| Show OIES AE AOZE Two Thousand Corpses Are Found Thus in St Pierre MANY STRANGE INSTANCES Charred Remains of Woman Pound With a Silk Handkerchief Unburned Un-burned and in Perfect Condition Held to Her Lips Crisped Bodies of Young Girls Found hut Their Shoes Unhurt Talks With Survivors Survi-vors Confirm Statements as to the Awful Suddenness of Catastrophe Fort De France Island of Martinique May 13 via PailsAs a result of the neasurcs taken by 1 the authorities air cess to St Pierre is now easier The ruins of the town have cencd smoking Two thousand corpses have been found in a carboniicd condition It Is learned hat the rain of lire censed at a distance of 200 yards from the village of Le Caret Car-et VWFUL SUDDENNESS OF DISASTER DIS-ASTER Talk with survivors of the disaster confirms statements as to the awful suddenness of the catastrophe It is thought that an enormous cilia utity of gas was liberated producing the at nospherlc pressure which overwhelmed everything before it The gastin absorbed ab-sorbed by the bodies of the victims cauacd them lo burst and the lire coning coni-ng afterward carbonized them This vas followed by h a rali of stones which enveloped the town but there was not ua has been said any How of lava TORNADOES OF FJ RE A gardener at he village of Morno lotige seven kilometres distant from St Pierre saw nt the moment of the disaster seven luminous points on Mont Pclue lie says he had the Impression of being violently drawn toward the volcano by l a powerful current of air Then the mountain opened according to the description of the gardener and flung tornadoes of lire at St Pierre PROVISIONS ARE NEEDED The northern section of this island is Icnopnlatcd Provisions are needed here Immediately for JOOOOO A shipload ship-load of lime Is also needed at SI Pierre fr sanitary purposes The stench there from the dead bodies Is overpowering STRANGE INSTANCES Many strange and incomprehensible Instances arc recounted of St Pierre The charred remains of a woman with a silk handkerchief unburned miamI In perfect condition hold to hr lips have been found there The crisped bodies of young girls have been found but heir shoes were unhurt PRAISE FOR U S CONSUL Every praise is given United Slates Consul Ayme He has worked indc fatlgabb lo succor the survivors He has bound the limbs of wounded md L has worked without i sleep and without with-out food tie is now thoroughly ex lausled Forty persons rescued from lhe city arc now in hospitals here STORIES OF SURVIVORS Public intercut centers in the stories of the survivors and In the efforts bong bo-ng made to succor the refugees A womin niimnd Laurent who was cm iloyed as a servant at St Pierre In the household of M I Gabriel and who was imong those taken to the hospital In this city Jn describing her experiences said WAS HORRIBLY BURNED On the day of the terrible disaster she heard a loud report nnd thereupon m fainted When she regained her senses a few hours later she was horribly burned and glancing around saw two members of the Gabriel family still alive but they died before assistance could reach them Mme < Laurent although al-though she lived for some time after being be-ing taken to the hospital I and was con clous wliile under the care of time l > hysiclnn died without t being able to Import any additional information concerning con-cerning the catastrophe Q NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE Margaret Stokes the t nineyearold daughter of the late I Clement Stokes of New York who with her tpothcr a brother aged 1 and n sister aged > was on the I illfated I I I British steamer lio S m 1 i I 1Pl 1II 4JL Is not expected to live MISS KINGS STORY Her nut re Clara King I ells the following fol-lowing story of her experiences She says she was In her stateroom when the sreward of Die Roralma called out to her Look at Mont Pelee She went on deck and saw a vast mass or black cloud coming down from the volcano The Kleward ordered her lo return lo the saloon saying It a coming ALMOST SUFFOCATED Miss Klhpr then rushed to time saloon She says she experienced a feeding of suffocation which was followed by intense in-tense heal The miller part of the Ro raima broke out in flames I3cn