| Show STEAMER RODDAir ESCAPES Three Officers nand Eight of the Crete Were Killed lic London May 10Steele Young it Co of this city owners of the British steamer Kodilam which escaped from SL Pierre lo St Lucia received this morn lug the llrst news from their ugeuu at St Lucia l ns follows Torrlljlo volcanic eruption nt Martln Jciue Zloihlam returned OHO anchor nnd chain slipped TarjmulhiK mil rimnltitf gear burned Machinery Intact CaptaIn In hospital + i Two mules chief engineer and hUHlllal of crew dead Ten In hosplta Second iiml + l third enlnecra aboard dead Communication Campbell MinercnriTO dC CU11Inil lion Ijfiwccn hero and Hnrbndofa Inter Tablo communication between London and allo minim of Alartliilnue la I cut 0 < Tho British Admiralty Is I communlenUng with the cbmmandelJnlhltt of Lho British Brit-ish iia iIA l slatlon and 1 xvar vessel will bo dlroctcd to BO 10 Martinique I It IK apparent from tits cable dispatches received that the eruption ot the volcano I on Mont Pcleo will not do I mneh lamag I to tin Htiminor crop which Is usually con 1 mind In the t MiiiilHni part t ot the Ialuad i and tin sathrihur of which IH I now two thirds t over I However I ihu 1 wiping out IIf j the iiinncyixl 1 iiopulatlon t ventured at St I 1iorre IM I Imunil to t product I ihi 1 most aerl ous commercial ft > ci Not one of tllu I buMncsshuiiPis in London has heard a II I word from Its a rntn t In Martinique 11 I I A partner of the principal Ungllsh 1 I firm I I diHilliif with I Marilnlopio i said to t a reprc Hcntallvo t ur the As oclilid 1 PKSJS It 1 nnppoju1 all our agents lire dead No nhjch business IK I trnnsartod t brtwoon Knj 1 i land I anil ln rUn Ique Almost everythIng f I tjioiuw H I shipped direct to Uordcauv I which sniftTH tho most 1 know Mar unique wlll The last limo t I was there a few years apo there wore 1 onlv two Ka KllshuiPii and no Amorloani resident tt I St 1Iorrc thouch that town did a gooc t huslney with America lu the way or foodil tiffs A largo proportion of tho whlto popu latinn belongs 10 the old Freneh fa ml lien who prefer I SI rurro to any othoi part of th > Itland 1 We never for a nio I I meiit dioumcd Unit t Moat Pelee would I provo daiujtToU Fifty years ago some Finokc and Htoain lysucil from ita t oruvleiM I I but no atientlon was palil to It Unless tho lava overrun the whole Island whIch f Is 1 not likely the I disaster may not tun out to he as groat as i it at present seems j to be j |
