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Show ' n s- SlIJililRt NEWS The gold coins In the bank at Martii nique melted together.The total esse of ptaru In Hong Fong for this jritl is eighteen.' There rs ,000 refugees st Fort da France, end rioting It feared there. It is estimated that the volcanio duet from Mont Pelee was thrown seven miles leto the sir. , . visited Tbe town ef Farlle, Is., was bv a conflagration that wiped out tbe entire fcnsleesa section. '7 It is claimed tbe volcano of Sanfriere la now 'quiet, ' but that the Martinique volcano la still very active. Z estabwill , Tbe Mexican government lish a legation at Havana; accrediting a minister plenipotentiary,, , , An automobiln collided with a girl on a bieyele at Toledo, 04 the glrf being instantly killed. An attempt h British parliament to gat the government to reform the laws relating to trades unions has failed. Enormous, erowdt of starving peasants are, flocking to Moscow, front the eentral provinces in search of -means of ' - Louis H. Ayme. l asted States con could scarcely distinguish the site of t1it the disaster Qurlously enough. ths talked with - Captain Muggah, Mr tnif suddenly, f the. jE ifse .best been desthe large buildings thsv-haof tps dead, were generally Scott, the first officer, and others. The the disaster fri troyed under the rain of fire,' Ufa, mud Inhhpltanta dt 3he city awpke to'flmj c a and reposeful, although In some tad been on the bridge ' " . and ashes. terrible hfeaey p lobdk- Paand' rul at Guadelpups, seeds tb follow from rib cable to the)6titcago-Trlbira- e Fort da France,1 island oT Martinique. I hare just retnrned from St. Pierre. The desolation of the, ruins of (bq pUy ' blasted by the fire and sulphurous fumes from the angry crater of Mont 9" Jelee can 'only .he inadequately pic: turydi t Not a half of the, horrora to - smoking volcsno towered hills. The ruins above were burniag In many .places and of burned flesh filled frightful odors " the atr. f With great difficulty a landing was affected. Not one house was left Inbe seen there have been' told. I left the Island pf Guadeloupe In tact. Viscid heaps of jnud. of brighter a chartered steamed Saturday night,, ashes, of piles of volcanic stones were We approached the site of' the oqce seen on every, aide. Here and there fair tropical dty soon after 6 oclock amid the ruins were heaps of corpses, In the morning. almost' all the faces were downward, f The Island with. It lofty .bills" was an It the- - unhappy victims tad rushed hidden behind a deaden colored .haze: tnto the street1 when tbs first shock Enormous quantities of th$ wreckage of the xdthktrophe' aroused them. 001 of large and small ships and 'hfiuses to meet abided and awful death that strewed. the surfaqerof thei sea. Huge smote them to the earth as they fan. So many piles of corpses were to be trees and, too often, bodies with flocks of sea gulls soaring above and hideous seen that Is Is difficult to describe any In one corner sharks fighting about them, were float in particular detail. bodies of men, women and lng here and there. From behind the twenty-tw- o The-sti- ll thftsh-covere- d shtoudlng the1, Mont crethi Alf the previews 'day loud detonations from, the volcaea had been heard, so loud that theverberaMonj echoed from 6L Thomas on thdnorth to Beiadoee on the south. The fearful crashing sound ceased and there began a shower 'of fine ashes, which tel! like rain over tke city. The inhabitants became alarmed, but Got. Motintet, whe arrived at St Pierre 'the evening before,- did everything possible to allay panlq. ,They partly succeeded, but scarcely had tlp fears Of tbs people been allayed when there the explosion, and la ai fccUat't-Plerr- e, lto people, lu houses, had been blotted r out of existence After a search of three hour In the rulne i found no trace of the imwi-- n consulate,. Consul Thomas T. PrenUs. hie wife and two daughters, a undoubtedly dead. That quarter of the dty .is .still a vast mass of blazing rains. Nor has any trace of dames Japp, the British consul, been . found. Mr. Japp had a large 'family at. 8t. Pierre. From. everything I saw ) feeT'confi-de- nt ttak 39.000 Is not too great an estimate of the loss of life: Every one In