licnson the carpenter of I he JRoralme who Is now In a hospital here severely burned assisted Miss King and Margaret Slokea lo escape LITTLE ONES DIE OX RAFT With the help of Mr Scott the first mate of the Koralma he constructed a raft with life preservers Upon this Miss King and Margaret were placed While I thl Is was being done Margarelii Mllle IHother died Male Scott brought the child water at great personal danger but It wan unavailing Shortly after the death of the little boy Mrs Stokoq q ygiip FINALLY 11EPCIJKD Jlargarct and 3Hss Kln r eventually got si way on the t raft and were picked up by 1 the steamer Koronn Jlate Scott also escaped Miss Nhmtg olith < l not sustain sus-tain serious Injury She covered the face of MurKJufit with her drops but still the child was fatally burned ONE WOMAN StRVIVED ST PIERRE 1 Thc only woman known to have survived sur-vived the dIsaster at St Pierre was a noKress named Flllotte She was found In a cellar Saturday afternoon where shu had been for throe days She woJ still I tillve I but I fearfully I burned from head to toeS She died In lIme hoMpUnl hori 3IAHKKD IN I STJIANOK MAXN13R The patli of the volcano lava which swept over St Pierre Ls marked out In u strange manner The vicinity of the shore where vewols anchored was swept by a whirlwind of volcanic gae I which rippedtore and slmtnvd uvnry thing In Its I path but left fe trac of ilnders behind On ho oilier hand the front the center and adjoining I parts of St Pierre are hurled under a I thick layer of cinders which consumed everything beneath It POTOMAC REACHES MARTINIQUE The lnltod Stales Government tug Potomac which came to Martinique from San Juan Porto Rico cruised along thc coast of this Island yesterday afternoon t She encountered an Inky black column of smoke which made it necessary for her to go live miles oht of her course I LOOTING OF THE RUINS fc The looting of t the ruins has hcfftm already While coming to Fort pv France the I Potomac picked up a boat l containing I ilvt I colored miMi and jTne white I man whose pockets were filled with coin and Jewelry the latter M i dontly stripped from thc fingers of Ihe dead Lieut I I P 15 Cormick emu uni them th-em of thc I Potomac nnvsiod these I men and turned them I over to I fie commander com-mander of tri t French cruiser Sucjiet for punishment The Potomac p iso brought i a ton of supplies to I Ala ufl n Ivjue consisting1 In part of codfish pml Hour I HourSUCCORING SUCCORING THE REFUGEES The work of succoring the refugees continues Incessantly When lha I cable repair sdilp Foyer Quertlcr Capt Tihlr ion started on her mission of mercy she had to pass through cloudsj of burning cindirs at the risk of cafeh big fire In order lo t reach the terror stricken people ashore Rut I aial Tell oly announced she succeeded in I bringing to t this port liid i people mftln ly former residents of the villagq of lc Preehcur This was on Satin tlny last Since then thc steamer as thc result of other daring trips luis iie ceedecl In bringing many other pcmmouis to Fort De France Oil Sunday she rescued i1 i persons and piloted < thc French cruiser Sachet and the Danish cruiser Valkyrien who took on board 3500 persons The Poyer Questier has distributed to the stillorern large quantities quan-tities of biscuits milk wine and cheese SITUATION AT ST VINCENT Thc United States tug Poiomac will leave here today for the Island of SL Vincent where conditions are reported to be worse Soufricre on St VJncenl was In full eruption May I0th A stream of stones and mud half n mile wide was then Issuing from the volcano vol-cano Stones two Inches in diameter fell twelve miles away At Kincslon thc I capital of the island the ashes were two inches deep Seven hundred dead were reported Sunday May lllh TWO THOUSAND DEAD It Is estimated lhat the t total number num-ber of deaths In St Vincent reaches two I thousand mostly Carlh J mil aim Most of the seven estates on thc Island have been burnecla to ashes and U Is authentically reported that two earthquakes earth-quakes occurred there H is believed the t submarine cables In St Vincent have been broken by thc dlsttubancej Thc present volcanic eruption on SL Vincent is the first since 1S12 |
