The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-14
LESSER ANTILLES HORRORS
ST. VINCENTpS DEAD NOW ESTI-
 MATED AT 5000.

stench from Dead Bodies Overpower-
 Recovery Of Valuable in the Ruin ed
 City-DisinfectantsN Needed.
 Fort de France Island of Martinique,
 May 13.-It is estimated that the total
 number of deaths on the island of St.
 Vincent from the volcanic eruption
 reached 2,O0O Most of the victims are
 said to be Carlo Indians.
 The northern section of the island Martinique is depopulated.
 Provisions are needed here for 100000 people immediately A, ship load of lime is also needed at St. Pierre for sanitary purposes. The stench there from the dead bodies is overpowering.
 Mont Pelee was still erupting smoke and fire at late hour last night.
 The French cruiser Suchet is here and the city of Fort de France is quiet.
 It was reported here yesterday from the British island of Dominica that 300 survivors of the St. Pierre disaster had reached there is canoes.
 Many strange and incomprehensble incidents are recounted of St. Pierre. The charred remains of woman with a silk handkerchief, unburned and in perfect condition, held to her lips have been found there. The crisped bodies of young girls have been found, but the shoes they wore were unhurt.
 Every praise is given United States Consul Ayme. He has worked inde- fatigably to succor the survivors He has bandaged the limbs of the wounded and has worked without sleep and without food He is now thoroughly exhausted. Forty persons rescued from the city are now in hospital here.
 In addition to the specie already se- cured jewels to the value of 100000 francs (s2O00O0) were recovered from the bank at St. Pierre yesterday.
 The Italian consul at Barbados has received the body of his daughter, who was visiting in St. Pierre a the time of the disaster.
 Margaret Stokes, the nineyear-old daughter of the late Clement Stokes, of New York, who, with her mother, four brothers and three sisters. was on the ill-fated British steamer Roraima, is in the hospital here. The child is not expected to live. Her nurse, Clara King, tells the following story of her experience: She said she was in her stateroom when the steward of the Roraima called out to her, Look at Mount Pelee." She went on deck and saw mass of black cloud coming l down from the volcano. The steward ordered her to return to the saloon, l saying, "It is coming" Miss King then rushed to the saloon.
 Fort D France, May 13.-(Via Paris. | As a result of the measure taken by | the authorities, access to St, Pierre is now easier. The ruins of the town have 1 ceased smoking Two thousand corpses | have been found in a carbonized condi- tion. It has been learned that the rain of fire ceased at distance of 200 yards from the village of Le Carbet,
 Talk with survivors of the disaster confirms previous statements as to the awful suddenness of the catastrophe It Is thought that an enormous quan- tity of gas was liberated, producing great atmospheric pressure, which overwhelmed everything before it. The gases absorbed by the bodies of the victims caused them to burst, and the fire coming afterwards carbonized them. This was followed by a rain of stones which enveloped the town but there was not, as has been said, any flow of incandescent lava
 A gardener at the village of Merne Rouge, seven kilometres distant from St Pierre, saw, at the moment of the disaster, seven luminous points on Mount Pelee, He says he had the im- pression of being violentyl drawn to- ward the volcano by powerful current of air, Then the mountain opened, &C., cording to the description of the gar- dener and flung tornadies of fire over St. Pierre.
 London, May 13.-A despatch to the Reuter- Telegram company from Fore I De France says that access to the town of St. Pierre is becoming easier, but that to-day the activity of the volcano seems to be increasing. The scenes within the dead city are strange and gruesome, says the dis patch. In the section of the city known , as the Mouilege, no sign of fire is visi- ble, but everything seems to have been ; rent and scattered as though by a tor nado The iron bedsteads in the hos 1 pitfalls are twisted, but bear no mark of ( heat The bed clothers and all textiles Z In the hospital simply vanished ! The central quarter of the town and f the fort are buried several yards un- der cinders. In the neighborhood of I the creek several houses were found in- i act but their inhabitants were all t lead and appear to have been killed by t lightning. Here the bodies were lying, e sitting and reclining in curiously life q ike attitudes. b All possible sanitary prevautions have r 1een taken at St. Pierre, concludes the II dispatch, but the stench trere is awful b
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