the city .perished, and suburban towns added thousands to the number of victims. plantations and' small villages have been devastated by the ceaseless vain of ashes and fire which - has poured . from, Mont Pelee. These survivors , have. taken rtfugi fa the hllla, gway from the .danger of the Java flow in the valleya, but etlll menaced by the ehowere of lira They must be relieved, taken to places of safety, fed and clothed.. The work muet be done quickly. Hundreds and even thousands of them must perish, as ft' Is before help can reach them, The-wor- k of exploring the ruins of St .PJerre, of bringing sway the refugees In the 4111s In the northern part of the lelgnd and of burning the bodies of tbeMctlms is progressing as rapidly as clrcujbslances wjll permit , 7 Fort d'e France la crowded with refugees and food ! already so scarce that alarm fit felt that It will be exhausted before 'supplies' can reach here." ' As a result Of the relief work the peoplq. who had fled to the hills be- -' hind the village of Le Precpeur, nearly 4,000 in number, have been brought here. - , , v , are In a most , pitiable condi, They tion. - Hundreds of them are frightfully burned end In most urgent need of medical care.; All the doctors and nurses In Fort de France are working night, and day among the Injured and (bey are assisted by scores of volunteer nurses, many women of the wealthiest families of Fqrt de Frgnco giving their services. A number Of steamers. Including the government vessel Ruble, started from here for St. Pierre. They carried government delegates,' a number of gendarmes, a detachment of .regular In? t , fantry and severs priests. ( The vessels also carried a quantity of fire wood,' petroleum qnd quicklime, for use In the cremation of. the bodies of the victims of the terrible volcanic outbreak, Large quantities of disinfectants add stocks of clothing for ths refugees were ,sUo shipped to le - te . 1 (From-(b- ; r New York Herald.) - e volcanic veil ckme blasts of hot wind vynlngled with others ice cold. At L Precheur. five miles north of 'pad wpmen ftntid St lerre. men to get away- - begged for-- a passage on the little steamer. We had room for 'none, but managed to pick up twenty wight half dead men, women and children! wbd were so badly burped-th- at steamer's they tad (o be lifted over the slxteeh' died aide,: Of the twenty-eigh- t, on the boat before we reached ' Fort' .de France. - Only three or fopr of the fathers are likely to Uriel ' t The condition of these .unfortunates Is ho worn than thousand? of refugees n the hills about Le frecheur. - Hundreds of them will die before relief vn reach them.. Thousands need medics! care, fpod.elthing; pad. abpvs all, in.-.- - P 1 pro-trade- - 4 i it t f t children were mingled lb one awful mass, arms and legs protruding as the hapless beings tell ln thelast Fromander. on enlarge stone tta.srmofa white "woman Most notable ,wa the uttet silence' and'the'swful, overpowering stench from the thousands of dead. t The fiery stream which so completely destroyed St. Pierre must have 'been composed of poisonous gases, which suffocated every one who in- baled them, and of other gases burning furiously, for nearly all the victims had their hands covering' thelf mouths r.were in some other' attitude showing that they bad sought relief frm, suffocation. All the "fbbdiea were carbonized or roasted, Through the. middle .of the old Place Berlin ran a,' tiny 'stream, the remains MONT GAR.OV, ST. VINCENTS 1 i t . , 5 s , ! ' DEATH-DEALE- T 'i R. si ... -- y vr 5 tbT ,i.r '7 . .. r Pierre. V jf In ' at V;'!ku ! 'Sg?, The captain was horribly .Were 't.pl- - burned h - . safe-keepin- g. hope that. a largq amount of money and other valuabl.ee deposited .by the b principal merpbanta.of the city-ma-. v . saved the atom of fire lasted not more than Shaft? v i- ' ' S 1 - A li ttir -t w' Ipy 'Tr y -- THE-CABL- V'l n9jlYffi t. rl rrr: ' ; Vtrtesnfs. which slfwdv has oivtrtf a Ttxsrusdan til th. smIIm lon wlavSt. ahd kill4 hunirsd,swUliUMa th ywCon .( U Sl&nd with ,, V, ,I l i., fii I wr to iinhiilta.arts. vnwbl. Mca. ' a4 sailc-strlck.