Show VOLCANO MAY NAY HAVE CLAIMED MANY VICTIMS Loss of Life in Villages at Base Almost Certain WANT TRANSPORT SENT SENT- TO KODIAK ISLAND Loss of For Forage ge and Pollution Pollution Pol Pol- lution of Water Hardon Hard on StocK Sto k SEATTLE Wash J June Jine ne 1 12 Details Details of the havoc wrought ht alon along the Al Al- a asks aska peninsula and the adjoining islands islands islands is is- lands of Kodiak Afognak and Rasp Rasp- Raspberry berry by bJ tho the eruption of volcano vol cano cane which burst forth last Thursday are co coming in slow slowly From Froni the meager meager mea mea- ger er reports received at Seward the nearest cable station to the tI scene ene of of the disaster it is apparent nt that the th treat greatest damage was done probably with h great r at loss of life Rmon among the littie littie lit lit- tie He fishing villages on the coast of th the peninsula virtually at the foot of th thol the ol volcano ano N No definite news has baa been received receive from C these h so o settlements which h have p pula mot f about COO mostly n na nav H s J l v ro U ak i a 8 aper per I erous us cannery cannery- town on the opposite side of strait e said did id that it was Wa frail I improbable that tho those on the mainland nd ad I. I escaped The The news from indicated bow however ever that there then was Wu no l loss oas ss o olife oi of life on Kodiak island the largest and I most mosi populous of the tho distressed d' d gro group p. p Efforts to Aid Stricken ken Every effort is being beins made to g get ge aid to the stricken villages e Captain L I Kirtland W. W Berr Berry commander of the revenue o cutter Manning b has s been at al Kodiak since the eruption began and has hat taken personal p ch charge r e of dir directing ti g relief His vessel undoubtedly save L the lives of man many persons in Kodiak for he be ordered all the OO men men women and children in the town to board his ship hit as soon Boon as the eruption eruption began bean and si since ce the outburst subsided the tho officers and crew of the Manning have devoted de all their their- energy to assisting the destitute people Calls Cans for relief funds have been s sent nt out h by committees appointed b by the I citizens of Cordova Cordo and Seward eTVard The Thc government has been asked to order th the tra transport sport Sheridan which is in Alaskan waters to proceed at once to Kodiak The transport is stocked with I. I provisions which are arc orely needed inthe in inthe inthe the distressed district The effect of tIme the eruption on vegetation tion was indicated by a a. message re- re b by S. S N. N Snodgrass who haschar has char charge e ot the tho government o experimental station at Kodiak now in Seattle which said that thore there was was imminent danger danser of Josin losing all the stock at the tho station because of the pollution of ot the wat water r supply and tho destruction of I fora forage c and grain rain A supply of or grain I for the stock stork was shipped from Sitka yesterday I |