt as if
some one had jostled US.
A man near us cried out
my God, look at that!
on board looked, too. 1 can't describe what
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FEARS FOR ST. VINCENT.
British Governor Of Windward Islands
Cables Alarming News.

A dispatch from London saws: Sir Robert
Llewellyn, the governor of the Windward
Islands. has cabled the colonial office from
St. Lucia as follows:
I'm continue ton of my last telegram my
intention was to go to ST. Vincent in a
small coasting steamer; but l was strongly
advised not to attempt the trip as the
steamer narrowly escaped being wrecked
yesterday, and as the weather was looking
very bad in that direction. The island is
invisible. owing to a dense black fog Gin
ders and sand. / am very aaXiously await
ing the arrival of a warship.
The colonial office announced today that
in addition to the British cruiser InGefatig-
able, ordered to st. Vincent from Trinidad
the British third-class cruiser Pallas has
been ordered to ST. Vincent from Jamaica
with supplies for the sufferers on the for
mer island.
The latest reports received here say that
the state Of affairs at st. Vincent creates
grave alarm, especially as dispatches from
the Island of Dominica, forwarded Sunday,
reported that the Soufriere volcano, in st.
Vincent, was still in active eruption. Four
small boats loaded with refugees from
Grand Riviere, Martinique, have arrived at
Dominica in pitiable condition. They re-
port that six other boats left that village
at the same time. 1t Is not known what
became of them
The very slight discrepancies in the va
rious accounts of the volcanic outbreak in
the West Indies which have reached Lon
don leave only a shadow Of hope that the
later details win greatly minimize the ex
tent of the catastrophe, and the fear is
beginning to seize the British papers that
even worse news may come.
For instance, the Standard, in an editor
ial this morning, says: 1T is only too clear
that the area affected is larger than known
at first. If Dominica and st. Lucia have
not suffered greatly, there is reason to fear
that their turn may come: nor is it by any
means certain that corresponding convul-
soon follow on the mainland of Central
and South America. In the presence of
such forces man is helpless, and we can
only prepare to relieve the survivors as
speedily as possible. The United States
has set US an honorable example"
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THE VOLCANIC CRESCENT.
Only Lesser Antilles Exposed to Sub
terranean Disturbance.

Ou1y Lesser AnC1lleS Exposed TO SuD-
terranean Disturbance.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The destructive efupfionS of the Grand
Soufriere, or great sulphur mountain of st.
Vincent, following closely upon the terrible
outburst of Mt. Pelee, on Martinique, may
easily arouse approximations as to the safety
of all the West Indian Islands. Fortunate
ly, however, the whole group Is not in the
same boat as those that form the volcanic
crescent Of which Martinique is the center.
The other groups belong to different geo.
logic periods and are not volcanic.
The Greater Antilles, for instance, are
free from volcanic potentialities. Arranged
along an axis that runs practically east
and west they represent geologic stability
that runs back to very early PERIODS. The
Lesser Antilles. however, REPRESENT much
less stable state of things, and the inner
line of this group Is practically nothing
more than succession of volcanic, cones.
The line of the Greater Antilles continued
through Porto Rico ends with the Danish
Islands, which are non-volcanic. A few
miles east of st. Thomas, however, but sep
arated from it by great ocean depths, there
begins the inner crescent Of the Lesser An
titles.
This ominous arc, convex toward the At
lantic ocean, starts with the tiny island of
Saba and ends with Grenada, 500 miles to
the south. The curve bends about an i'm
aginary chord, running due north and south,
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FRANCE SENDS RELIEF.
Cruiser D'Assas Sails With Money and
Supplies.

