Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-26
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
WEST INDIES DISASTER.


Residents are abandoning Trinidad
as they consider an eruption immi-
nent
Paris still appears entirely indif-
ferent to the disaster in the West
Indies.
A correspondent cables that Martin
ique relief business is being greatly
overdone.
Governor Moutett of Martinique was
killed in small launch with party
of scientists.
Looters were shot down by French
troops at St. Pierre while in the act
of robbing the dead.
The bodies of United States Con
sui Prentis and family were found in
the St. Pierre ruins.
Birds and wild animals were strick-
en- with fear and deserted Mount Pelee
days before the explosion.
The total death list for ST. Vincent
is now cOnservatiVely estimated at
1000 by persons on the scene.
Consul Ayme cabled that st. Pierre
needed no further relief, as supplies
Volcanic eruptions in the West In
dies are said to have caused the water
at the Austrian hot springs to run
red.
The steamer Roddam's experience
at st. Pierre was told by ship cap
tain at New York. The crew had
arms and legs burned off by ashes.
American insurance losses on Mar
Unique are small. st. Vincent risks
were carried by English concerns.
The French held most Martinique
risks.
Mount Pelee is said to cast a yellow
light over st. Pierre, in which the sea
appears pea green, while vast cloud,
like great black anvil, hovers above
the valley of death.
The governor of ST. Vincent in
cable to London reported 1900 bodies
buried and nine sugar estates de-
stroyed. All live stock on the Wind
ward islands was killed.
Bodies are being burned in great
funeral pyre at st. Pierre. After ex-
animation, physicians think most of
the people were killed by cloud of
gas that preceded the flow of lava.
The French government, through
Ambassador Cambon, formally ex-
pressed it's gratitude to the United
States for the prompt measures taken
to relieve the suffering in Martinique
The Carib race, which occupied the
northern end of st. Vincent island,
has been practically extinguished. An
old prophecy that the Caribs would be
sacrificed to the fire god is thus full
filled.
New craters have appeared in
Mount Pelee The eruption continues,
but all the surviving residents have
fed from the vicinity. There is a
constant rain of cinders, ashes and
lava.
Instruments in the government OBJ
servatory at Cheltenham, Md, show
that a considerable magnetic dis
turbance was registered three minutes
after the terrific explosion in st.
Pierre.
The training ship Dixie from New
York reached Fort de France with the
first relief cargo directly from the
United States. The cargo cost
$50 ,40395. 1t consists of food enough
for $4,000 persons for SO days.
Citizens of Fort de France, Mar
Unique, were thrown into panic by a
series of explosions on Mont Pelee.
A steamer was boarded and prepare
tons were made to flee. A volcanic
dust shower is falling upon city and
harbor.
Scientists say that indications point
to further disastrous volcanic erup-
lions on the island of ST. Vincent.
Three luminous spots have been OBJ
served on the side of Mount Pelee,
which are casting incandescent rays,
and fresh disaster is feared in Mar
Unique.
Though Mount Pelee, according to
the latest reports, continues in erup-
ton, it is claiming few additional vic
tins, and the scene of greatest vol
canic danger is now transferred to
Mount Soufriere, st. Vincent, which
is in the midst of an appalling erup-
ton.
Smoke and flames continually burst
upward to great heights from the
crater of Soufriere, and among the
mass is an incessant play of colored
fire. Dozens of lava streams are
flowing. AS they reach the sea there
is a tremendous Kissing Ashes from
2 inches to 10 feet deep cover the isl
and.
Mount Soufriere, ST. Vincent, has
ceased it's eruptions, but there are
fears of a renewal. The volcanic lake
which occupied the top of the noun
tain is believed to have disappeared.
Many of the surviving victims have
received injuries which cause ex-
circulating pain.
Great changes in the surface of the
islands in the Caribbean sea, as we'll
as in the sea itself, have been made by
the volcanic eruptions in Martinique