The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1902-05-21

once the town was i'm Il blaze. The
fire seemed to run overall. The ships
were instantly canted over and began
simultaneously to burn aud sink i'm the
sea. which was then raging cauldron.
The whole destruction had taken place
within less than 20 minutes of the
eruption.
BURNING BODIES.
In the destroyed city OF st. Pierre,
the work ;mong the ruins is being
cOntinucC n an unsatisfactory man
ner, says { Fort de France dispatch to
The lIC'T.d. Thc dead are being
burned, Jhr pyr being fed with petro-
leum and Car. lat fires are kept GO
! ing, wh.ch at night light up the entire
island, and which. being seen at st.
Lucia, led to the belief that Fort de
France had burned.
Although thousands have been
burned, many still remain to be Gre
mated ScarchcrS, while walking
through the ashes, often step upon
what appears to be a charrcd pillar
of stone. only to learn, as it yields
grueSomcly under foot that it is the
trunk OF another unfortunate.
Some OF the walls of the houses that
still stand, crumble and fall ut touch.
Some idcs OF the terrible heat that
poured down from Mont Pclcc may he
had when it is known that the iron
rollers of the prinolle sugar mills were
moltcd as though they had been put
through Il furnace.
TIE ISLAND TEENBLES.
No persons have as yet been able to
approach within eight miles of the
new crater of the SOnfricrS volcano.
But Judging from what can he seen
from considerable distance the old
lake at the summit of the mountain
has disappeared. The numerous tiS-
SurcS in the mountains sides continue
To throw out vaper and the Subtcr-
ranean murmuringS and trcniblingS in
dicate continued unrest. During the
afternoon of Monday dense volume
steam and smoke rose from the vol
cauo and the whole island was covered
by peculiar mist. The inhalation of
noXiOuS vapOrS here is increasing the
spread of sickness. Starvation threat
ems the poorer classes of the afflicted
district.
Nearly every remaining negro hut in
Carib county contains dccayCd bodies,
and the horrible stencil is driving pcU-
pie away. Mutilated bodies are tied
with ropes and draggcG TO the trenches
where they are buried. Sometimes
bodies are crematcd. The local gov
ernmCnt is feeding and Sheltering
about 1000 refugees.
DESTROYED IN TEN MINUTES.
The correspondent of The London
Times at Paris. NJ. DeBlawitS. sup
pied his paper this morning with an
account of the st. Pierre disaster,
telcgraphcd to him 10y Il friend from
Fort de France, Martinique, under
Thursdays date, by way of the island
of Malta. 1t says: For three weeks
Mount Pelcc had been vomiting clouds
OF smoke, but the smoke seemed 50
normal that it was permissible for
even those were inclined to look on the
| dark side not to dread catastrophe.
AT fort de France, where the agita-
tiUn of Mont Pelcc, attracted, as it
went ON much attention and anxiety
which existed gradually eicd down,
May > violent ernptian of mud, hot
ashes having been mingled with water
IN the crater. overwhelmed Gucrin'S
works, killing twcnty-thrce persons.
and the river in the north of the
island. now swollen by muddy tor
rent, noiSlly ovcrtiowcd On May =,
while there were still delibcra tiOnS 90
ing ON at Fort de France and st.
Pierre, where the night had passed in
anguish and ignorance, as to whether
the cruDlipD pt mu1 \VnS tho DrprurSpr