Show ESCAPE OF STEAMER TEA lER ROD DAM FROM HARBOR LONDON May 10 Steele Steele Young Co of this city owners of the British steamer which escaped from St. St Pierre t to St. St Lucia received this morning morning morning morn morn- ing the first news from their agents at St. St Lucia L as follows Terrible volcanic eruption at Martin Martin- ique returned One anch anchor r and chain slipped Tarpaulins and running ft in pear gear afo hospital burned Two Machinery cl mates nis intact J chief e engineer Captain r rand and eight of crew dead Ten In hospital Second and third engineers aboard Campbell supercargo dead Communication tion between here and Barbadoes Interrupted inter Inter- Cable communication between London and t the e island of Martinique is cut off The British Admiralty Is ib communicating with the commander in of the British BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish naval station and a war vessel will be directed to go to Martinique It is apparent from the cable dispatches es received t that at the eruption of the volcano on Mount i Pelee will not do much damage to the summer crop which Is usually II confined confined confined con con- fined to the southern part of the island and the gathering of which is now two- two I t thirds over However t the e wiping out of or I the moneyed population centred at St St. St Pierre rr is bound to produce u the most serious seri seii- ous commercial m effect Not o heo one of sl the houses houses' in London has heard a word from its agents n In Martinique lr A ii partner f of f the t principal I I English firm dealing with Martinique said to a representative representative representative of the Associated Press I i suppose all our agents are dead Not much business is transacted between England Eng Eng- land and Martinique Almost everything t thence ence is shipped direct to Bordeaux which suffers the most I know Martinique Martinique Martinique Mar Mar- well The last time I 1 was there a afew afew afew few years ears a ago o t there cre were ero only two Englishmen Englishmen En En- an and t no Americans resident a at t St St. Pierre though h that town did a good business s with America in the way of foodstuffs A large larg-e proportion of or the white population population lation lallon belongs to the old French families families families lies who prefer St. St Pierre to any other part of the island AVe We e never for a moment moment moment mo mo- ment dreamed that Monte Monto Pelee would prove provo dangerous Fifty 3 years ears ago some smoke a and steam Issued e from its cr crevices Ices but no eo eoa attention lI U was paid ll to it it Unless f s the lava overrun the whole island which is not likely I the disaster t may not turn turnout turnout ete out Sut to be as great t as it at t present r CI seems to be |