Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-05-11 | Page 2 | Few Were Saved

j PEW WEED SAVED j Catastrophe Occurred on the Worst I I Possible Day I I I Bordeaux Franco Nay JO Only a few I 1 I replies have been received to messages of Inquiry from a host ot Bordeaux I merchants having business connections I In St Pierre A small number of messages mes-sages chronicle the saving oC private I families and Individuals but most of the dispatches are merely announcements announce-ments that big business establishments have been wiped ouL Jt has been developed that the catas tropo In Martinique occurred on the worst possible day namely the day of the arrival of the Fivnch and the departure I de-parture of the English mall steamers In consequence of this fact many business busi-ness men were In the city of St Pierre instead oJC at their country places I