A dispatch from Paris yesterday says:
NJ. Bloch, inspector of finance, and NJ
Labarthe, the colonial minister's secretary
who have been dispatched by the govern
ment to Martinique, sailed from Brest to-
day on board the French cruiser D'Assas,
which carries money. provisions and other
stores for the relief of the Martinique suf-
ferers.
A French cable official who went to ST.
Pierre reports that the companys office has
been burned to ashes and that there is no
trace Of the staff. This official adds that
the cremation of the bodies Of the victims
has begun. and that the cable steamer
Pouyer Quertier is proceeding to repair the
Northern cable.
The waves of lava are still reported to
be flowing northward They have extended
even to LIE Carbet The candidates for cleo
ton to the French chamber Of deputies who
persisted at st. Pierre were NM. Percin and
LIE Clerc.
The colonial minister has organized a re-
lief distribution committee, consisting of
himself and M. Decrais former colonial
minister, the colonial members of the cham
Der Of deputies, the colonial senators and a
number of commercial men. The first meet
ing of this committee will occur Tuesday.
A dispatch received here today from Fort
de-France, Martinique, says
All the hills surrounding LIE Carbet and
LIE Precheur near st. Pierre) are covered
with refugees, to the number of about 5000,
who are being taken away gradually. In
the meanwhile provisions are being con-
veyed to them.
"Of the thirty persons who were orig
inally rescued by the French cruiser Su-
chet. the majority were fearfully burned,
and nine died while on their way to the
hospital
THE corpses which are heaped in the
ruins of st. Pierre are not only completely
naked, but are frightfully mutilated."
The Paris Temps today, referring to the
destruction at st. Pierre, says:
I'VE believe. from the information re-
ceived here from the Island Of Martinique"
(meaning, doubtless, the official dispatches),
that the disaster surpasses all that imagi-
nation can conceive. The whole northeast
ern portion of the island is laid waste.
Three large communities exclusive of St.
Pierre have been destroyed. The victims
comprise two candidates for, today's ballot
ties" : VS. ch
President Loubet Has: cod4ift ributed 10000
francs and the cabinet has donated $500
francs to the fund being raised here for the
sufferers by the ST. Pierre disaster.
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Guertier, came from the town of lie Pre-
chuer, where, surroundedk on all sides by
flowing lava, they were hearty roasted to
death. and expected momentarily to be en-
quilted.
The work of relief is progressing here on
the most extensive scale possible, but in
anticipation of disturbances the treasury
building and the warehouses are guarded
by troops.
The latest reports here showed that lava
continues to pour down the slopes of the
mountain, while fresh crexasses are contin-
ually opening.
Many Refugees Were Drowned.
ST. THOMAS, D. w. T., May 11.-Advices
received here from the Island of Dominica
today say that boats arriving there report
that many persons were drowned. while
crossing to Dominica from the Island of
Martinique, where some of the out parishes
have been inundated. The eruption of Mont
Pelee Martinique) continues. The lava is
progressing northward. The whole north
ern region is now a rocky waste, denuded
of vegetation.
Reports from the Island of St. Vincent say
that up to the afternoon of Friday last over
200 deaths had occurred there, owing to the
volcanic outbreak in that island Definite
news, however, Is lacking. Many estates
were destroyed, and steam and ashes were
belched forth from in the morning until
9:3O at night. The eruption is now invisible
at Kingstown. Huge dust clowds were
blown eastward.
Loss Estimated at 500.
Great distress prevails at ST. Vincent,
where there are many injured persons. 1t
is believed that about 500 persons have lost
their lives at ST. Vincent. The majority of
the corpses are still unburied
The British royal mail steamer Solent has
gone from Barbados to Martinique with
supplies and doctors. From the Island of
Trinidad the British royal mail steamer
Kennel has gone to Fort de France The
British second-class cruiser lndefatigable
is on her way from Trinidad to St Vincent
with stores for the relief of the sufferers
there. 1t is reported here that Fort de
France (Martinique) is threatened Great
tension prevails everywhere throughout the
West Indies.
FEARS FOR ST vrNcrNr
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smoking waste, eoncealing 10000 corpses,
whose rapid decomposition necessitated in
some cases Instantly completing their Gre
nation, which was only partially accom-
plished by the lava.
The inhabitants of Fort de France were
panic-stricken the morning of the disaster,
when the sky suddenly blackened until it
was as dark as at midnight. The sea shrank
back thirty yards. and hot rain began to
fall, while gravel, the size of walnuts, pour
ed down on the town. This lasted about
fifteen minutes.
The 450 survivors who were brought here
yesterday from the vicinity Of St. Pierre
by the French cable repair ship Pouyer
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came along. / knew him by his clothes,
though these were smoldering, but his face
was scorched beyond recognition.
Lower the boat!" he said
/ could not obey his orders, for the boat
that was left by the tidal wave was burned
full of holes by the flaming rain. l saw no
more of the captain after that. but l was
jumped overheard AID got on a raft which
had been hurriedly put together, and that
he died there.
All this time the sea was Dblling like the
heaviest kind of ground swell, Pelee was
roaring and the air full of strange shocks
When looked at st. Pierre the sight was
terrifying. The city was gone, and in its
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Lieut.. Governor Stone Dead.

