Show MARTINIQUE IS A PLEASANT PLACE PLC TO DIE NE DE IN I CHICAGO May 10 lQ The The Island of Martinique and especially the city of st. st t. t Pierre is a beautiful place in which to o be born bor and a pleasant place to die but ut to live lve there is attended by more dangers angers than can cap be compensated for forby forby fory by y its is attractions 1 Vincent De Dc ocal representative ive tive of a French wholesale liquor house who vho thus characterizes the place which has as been visited by such terrible disaster disaster ter er was born bor In St St. pierre Pierre All Al of his amily jamily a sister her 1 daughter two uncles and several cousins are there Of their fate he knows nothing His sister ister is Mrs Joseph De Dc Massias His uncles are Alphonse De Dc Messimy and M. M I. I Augrain wealthy planters and his cousins Robert and Roger Augrain and Jaques Albert a d Marguerite Marguerie De Mes- Mes simy Until 1888 1688 when Mr De Messimy married a daughter of ot William WIlam Garesche of St St. Louis then American Consul to Martinique he remained In St. St Pierre but has visited there only once since Knowing the place as I do he said I have little doubt that the disaster was just as terrible as has been Jeen een de described described described de- de scribed and my anxiety for the fate of my sister and my other Is great There have been several eruptions eruptions tons of Mont ont Pelee but never such sUh a terrible catastrophe as that which is being described in the papers That Is why I think the reports have not been exaggerated Undoubtedly when ashes began to fall fal days ago ao people thought it would be unsafe to remain out of doors and when the fatal eruption came were caught In their houses victims of the false security engendered by previous ous comparative harmless dIsturbances disturb dIsturb- ances |