The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-17
ANOTHER ERUPTION.
Mont peIee Again Active--- Emits Great Flashes of
 Very Bright Light.
VISIBLE AT FORT DE FRANCE
PEOPLE IN SEVERAL DISTRICTS
 PANIC STRICKEN.

Thick, Glowing Red Clouds Inter
 sperscd With Flames of Light Nov
 Issuing from tho eVoIcano-showers O
 Cinders Accompany the Eruption
 Threatened.
 Fort De France, Island of Martinique
 May 16.-Great flashes of very brigh
 light were emitted from Mont Pele,
 between 10 and il o'clock last night
 They were visible from here. Thick
 glowing red clouds. interspersed witt
 flashes of light are issuing from the
 volcano this morning. Showers ol
 cinders, lasting for twenty minutes ac-
 companied the activity. The people ir
 the districts of Lorrain, Marigot, Sainte
 Marie and La Triniti are panic strick.
 en,
 Paris, May 16.--A private telegram
 ACCGlNCQ IlCIC, fIet La oudlI NCIlS-
 zeula. says Fort de France. (Martin-
 ique), is seriously threatened by the
 volcanic disturbance.
 Washington, May 16-Late this af- ternoon the navy department received an unsigned cablegram dated at St.
 Lucia to-day and apparently from Lieutenant Mccormick of the Potomac. It read as follows:
 Island St. Vincent devastated north
 of line Georgetown east, Chatea Belair west. Sufferers country people. Dead 1,700; destitute 5,00O Immediate relief supplied by local government. Desti- tuition will continue several months
 London, May 17.-A despatch to the Daily Mail from Kingstown, Island of St. Vincent, contains an excellent de- scpton of the eruption of La Soufriere by Rev. MT. Darrell:
 We rowed to within eight miles of the crater from which majestic body of vapor ascended. The scene was sub lime beyond imagination. Steam, smoke and lava formed an awful pill lar which appeared to us to be at least eight miles high. We rowed on but a dark cloud of dense volcanic matter descended in our pathway, impeding our progress and warning us to stop The mighty bank of sulphurous vapor assumed the shape of a gigantic pre- monetary; it then became mass of revolving cloud whirls, turning with incredible velocity. assuming beautiful flower shaps, some dark, some efful- gent while others where pearly white and all were brilliantly illuminated by electric flashes.
 Darkness then fell upon the waters and a black rain of dust descended up- on us. The laundering noises from the mountain and the earthquake shocks all produced scene of incredible maj esty and horror. The plutonic energy of the mountain increased momentar- fly until our boat returned to Kings town, the crew cowed and impressed with the weirdness of the scene and covered thickly with falling gray dust"
 Fort de France, Island of Martinique Nav 16-The French cruiser Suchet l will sail from here tomorrow with the principal local authorities, who will be landed at St. Pierre, and proceed to the l northern part of the island in the direc l ton of Basse Pointe. and thoroughly | investigate the situation. It is feared l that pillage is rampant there.
 Fifty robbers arrested at St. Pierre l have been sentenced to five years im- prisonment
 Kingstown, St Vincent, Thursday, | May 15--Advices received here from Fort de France say that footing and are on the increase at St. Pierre and elsewhere and that the authorities cannot cope with the conditions, espe- cially as local political quarrels at St Pierre are interfering with practical | harmonious action. There are 6 900 ref ugees at Fort de France and rioting is feared there. Business there has been stopped, the bank will not resume oper- ations for the present, and money is scarce.
 St. Thomas, D. w. T., May 16.---A dis patch was received here from the isl- and of St. Lucia to-day saying that the United States tug Potomac had return ed there from the island of St Vincent bringing a report that La Soufriere was quiet. The dust fall on St. Vincent is at present very slight, but terrible anxiety prevails and it is feared that he present lull in the eruptions is only temporary. The Potomac reports also that 2,000 persons have perished on St. Vincent up to the present time and T hat 5000 of the islands inhabitants are { destitute The entire Carib country is ; covered with volcanic earth and only $ he tree tops there are visible. A dispatch received here to-day from Martinique says that Mont Pelee is still { ,ery active and that a new volcano l las broken out on the north side of this I mountain. Kingstown, Jam. May 16.The cable epair ship Pouyer-Queertier, says the e lispateh to the Daily Mail, has found /. he bed of the ocean to be much dis urbed. At one place this ship found 100 fathoms of water where onely 300 T athoms were down on the charts. Re haIting maX be necessary.