The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-13

I itself escaped being ingulfed in the ter rible Assures that opened and yaWned on every hand.
 PREDICTED BY TECUMSEH. This is the earthquake that the great Indian warrior, Tecumseh, is said to have predicted Early In the preceding November he stopped for several days at the capital of the Creek nation Qo- cated where Montgomery, Ala, now stands), on his return from a tour of the Southern tribes whom he had in duced to join his conspiracy. He was returning to Detroit, from which point 1 he subsequently led his dusky warriors l to do battle with the hated pale-faces. 1 The Creeks were wealthy nation and l content to live in peace with the whites and when Tecumseh began preaching his doctrine of annihilation
 of the whites and the coming of the In- dans' millennium, he received a very
 cool reception indeed, the Creeks refus- ing to believe that he was the Indian | Messiah.
 Baf1led in his designs, and burning with indignation, he turned to Yoholo Tustenoogee, mico of the Greeks, and in
 the hearing of all stated that he would reach Detroit on certain day, and that when he did so, he would stamp his foot
 on the ground and shake down every house in the Creek capital to demon- strate the sacred character of his mis- sion and to punish the Creeks for their stubbornness. With that, he departed, leaving the Creeks to wonder and to
 count the days until he reached Detroit.
 Sure enough on the morning Of the day that he had named for his arrival in Detroit, a rumbling noise was heard, accompanied by a strong odor of sul- phur, and the terrified Creeks ran ter TOT stricken from their houses just as the latter tumbled to the ground by the force of the earthquake, that here, as
 well as all over the South and the Unit ed States in general, was felt with greater or less force.
 Light earthquake shocks were felt
 throughout the Mississippi valley, the
 West Indies and the Antilles from De-
 cember 1S11, until April, 1912, and on
 the 27th of the last named month the
 terrible earthquake of Caracas, Vene-
 zuela, occurred. The coneussion was so
 great that birds flying in the air were
 thrown to the ground and kill&d, This
 was dipectly in the seismic zone, but
 was not by any means the end of the
 disturbance.
 On the same day that the Caracas
 earthquake took place the volcano of
 Souffriere, on the island of St. Vincent,
 with it's crater three miles in circum-
 ference, and 800 feet deep, began emit
 ting smoke and blue flame, and on the
 day following there was a terrific erup-
 tion of dirt, stones, ashes, sulphur, steam, mud and lava from this volcano.
 The lava flowed down the mountain
 side and into the sea, day was turned into night, birds fell to the ground un-
 able to support the load of dirt and ashes on their backs, while terrific con- cusslons followed.
 BARBADOES GOT RICH SOIL.
 Then a curious thing happened. Bar bados, situated 100 miles distant from St. Vincent had always been one of the few islands of the Antilles with a rather poor soil The island was of coral rock, around central mass, or core of volcanic matter, and the soil over this coral rock was exceedingly thin and poor. On the day of the erup- tion of Souffriere on St. Vincent, a black cloud rolled over the island of Barbados, causing the blackest and most intense darkness, and for nearly twelve hours it rained sand, soil, dirt and fertilizing matter of the best qual- ity depositng a coat of this material three feet in thickness over every por- ton of Barbados.
 The negroes were, of course, terror stricken, and. like the Americans at New Madrid, thought that the judg- ment day had arrived; but their terror | was changed to joy when, after the | storm of dirt and ashes had passed, | they found that the soil of the island | had been increased to 0 new soil was richer than the alluvlum of the Nile | valley. From the poorest and most in- | of the Antilles, Barbados, | In less than year, came to be the gem | of the British possessions in that quar- ter. The value of the exports jumped f In one year from four to six and seven figures, and it has since remained the most valuable of the English Antilles This, with the present disaster, was the only eruption of Mount Souffriere, St. Vincent known in history.
 The Charleston earthquake of August 31, 1866, also travelled over this same It was felt at Havana, and at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, and at other points in Haiti, Porto Rico and the An -iIles and thus it happens that there is every reason and precedent for believ- ng and expecting something in the na- .ure of a seismic disturbance in the United States as sort of after climax 70 the Martinique disaster. Washing- on Post.
 OIID FASHIONED EILOWER RORD-