- LT ! i 11 !A the steemer felt Its way down 'of .the .IUver Gayive; Great) frees, could we root island west and Twith the hoait of the . scotched by upward p aee that the whole north end of the fire, were strewn In every direction. Island was covered with a silver gray Huge blocks Snd 'still hdt stoutd were , coating of ashes resembling snow. 'Fu- scattered fabout The completeness of the catastrophe rious blasts of fire, ashes end mud f swept over th steamer but finally fit. 1 evident when If Is 'stated that, so , Pierre was reseted, pt atber'-th- a f pot far as knowfl at the present time)) no ; where 'St. Fierre stood before that awone save a handful of survlvofapUked ful three minutes. up from the wrecked yeseels la tbe For two miles along the water front harbor by the French cruiser Suchet, wnd for a half's mile back front shore escaped. Even they are unable to the foothills at the base of the vol- tell what Mutually happened, so grazed cano stretched the heaps of smoking are they from tbe experience they ruins. Streets there were none. One passed through. Lt Is certain, however. v I fI i f -- -- Tbere-wa- ne Jtrce of the4ktreets. s Huge heaps of smoking ashes-- were to . he seen on all sides ? V At 'the landing plhc some burned and .ruined wall indicated the spot where the custom house had formerly Stood, snd traces of the larger. shops r,uld be- eeen.' In that neighborhood hundreds of. corpses were found lying la all kinds of attitudes, Showing that the .victims met their death as If by a Ughraing stroke. Every - vestige of clothing' was burned away from the charred bodies, and In many cases the abdoiueus had been burst open by the - 1 er t .1 nr , boot-legge- rs now a Volcanic explosion is cavsed resident dealer, , . The splendid monument erected et Lebanon, Mo., to th memory of the 1st Richard Park Blsnd wlU be ua- -, veiled on Jane 17tb, William J. Bry. W. J. Stone nod others SB. Will deliver addressee. , . n Pole, Labode, aged 50 years, Henry , , . .! and Harvey Clsy, colored, aged 24 war instantly killed at Leavenworth, Kan,, by coming lb eon tact' with abtrbd e wire fence across which n broken bad wire fallen. light Monthly p blast foresee statistics bring out on very Interesting fact It la that for th first time in tbe history of the industry of th United States bat reached tbe enormous output of eleo-tri- over 1,600,000 gross tons in one month. lava-cover- ed m'S-'f- i 1 ' vol-cah- i r 4 -- l " five mlnutes.f - Joseph Beckles, a seaman, who Is fifty years of age and Is bo frightfully i burned that, he cannot Subsistence.' ' . "!? b' A College building collapsed it Leri-d- a ,'t T"T I ,, tf i V' V(Spain, Many pupils were burled s 1 k.' ! i -- i fc In the rulne The director end: five ( children perished,. ' ft rf 4. Owing to thn depression in thelinsa industry on the Continent the cottage was vers In the Bohemian forest are ret m duced to starvation. - w q f A concession ban been granted to iMr. Yerkes to construct underground T railway lines seder the very heart of 7 4 theelty of London; About 11,000 ooal handlers ha vs been laid off.Ay tbe leading coal roads in Buffalo, owing to tbe, strike ,1a the ' ' , ft iy coat fields anthracite J ' STEAMER POUTER O UERTIER, OF HAVRE WHICH , v The Soult Xfrican winter hat now BROUGHT 460 SURVIVORS TO PO.RTfrpEFRANCB, begun,1 end military men anticipate Nearly 4,000 of the refugees from the live, having Inhaled flame, said in weak that this will fo a long way toward invicinity of the village of Le Precheur, tonee that he wae the last mas to ducing thq Boers to surrender, a suburbaa village, were rescued tor the see the captain. The captain1 wae then .The cholera altuatlon in Manila and French criilser.Suchet and the cable trying to'reach a floating mattress, the provinces remains unchanged. The and were From the Italian ship Teresa liovtoo Increase repair ship Pouyer-QuartiIn cases continues and th faseveral men were saved, but they are brought here.. , etlll about 80 per cent. talities are As a result of lly inspection, the In Louie fHgbtful 'state, except Jean commander of the Sucbet reports that Prudent W Sfc Pierre. Although on It li reported that 'Gen. Alfero, the crevlces snd .vslieys are constantly .deck and 'unprotected, K he was little former president of Ecuador, Is prem forming In the northern portion of the burned. paring n revolutionary ' movement island, where the land Is la a state of - Prudent says thers was first an aw- against President Pisan of that Repub perpetual change. Fortunately, .that ful noise of explosion, and then tight lie. part. of the country was evacuated In way n ey clone of smoke and fire, but Tbe committee on Insular affairs ol good time by .the Inhabitants, who fled such was' the poisonous, choking' nabouse ordered s favorable report on the to Fort de France. ture of thd stnoke (hat It burned worse Leva continues to stream down the than the Are. The cyclone of gas tore the bill to provide for a delegate to th mountain side,, accompanied .'by 'tar the masts out of ships, blew other house of representatives from Porto ' rifle thunder ap'd lightning. J . ; up, and sunk some of them. Boon af- Rioo, , t . The flortee ef the survivors added to terwards came a wave of fire bigger Sloe the volcaoie disturbances In the awful details of the particularly than the emoke cloud. the Island of Martinique the tempera-ta- re harrowing account of the lose of the That ' cloud.".1 continued Prudent, of tbs water of Topo Chico hot Britbi steamer Roralma. was bigger. It seemed, than the Monterey, Mexico, baa f priog, C. i. Evans of Montreal and John mountain.1 I o crewud six degrees. G. torrls of New York, who are now the burned fire "The dty everywhere Tbe government announces that, at be military hospital of Fort ds at once. Near me. I saw only dead 6. Ae at arrived Frame, say the vessel men, but on shore I law men and after two days fighting, ths rebels in eigtt bells was struck a frightful ex- women rushing back and forth for an the southern part of tbe province of plosion was heard up the mountain. hour. They would not run long. Chi Li have been completely de felted A doud of fire, toppling and roaring, Then came that chocking smoke, and sod their leaders captured. swept with lightning speed down the they would drop like dead filet. Much excitement prevails at Barcemountain side and over the town and "The explosion, smoke and fire all bay. The Roralma was nearly sunk came and went ltt three minutes, hut lona, Wher the anarchists sr attemptand taught fire at once. The steamer the ing to provoke a general strike. The dty burned for three hours. Then captsln-generRoralma. had reached 8L Pierre that al finished pf Barcelona i taking was and nothing every botlsa to preserve order. day with ten passengers, among whom alive wae left 7 precautions , wen Mrs. Stokes and her three child- -, r'Botne men frorp the sinking ships Th Iowa supreme court has ruled remand Mrs. H. J. Iocs. They say to the shore, but they were burned that the' sals of liquor to got tlX of were rain aehee, watching they there ." and other resident violate rs of whes, with a frightful roar and ter--, up the law, eannot be prohibited when the sales are made by agents of nony ovra t : agony. Grim pHes .'of . bodies were Re had Inhaled flames and wanted to fU.fcod ..everywhere, .showing ..that Jump Into the sea. tried' to make .1 had stricken them while. the him. take a life :de'-Ths cappreserver.' .crowds were vainly, seeking eqcape tain, 'who' was undressed, Jumped Overthe On fiery one fret deluge. .spot board and hung on to Online tor ; a a rouh of nine children were found while. Then he disappeared.- 7 i locked la each others arms. ii Gua . Linger, the quartermaster of TM JDult Of ths. Bank of Martinithe steamer who. Is horribly burned que, at th hed of what bad been the ud (can scarcely talk, confirmed thla Rn de. IJlospltal.' were found- - Intact' Fraaelaock contained Angelo, who speaks' poor Tbrfi 2,000,000 fraac,.(J400.