Jesse Stone. lieutenant governor of Wis
consin. died at WATERFOWL. Wis, at SIT
o'clock last night. after a lingering illness,
from cancer of the stomach. Nr. Stone
spent some time in the south hoping to get
relief, but without avail. On his return he
underwent an operation IN a Chicago hos
pital, where the real cause of his trouble
was ascertained. After the operation he
was removed to his home in Waterfowl,
Death had been expected for several days.
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1 saw. Of course, but my first thought was
that the end of the world would look just
like that.
The whole mountain appeared to blow up.
1t was just as if the mountain had been
blown up by all the dynamite in the world.
First of all, great pillar of flame rushed
straight up in the air. then it opened out
wider than the mountain itself and came
roaring down out Of the sky upon Us. Some
of us rushed to the forecastle head to heave
the anchor. 1 saw the captain shouting
orders, and 1 saw McFear the engineer,
drOp below
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Congress for the aid of the Martinique suf-
ferers and the sending of an American
cruiser to the island says:
.Of all friendly manifestations. the most
brilliant and most touching are certainly
those of the United States. The great people
beyond the ocean have again proved that
feelings of humanity and generosity are
among the noble qualities upon which they
pride themselves. This fine example of
human solidarity touches us profoundly,
and we are happy to note it in this unfor-
getable circumstance"
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Fiery Cloud Upon Them.

AS we reached the ships head the fiery
cloud was upon US. Rough stones, scalding
mud and real splashes of flame dropped
and clattered all over the ship.
Ships were swallowed up by an enormous
wave.
There was another roar and with it all
the water in the harbor seemed to get up
and rush upon the shipping. Every craft
heeled over to the great tidal wave and
seemed to sink.
When the wave struck us it flooded us
fore and aft. sweeping away the mastS
funnel. all the small boats save one and
part of the deck.
There was a ventiIator at hand, and to
save myself 1 seized it, but was nearly
killed, being driven into it by the force Of
the wave. A couple of stevedores pulled me
out of the ventlator and dragged me into
the steerage. There l remained, half dead
for quite a time, during which the ship
rolled and the fire and rocks battered the
decks.
Corpses Piled Up.
Now and then a charred and shrieking
sailor rolled down the hatchway and died
as he came, so that a pile of corpses lay
over me. Some one pulled me from under
these. l clambered to the deck and began
turning a hand toward saving the injured
who were lying all about, though even then
small red-hot stones and mud were falling
Capt Muggah of our ship was burned al
most beyond recognition.
AS l was about this work Capt. Muggah
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and is at right angles to the trend Of the
axis of the Greater Antilles. From SABA
to Grenada, and including the western half
of Guadeloupe, all the islands. Dominica.
Martinique, St. Lucia and st. Vincent, are
volcanic and recently volcanic at that.
some of the steep volcanic cones which
make up their mountain masses having
been active within historic times.
French Pleased at Our Generosity.
The Gaulois of Paris, France, referring
to the vote of 100000 by the United States
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perience another earthquake similar to that
which struck here some fifty years ago."
Consul Prentiss and his family, which
consists of his wife, two sons and two
daughters, are given up as lost.
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BURCHELL'S

BURCHELLS
SPRING LEAF" TEA
is grown regularly ever year on the
same plantation p:.xed, cured and
packed so carefully that the unusual
fine delicate f1siTor is always the
same. Coo. IL VIII be soc. when
war tax ccs..fes off.
NV. BURCHELL,
: 1926 F ST.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-25
To the Public.

The attention of the public is called
to the fact that J. G. Jansrud has
bought half interest in the photo
graph gallery of G. A. Baklund, and
the firm name will hereafter be known
as Baklund & Jansrud. Mr.. JAMS
rud's ability as an artist is we'll known
and the firm is now composed of gen.
tlemen who are both we'll up in their
profession. Mr.. Jansrud has devoted
all his spare time to photography and
art during the past five years and last
fall was awarded diploma for excel.
lence of work in an exhibit at the
photographers convention held in St.
Paul. He spent two summers at the
Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. lot
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could accompany the old settlers on
the excursion to Duluth.

