The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-13

the bank clock stopped at some minutes
 before o'clock. A horse and buggy
 and policeman were in dead group
 at the door.
 At the request of S A. McAlister, the
 United States consul at Barba dos, Cap
 tain Davis and the Solent were placed
 at his disposition by the Barbados gov
 ernment.
 The Solent arrived at about the same time as the Associated Press steamer and brought to St Pierre the colonial
 secretary, two civil doctors, two mill
 tary officers and Dr. w. F. Aughin-
 baugh, of Washington, as well as cor
 poral and four hospital orderlies, three
 trained nurses and a full field hospital
 outfit. The Barbados government also
 sent seven hundred barrels of proVls-
 ions, one ton of ice and full supply or
 medicine These were useful, but the
 dead only needed quick burial.
 The stories of the survivors added to l the awful details of the particularly 1 narrowing account of the loss of the
 British steamer Roraima. l c. c. Evans of Montreal, and John
 G. Morris, of New York who are now
 at the military hospital of Fort de l France, say the vessel arrived at six
 o'clock. As eight bells were struck a | frightful explosion was heard up the
 mountain A cloud of fire, topping and
 roaring, swept with lightning speed down the mountain side and over the l town and bay The Roraima was near | ly sunk and caught fire at once.
 "I never can forget the horrid, fiery, l choking whirlwind which enveloped me-" said MT. Evans. "Mr. Morris and I rushed below We are not very badly burned not so bad as most of them. When the fire came we were going to our posts (we are engineers) to weigh anchor and get out When we came up we found the ship all afire aft and we fought it forward until o'clock when the Suchet came to our rescue. We were then building a raft"
 Ben" Benson, the carpenter of thfe Roraima, said;
 T was on deck anidships, when I heard an explosion. The captain or dered me to up anchor. I got to the windlass, but when the fire came l went into the forecastle and got my
 duds' When I came out I talked with Captain Muggah. MT, Scott, the first officer, and others. They had been on the bridge. The captain was horribly burned He had inhaled flames and wanted to jump into the sea. I tried to make him take a life preserver. The captain, who was undressed, jumped overheard and hung on to a line for while. Then he disappeared.
 Gus" Liuder. the quarterm of the steamer, wto is horribly burned and can scarcely talk, confirmed this.
 Francisco Angelo, who speaks poor English. vividly described the onrush of the fire. He says the captain was very brave man-too brave to di bum ed up. Angelo further asserted that the storm of fire lasted not more than five minutes.
 Joseph Beckeis, a seaman, who is fif- ty years of age and is so frightfully burned that he cannot live, having n- haled flame said in weak tones that h. was the last man to see the captain. The captain was then trying to roach a floating mattress
 Other men of the Roraima who were rescued are Salvador Aielo and Joseph Susino.
 From the Italian ship Teresa Lovico 1 several men were saved but they are in a frightful state, except Jean Louis | Prudent of St. Pierre. Although on | deck and unprotected he was little | burned. Prudent says there was first l an awful noise of explosion and then. right away, a cyclone of smoke and | lire, but such was the awful, poisonous choking nature of the smoke that 1t burned worse than the fire. When it struck people they fell dead, The cy- clone of gas tore the masts out of ships blew others up and sunk some of them. Soon afterwards came a wave of fire bigger than the smoke cloud.
 That cloud" continued Prudent, 'was bigger. if seemed. than the mountain. The fire burned the city everywhere at ,nce Near me I saw only dead men, put on shore I saw men and women 'ushing back and forth amid the flames Or an hour.
 "They would not run long Then anne that choking smoke and they would drop like dead flies, The exp'o- ion. smoke and fire all came and went n three minutes. but the city burned or three hours. Then every house was inished, and nothing alive was left. some men from the sinking ships got 0 the shore, but they were burned up here
 'At no time were there any earth Iuakes: but big stones were rained town and fire fell like rain for long ime.'
 In separate part of the hospital were found several persons saved from, ,arbet village, four miles from St. 'ierre.
 The village of Trreue, south of St, 'ierre, was almost entirely burned and early all the inhabitants were killed. he of the survivors of Irrene, who will ie says the sea, boiling hot, invaded , he land. Six women, whose bodies are |, ne solid burn, are writhing in another ard of the hospital Ten women, se- , erely burned, from Urine were , rought in and four of them have died ] is doubtful if any of the six still {, live can recover. , An evidence of the swiftness of the < nslaught of fire Is found in the fact hat none of the victims was blinded | the eyelids of most of them { re nearly burned through. All those f aved except the engineers of the Ro- c alma, are poor sailors and Martinique f egroes. No one knows how the pas : angers of the steamers perished and