Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-19
WORLD RESPONDING
Relief tOStriCken Martinique
Being Hurried
St. Vincent Residents Also
in Dire Straits
Vessels Busy CARVING ear-
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full Natives Away
full Natives Away

Fort de France, May lathe Unit
ed States government tug Potomac,
which came to Martinique from San
T,,on Porto Rico. cruised along the
coast of this island Monday afternoon
She encountered an inky black column
of smoke which made it necessary TO
go FIVE miles out OF her course. WORDS
fail to describe the present situation
at ST. Pierre. A small detachment OF
French troops is making efforts to IN
fer the dead, although the government
seems strikingly unconcerned as u
what is done in this direction. Wh1le
coming to Fort de France the Potomac
picked up boat containing five COZ
ored and one white man whose pockets
were filled with coin and jewelry, the
latter evidently stripped from the mn
gers OF the dead. Lieutenant McCor-
mick commander of the Potomac, ar
rested these men and turned them over
to the commander of the French cruls-
er Suchet for punishment. The Poto-
mac also brought tons OF supplies to
Martinique.
Strange to relate IN view OF the
number OF people swept to death very
few corpses are found. This is due 10
the fact that the most populous quar-
tiers OF the town are buried under d
thick layer OF cinders and lava which
apparently has entirely consumed the
bodies Of the victims.
When the cable repair ship Pouyer-
Quertier started on her mission OIL
mercy she had to pass through clouds
of burning cinders at the risk OF eaten
ing fire. in order to reach the terror
stricken people ashore. She succeed
ed in bringing to this port 456 people,
mainly former residents OF LIE Pre-
cheur. Since then the steamer has
succeeded in bringing many others.
Sunday she rescued 923, and plloted
the French cruiser Snchet and the Dan
ish cruiser Valkyrien. which took on
board 1900 persons. The path OF the
volcanic torrent is marked out IN
strange manner
Now to ST. Vincent.
Fort de France, May 14.-The Unit
ed States tug Potomac left last night
for ST. Vincent; where conditions are
reported worse. La SOnfrierre, on ST
Vincent, was in full eruption May 10,
2 stream OF stone and mud half mile
wide then issuing from the volcano
and stones two inches in diameter fell
twelve miles away. AT Kingston the
capital of the island, the ashes were
two inches deep. Several hundred
dead were reported May IL. 1t is estl>
mated that the total number OF deaths
at ST. Vincent reaches 1000. 1t is
automatically reported that two earth
Quakes occurred there and it is be-
lieved that the submarine cables at ST.
Vincent were broken by the disturb
ances. The present volcanic eruption
at st. Vincent is the first since 1872.
British Give Aid.
Paris, May 14-Sir Edmund ]. Mon
son, the British ambassador here Off
cially notified NJ. Delcasse, French
minister of foreign affairs, that the
British government had placed all
available resources ships and other
wise, in the vicinity of Martinique, at
the disposal of the French authorities
Feared Their Fate.
MINNEAPOLIS, May 14.-Mrs. James
Smith of this city, a slster-in-laW OF
United States consul Louis Ayme at
Guadeloupe. was the guest OF the fam
lly of Consul Prentiss at st. Pierre a
year ago. She says Mrs. Prentis told
her at that time that she and her nus
band did not expect to leave the island
alive Prentiss and Ayme made crit1-
cal examination of the volcano and OF
the islands nd agreed that a terrible
disaster was inevitable at some time.
French Are Grateful.
Paris, May 1.-THE Temps yester-
Day afternoon, in an editorial referring
to the action of congress in appropriate
ing 100000 for the relief of Martl-
nique, says:
This manifestation of Americ III
sympathy, on the eve of the Rocham-
beau fetes, tends to draw tighter the
already close ties uniting the two re-
publics and constitutes a guarantee or
peace and fraternity between the two
nations. France will never forget the
spontaneous initiative Of Roosevelt or
the significant generosity of congress.
British to Aid.
London, May 14-The munihcenI
appropriation of a United States con"
gress for the relief of the Martinique
sufferers, Roosevelt's message recon-