-00- 0 fa specie and other suriUes, English, vjvidly described the onrush of .tke fire,- - He says the captala wee whlfh were sent, here for The null pt tfce government freas- -' a brave man. too brave to be burned ary are now being searched , tn the to death: - Angela further asserted that de,, u A. rale, easem-ble- d bad; Le Carbet and Case Pilots, not tar from St, Pierre, and. It Is reported. thousand of .them .bare died since' the fearful stream of lava poured down Mont Pelei - f The eea tor miles round was covered with the wreckage of the vessels sunk off. SL ; Pierre, at. the time f,the disaster, sad ashore only a few frees, all lc bent seaward by the force 'of (he shower. were left standing. JYheai nearing Bb Pierre tfie Ruble met a number of tugs towing lighters filled with refugees.1 ti , 4 t oj The heat from the smoking,1 ruin At St Pierre was, suffocating aid the stench1'? from the corpse-strestreets, was awful. Only a. few walls were standing. . The report that the hospital clock was found intact will Us stands stopped At 7.Cd was confirmed, as was the statement that the .dfflee of the cable company . disappeared. fad entirely all sides were found portons of iorpsei, .which .were gathered up by f sold lets and gendarmes and bn: ed d one of the public squares, jj I Wot diop ot watef 'was'procnrfl'jl I bore, Th darkness caused; oy tbe g.o.uds of volcsqlc dust shrouded the tf'Wn, - and continuous subterra a an mbllng added to the horro Cl th" t ene. . t. g of t central for'and The quarter t town were razed to the ground and Were replaced by beds of hot cinders !fhe iron grill work gate of the government offices atone; was standing yhOfteike fright, ea11 '' Former President Kruger fans sent a message, of coo dole so to. president Lou bet, la which he esye that although 1 handicapped by circumstances, he desires to emphasize his sympathy by eontrlbatlng 800 franet toward tbs Martinique fund.'TTTr? Bernard Regards, s Filipino member of the United 8tates com mission, hsa A study ef fhe hvs ptoturs will hvr taw a molten mM tn ta mowntetoga riot ,n. t,e wotet ondhowtKd steam (vntcusi tlors by, ioUowIn tlte Unt sd brought a criminal snit against the SMtstsnoe, blow otf Iht tee of ta yolootte. newspaper Freedom of Manila for hav-$ fa libelous article were time' no At' any ing earthquake, ri'c electrical discharge, a cyclone of n fin, mud and stes ru ewept down from but big etoffes were gained down, snd which origioally appeared la Minn, " time." a JUke rain for fell Jong fire newspaper. crater Spanish , the OVer'the t3wuv and bay, i An imperial edlcthaa been Issued apsworplcg all before It' ind destroying , in a separate part of .the hospital the fleet of vessels at ancllof off the were found several periong. zaved from pointing Wu Ting Fang, ths Chinese from- St mile Corbet village,. four, shore. There the accounts of It minister at Washington, .and "Sheng t. , . Plerra , obtainable cease. tn ,t, Cbl to prepare a code of Chines "I nevrr can for get' th horrid, fiery, .The' village of lrrlne, south of St lawsFeng on modern sea Wu Ting Fang burned snd was almost entirely choking wairlwlnd which enveloped Pierre, Were' killed. will probably soon b recalled to China Inhabitant knd all the almost Morris said Mr. Evans. Mr, me," I rushed hiow, ' Ve sra not badly One of the survivors of lrrlne, who will to undertake this work. As ths result of a clash between Las burned not go badly, as most of them. die, say the eea, boiling hot. Invaded When the fire came We were going to the land. Six women, whose .bodies Tnrbas and members of th labor fedbut posts (we are engineer) to weigh are one solid., burn. are writhing la eration', a score of revolver shots were anchor nd g t out When w cam another ward of.the hospital Ten fired In the principal street of Sen burned from lrrlne Up we found the ship afire aft and women severely Juan, P. R. One men wee wounded fought lt forward until J oclock, when were brought In aid four of them have a ballet In the leg, and many perthe Suchet came to our rescue. W died, , It Is doubtful If any of the six by sons were cutor pounded. . . recover. alivecan still , were then building a raftJ A special bull fight, la which eight "Bea Benson tbefarpsnter of th A woman Jumps at a conclusion and bulla appeared, was held Thursday Koraima, said: I was on deck amidships. when 1 heard an explosion. The wins; a man hesitates and loses. afternoon at tbe Puerts del Sol xn to op oncboP. I captain fewer Uyte fifteen not know would With money,1 you got the wlndla.-i-, batvwhen the fire are to take place in connection with without 'nobody 'money, and yourself;came I went Into the forecastle ' the coronation festivities, snd over a cot my "duds. When I came out 1 would know you. hundred bulls sr to be killed. 1 . - 3 1 j eg ue A fr . 11 s , Mad-rld.B- No bull-figh- - ts ? |