The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-19
Heroic Captain, Who Plotted His Ship
From St. Pierre, Describes the
Volcanic Eruption.
yOyaue With d Manned Skipper at the
Wheel and Eighteen Dead Men
Lying on the Deck.

Anew YORK May The Norton line steamer Etona arrived here
% from the ST. Lucia where she called for
y bunker coal OF May TO-
AT ST. Lucia on May IT, says Captain Cante II board
@ British steamer Roddam, which had escaped from the terrible volcanic
@ ut Martinique days before The state of the ship was
enough to board have undergone awful e
.T R5n was covered with mass fine buhgray dust
M f ent appearance parts lay feet deep on
N decks had fallen in redho state all over the steamer
sitting everything 1t struck that was 0uTnaOe ana "hn zen Oh
NJ mem on board pieces of flesh This shown by finding
portions Of when the decks being cleared Of the
The rigging ropes arpaun sails awnings charred and
@ and most upper ancon and pars had been swept
- Ss were smashed and cabins we're filed dust
81 visited the captain Of Roddam in the hospital at St Lucia
m he gave me of his terrible experiences He said he had
INST arrived and Pierre Martinique the morning Of
Thursday, May
black CLOUD AND WAVE OF BURNING WATER.
the captain standing the accommodation ladder talking
m agent of the vessel had board when he what
appeared black cloud like WALL with patches OF ire IN
f. approaching the eaf from the land.
tidal Of burning water accompanied
h m and terrible noise He shouted Take sheterp
y caught and tossed her SIDE almost
Darkness fell like pail and volumes of hot matter sbowered down.
While the with suphurous fumes and dust The
confused of boiling mud Fire broke out in different parts Of
de ship.
Screams groans and agony injured people, mingled
Of boiling and rushing air together with the
falling caused most horrible confusion and fright The shock lasted
aievminutes
The captain of the Roddam knowing the necessity escape rushed
and sgnaed below the engines at
speed The increased by his sufering from burns
and agony mind relieved by vibration Of the engines and the
reply from below It happened fortunately that although the had
duty engines the by
TORTURED SAILORS JUMPED INTO THE BOILING SEA.
The terrible tidal wave which had swept Roddam and nearly
cz her. had parted the cable and the vessel adr When the
started found that the steering had become disabled In
could worked For nearly hour the ROddams
engineers backing and going ahead with the hope Of bringing her
head toward the sea and away from the land
Once she got dangerously the Roraima. Both vessels
flames Some of those aboard jumped into the boiling water;
fell diving % the deck.
this time the red hot matter was falling and water kissing
and mng Smoke and dust filed the air and poisonous fumes spread
a5ut After time the Roddams steering moved little and
enabled the captain head her out to and with much difficulty hi
managed steer her little distance from the land As the air cleared
t board the ated Roddam became all the CHASTITY
The ship steamed through thick hot dust The screams from thu
injured became audible rushed ranicaly about with he
clothing and large piece Of flesh burned from their others
mfeIr agony, lay writhing in the redhot dust.
I'm about hours the gradually became clear An investigation
The casualties board showed that addition the captain who
uy injured only engineers sailors and the boatswan
sole for duty.
TERRIBLE VOYAGE, WITH THE DEAD THE DECK
Fire still burning about ship and the rigging flames
60 avn. ' 10 Try TO reach One lsiaHl u o. Lucia oisy nI
@ This he succeeded doing by o'clock the evening OF May
lae steamer difficult handle owing the partially disabled steering
t@r which could not be made t work properly.
10 The occupied terrible the experience of tn
survivors still than that already through The brave
tam and his few fighting the FIRE exhausted and aded struggle
700 something to assist their dying shpmates.
those working below ved keep up the The captain
suffering the agony succeeded navigating his vessel safely
port Ca St. Lucia, with eighteen dead bodies lying the dec
'-l human limbs scattered about.
"A sailor stood constantly wiping the captains injured eyes
The performance of the Roddam captain wonderful
1 more when his pitul condition do
Understand how he kept up; the arrived St Lucia
assistance procured this brave asked the doctors
the others first and refused be treated until this done
7ARoIc CAPTAIN FEARFULLY INJURED.
wy interview with the captain brought the foregoing
MN IN good spirits receiving every comfort The sight of
lace would brighten anyone not prepared to see it. We sailed from
The morning of May H. and at o'clock IN the afternoon pass
OF Martinique The weather perfectly clear, and had
view OF that part Of the island which had suffered by the vocan
~ few days before the island quite alere
me whole northern part where the Of ST. Pierre Stood
5'l With OF ashes and lava.
ABOUT o'clock the Etona passing the island, remendo
~ smoke and dust place. and in few moments the sh
covered with fine about three miles disa
island at the time The ships engines under fun
LOT time much anxiety board. For hour
covered with dust and enveloped in thick cloud and the
with uphUrous fumes Ii have been another eruptio
aust must have been distance IN the arr because
- eg2iHst the wind, and a tremendously rapid rate