The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-05-10
Reported That a French
Repair Steamer Rescued
Four Hundred and Fifty
Survivors--B Barba d 0 e S
Covered With Dust---
Loss May Reach Forty
Thousand.
CRy Associated Press.)

Pointe- A. Pirrie, Guadaloupe, May TO-
(Saturday Morning.)-The first mate OF
the Roraima thus described the disaster
at st. Pierre:
Between $3.50 and o'clock In the
morning on Thursday, without warning,
there came a sort Of whirlwind of steam
boiling mud and fire, which suddenly
swept the city and the roads. There
were some Is vessels anchored In the
harbor, including the Roraima, the
French sailing ship Taimya, four larger
sailing ships, and others.
"All five vessels Immediately canted
over and began to burn. The Tamaya
was a bark from Nantes, Captain
Maurice and was on her way to Pointe-
A-Pirrie.
"All the boats except the Raraim;
sunk suddenly. and at the same mo-
ment every house on shore was utterly
destroyed and apparently buried under
the ashes and burning lava.
Paved With Corpses.
"I'he officers who were sent ashore
penetrated but a short distance into the
city. They found only few walls
standing and the streets literally paved
with corpses. The governor of the ISL
ands, who arrived only few hours be-
fore the catastrophe, was killed. Both
the English and American consuls, with
their families, were reported to have
perished.
1T is certain that no more than 40 out
of about $4,000 could have escaped"
The cruiser Suchet was here yester-
day buying provisions for the survivors
In the outlying districts. She sailed for
l, soc ,t,,I,t 10,
quantity of stores, which were immedi.
ately put under military guard.
Negroes Want Food.
Negroes are flooding in vast numbers
into Fort de France from the surround
ing country demanding food
A telegram from Fort de France says
that hot mud and cinders have been
falling all night throughout the island
and still continue doing great damage
and that when the final reports are re-
ceived, it will be found that many people
have been killed or injured In other parts
OF Martinique.
The Quebec line steamship Korona ar
rived at the Island Of Dominica yester-
day, bringing a number of survivors
from her sister ship, the Rorainla. The
captain of the Korona says the eruption
dl 81. FleIfe was apparently from new
crater and that accompanying the erup-
ton. there seemed to be a tidal wave
which overwhelmed the shipping.
From st. Vincent.
A message from the Island of st. Vim
cent says: THE Soufriere has been in a
state of eruption for nine consecutive
mornings. On Thursday morning, the
day broke with heavy thunder and light
ming which soon changed into a eontinu-
Gus tremendous roar. Vast columns of
smoke rose over the mountain, becom-
ing denser and denser, and the scora-
vast amount of property.
upon all the adjacent estates, destroying
vast amount of porperty.
"At Chateau Belair, the ashes were two
feetdee p In the street. In Kingston they
were fully an inch deep and many large
stones fell in the parks Of Georgetown
Impenetrable Darkness.
"The earth shook violently and at 4
o'clock in the afternoon midnight dark
ness spread over the country. Thirty
people are known to be killed and the
damage to property in the Windward
district was very heavy.
'"The storm roared about Soufriere all
night without cessation, but on the fol-
lowing morning, 1t became intermittent
and fainter"
report from Barbados says on the
th' the sky was heavily overcast, the