OO~AA S~~OAAAHS'Ay ~-~~ ~>~ SSSSA~A - III
the excursion to Duluth.
Lee Hoffman, completed the digging
of we'll last week for Ole Twensberg,
who resides near Spicer. It is 34-ft.
we'll and has four foot flow of
water. On Monday he commenced
work on a we'll for Henry Olson, near
Eagle Lake. Mr.. Hoffman is success
full we'll digger and seems to have
plenty of work.
Cards have been issued announcing
the approaching wedding of Miss Car
oline Foshager to Martin T. Olson, of
Willmar. The ceremony takes place
at the Norwegian Lutheran Synod
church on Saturday, June %, at 3
p. m. The reception following the
ceremony will be held at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. T. Olsen. Mrs. OF.
sen is sister of the prospective bride.
VIM. Strasburg of Raymond was
arraigned before Justice Roise in this
city last Wednesday on the charge OIL
assault in the third degree, preferred
by Harvey Watkins of the same place.
The two had engaged in street fight
at Raymond, caused by some remark
which would not look we'll in print
Watkins came out of the fracas with q
badly scratched face. The trial was
set for July 3, at 10 a. m.
A large case of frogs was among
the shipments which passed through
Willmar on Saturday. They were
consigned to T. J. Burr, Litch6eld
and were from Spicer. Mr.. Burr
who is former resident of Harrison
carries on quite q business in THU
line, and handles a large number O.
frogs every season, which are pre-
pared for Eastern markets. Frogs
legs make very desirable eating.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-06-25
R~<1f K1>-ls a The News Personal and Otherwise,
M AvASA4IAO11 SSS of the

The Misses Connolly visited friends
at Melrose last week.
Miss Sadie Macdonald visited At
water friends last week.
335 tickets were sold at this point
for the Duluth excursion.
W. J. Pinney and daughter Marie
went to the cities Monday.
Gabriel Stene and son of Lake An
drew were Willmar visitors this week.
The Stott family left this week for
Washington state. They locate at
Seattle.
Miss Cora Rigg has been enjoying
a visit from the Misses Koefod of
Glenwood.
John Strand is among the force of
clerks in the grocery department. of
the Big Store.
Miss Jennie johnson went to Kerk-
hoven last Saturday for a visit at her
home near that place.
Miss Jessie Spicer returned home
last Thursday night from visit with
Minneapolis relatives.
Rev. D. T. Booth is expected back
Willmar this week from San Jacinto,
Cal. for brief visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. r. Hanscom
came up from St. Paul last Saturday
for brief visit with relatives.
Miss Hannah Almen, of Balaton,
MIMI, has been the guest of her sister,
Miss fora Almen, the past week.
The county commissioners we're in
session last week to consider ditch
matters. They meet again July IA.
Ludwig Anderson, former W illmar-
tie, now of Minneapolis, renewed &C.
quaintances in this city the past week.
President Spicer ofthe First National
Bank made business trip to the cities
Saturday, returning the first of the
week.
Emil Hegstrom, director of the Svea
Band, is in attendance at the G.. A. r.
encampment being held in St. Cloud
this week.
A number of the railroad boys from
this point attended the St. Paul shop
mems picnic at Howard Lake last
Saturday.
The regular meeting of the W. c.. T.
U. will be held at the home of Mrs.
Ward on Thursday afternoon of this
week at o'clock.
Will Spelliscy, who played ball
with the Willmar team last season,
and of late with the Winnipeg team,
is now with Brainerd.
Mr.. and Mrs. O Eliason, of Gil
christ, Pope county, were visitors last
week at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. F. w. Ferguson.
W. D. Virgins will have a fine
residence on Litchfield avenue when
all the improvements to the present
building are completed.
George Carlin arrived home last
Thursday from St. Paul, where he has
been in attendance at the St. Paul
Academy. Mr.. Carlin is taking a
theological course and has another
year left before he can become can.
didate for the priesthood.