The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-05
LA SOUFRIERE'S ACTIVITY
ANOTHER VIOLENT ERUPTION
 "WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

Tao Zone of Destruction from Recent
 Outbreak of Mont PeIee Reported to
 French Colonial Oflce-Neasures
 Ordered for the Immediate Evacuation
 of Fort de France iu Case of Necessity.
 Castries, Island of St. Lucia, B. w. l., Sept. 4-The coast telephone service re- ports that a violent eruption of the Soufriere volcano, on the island of St. Vincent, was observed at midnight.
 Paris, Sept. 1.-The ministry for the colonies received this morning cable dispatch from the governor of Guade- loupe, M Merlin, reporting the zone of destruction in Martinique, resulting from the recent eruption of Mont Pelee. After recounting facts already known, it says that Morne Capote was much damaged and that flames surrounded | Morne Parnasse, but stopped at the St. James house. Basse Point heights were burned.
 l The minister of the colonies, M. Dou- merge, in placing $100,000 at the dispo- sition of the governor of Martinique, M Lemaire, to relieve the distress on that island, has urged the governor not to congregate refugees at Fort de France, but to distribute them in the south. where their necessities can be most cas- fly supplied.
 Recognizing the danger of a tidal wave at Fort de France, the colonial minister has instructed Governor Le- maire to adopt all the measures neces- sary to enable the inhabitants to imme- diateIy evacuate the place in case of necessity and seek refuge on the heights above the town, where food depots should be established. The minister has also recommended the establish ment of observatory posts, whence the
 least signs of fresh outbreaks of Mont
 Pelee can be immediately reported tc
 the authorities.
 London, Sept. 4.-The correspondent oi
 the Daily Mail at Castries, St. Lucia has cabled the following account of the
 phenomena, witnessed at the time oi
 the recent outbreak of Mont Pelee, Mar.
 unique:
 Between and o'clock in the even ing of August 30 a spectacle of terrific
 grandeur was witnessed from here. 4 pitch black cloud hung over the island of Martinique, through which shot a
 intervals pillars of flame high in the six!
 which broke in fantastic forms of col
 ored fire and scattered as showers O ' fiery sparks. At about nightfall cloud were dartng about like millions of mon ster fireflies, and above all these larg aureoles appeared in the sky" ! The correspondent then proceeds t : confirm the details of the eruption, a ! already known, and says: .z .s-s... ' , "There were tremendous earth rum blines and explosions. The ground rock ed and nothing could stand on tables shelves, Boats for St. Pierre were un
 able to reach the town, owing to the ia
 of hot ashes, and tidal wave destroye the whole of the sea front of Lecarbet.
 Castries, Island of St. Lucia, B. W. Sept. 4--S D. m.-The Royal Mall steam d CT Yare arrived here this evening trof n the Island of Martinique. She bring S the report that a.'violent volcanic erup = ton occurred there last night, and tha = about 1000 people are said to have per = ished. Large numbers of people ar T leaving the island.
 The British steamer Savan. Captai
 Hunter, arrived here to-day from tn
 Island of Trinidad. She was covere L. with dust and reports that she ran int
 dense cloud of dust while twent
 miles south of St. Vincent.
 Roseau, Island of Dominica, D. W. It Sept. A copy of L'Opinion of Fort Id France. Martinique, dated September L. says that over fifteen hundred persor Lo were killed during the volcanic eruptic Id of Mont Pelee of last Saturday, ar m that a still greater number of persor TX have been brought to Fort de Fran' l. by the French cruisers Tage and Such re and by coastlng craft. The hospitals ne Fort de France are filled with the sit te and wounded.
 o- Fall of Volcanic Dust Far nt Sea.