Show ANOTHER RAIN OF FiRE Terrible Eruption of Mont Pelee Occurs MORNE ROUGE IS DESTROYED Tidal Wavo Sweeps Over the Village of La Carbet and Two Hundred Lives are Lost Volcano is Now Quiet the Eruption Having Occurred Oc-curred on Saturday Detonations During Saturday Night tho Loudest Loud-est that Have Been Heard Ashes Carried Far Out to Sea Castries Island of St Lucia British W I Sept 1Thc British steamer Korona arrived here yesterday evening from Fort dc France Island of Mar tinlqu She reports that a terrible eruption of Mont Pelec occurred at 9 oclock Saturday und people who arrived ar-rived at Fort do France from the northern north-ern part of the Island reported that the village of Mornc Rouge near the district dis-trict previously devastated had been entirely destroyed SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVE Le Ciirbel a village on the coast which wart destroyed at the time of the great eruption has been swept by a tidal wave bout 200 persons lost their HVOB A sloop from the island of St Vincent Vin-cent which reached here this morning reports that Mont Pelccs crater Is now quiet ISut the detonations during Saturday Sat-urday night were the loudest heard up to that time and that the Inhabitants were terribly alarmed ASHES FALL ON SHIPS A dispatch from Basse Terre Inland of Guadeloupe French West Indies dated Sunday August 31st says The French TransAtlantic companys steamer Salvador which has Just arrived ar-rived at PolntauPltrc reports that she left Fort de France Island of Martinique Mar-tinique yesterday afternoon and passed Mont Pelee at 7 oclock the same evening even-ing The volcano was then In violent eruption On approaching the islands of Les Salutes small Islands off the southern extremity of Guaduloupe ashes were falling on the vessel She arrived off PoIntauPJtre at 5 oclock hut was unable to enter the port until 10 oclock at night owing to the obscurity ob-scurity THREE SEPARATE ERUPTIONS Mont Pelee has been In constant eruption erup-tion since August 15th There was an enormous fall of ashes from the volcano vol-cano on the night of the 5th There was a very severe eruption on the night of the 2Sth when the volcanic rumblings rum-blings were heard at a great distance The mountain burned fiercely that night and out at sea passing vessels were covered with ashes On the night of the 30th there were three separate cruptlona PEOPLE ARE TERRORSTRICKEN It Is Impossible to approach the ruined town of SI Pierre from the sea The people of the village of Lc Carbet on the coast are terrorstricken and fleeing to tho interior Hot water Is pouring down on Lorraine and Basse Polntc villages to the northeast of tho crater Horrible detonations were heard the ground rocked and quaked and articles on tables were thrown to the floor The Governor of Martinique has ordered every available boat to remove re-move the people from the coast villages to Fort dc France BLACK CLOUD OF DUST At 8 oclock In the evening of Saturday Satur-day the 30th the sky was cloudless Suddenly and without warning onehalf of the horlxon wan obscured by I a pitch black cloud of dust This cloud vat a Trtagnlflcent electrical effect the flashes of light surpassing the most elaborate fireworks FKmes and flashes continued contin-ued to burst from the cloud until nearly near-ly midnight Columns of flames shot out of the crater of Mont Pclee to explode ex-plode about the cloud In showers of balls of golden fire which fell through the darkness In myriads of sparks TIDAL WAVE AT FT DE FRANCE A tidal wave rushed upon Fort de France and the terrified Inhabitants fled In large numbers to thu Interior The wave WHS not severe nnd did but slight damage At midnight oC the T0th = Mont Pclec was quiet shortly after this hour there raine another shower of ashes accompanied accom-panied by vivid sheet lightning KILLED IN NORTHERN DISTRICTS In addition to the 200 persons reported to have lost their lives at Lc Carbet and Mornc Rouge many other persons are Wild to have been lUlled l all over the northern districts of the Islands 1 The Governor of Martinique Is believed to have started for the scene of dc truc lon When the steamer Korona arrived ashes here yesterday she was covered with I |