The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-23
TO GET AWAY
FROM ST. PIERRE
Everybody Anxious to Leave the
Stricken District.
DIXIE WITH FOOD ON BOARD
HAS ARRIVED AND rs ALLEVI-
ATING SUFFERING.
= oRT DE FRANCE. Island OF Mar

u ORT DE FRANCE. Island Of Mar
Unique, Wednesday. May q, 4 p.
m.-Mont Pelee seems to be rest
ing after Yesterdays fearful manifesto
tion Of energy. Streams of frightened
refugees have been pouring into Fort
de France from all the surrounding
country. These people are not desti-
tute. but they are terrified. They want
only one thing, and that is to be taken
far away from this island with which.
they say, the gods are angry, and
which they will destroy by fire before
it sinks under the sea-.
The consuls here and the officers of
the war vessels in the harbor are way
/ laid by persons erazed with fear and
/ begging to be carried away.
/ The weather is now calm and beauti-
/ full, but the mountain is yelled in vol
| canic clouds, which often assume q
/ very threatening aspect and occasional
rumblings are heard. Some heavy and
very welcome rain fell this morning.
! The United States steamer Dixie
Captain Berry, from New York, ar
rived today after a quick and safe
/ passage. Her passengers include many
/ world-famous scientists. Professor
Robert T. Hill, government geologisti
! Professor G. z. Borchgrevink, the Ant
arctic explorer, Messrs. George Curtis
and George KEENAN,, and many mag
azine writer's Ond correspondents are
also among those who arrived on the
| steamer.
The Dixie began landing her enor'
nous cargo of supplies early, and tbs
store house on shore soon became con
gested. and this is the greatest difti'
Guilty of the administration.
Difficult to Land.
The United States steamer Potomac
| went to inspect st. Pierre. with tn,
| commanders of the war vessels nov
here. With the greatest difficulty thu
party succeeded in making a landing
The effects OF the outburst Of yester
day was tremendous. The huge basilt
towers Of the cathedral were hurled ia
to the earth. The bonnbardment Of vol
canic stones is not sufficient TO aecoun
for this, and all evidence point to tn
passage of furious blast from blazing
gas, travelling at enormous speed ant
with incalculable force. The deposit o
boulders, ashes and angular stones
enormous. Net human being saw
what happened at st. Pierre yesterda,
morning. Fort de France is over
whelmed.
This second eruption was many time
more violent than that which efface
st. Pierre and swept its people from
the earth. Nor has all volcanic activit
ceased. Vast columns Of smoke an
gas still pour from the great crater
and new assures have opened on tn
mountain sides and are vomiting vel
low whirlWinds, which rush intermit
tently now from one point and nov
from another
Boiling mud is also thrown out a
times in torFsEtz that reach the sea an
produce small tidal waves.
All Want to Leave.
From a somber, silent city of deaf
and desolation. St. Pierre has become
] hideous amphitheatre OF fiery. roarin
destruction. The people are convince
that God is angry with the island an
means to scourge il with FIRE and the
= sink IL in the ocean. Utter and IN
reasoning fear possesses all sOul
Even Fort de France is believed to
unsafe The presence of the relic
ships. however, is helpful to the pee
pie. who say The American flag make
/, safety
The Potomac could not approac
2 close TO St. Pierre. The Dixie will sa
I tomorrow for st. Vincent, but the otht
vessels win remain.
The scientists who have arrived wi
!. examine into the question Of the daI
Z ger Of the peaks Of Carbet near Fort
I France becoming active volcanoes. tt
: outburst of yesterday probably NEAR
a ruined island, as all confidence
lost
We want not food, but only
leave is the cry of rich and poor.