Deseret Evening News | 1902-09-05 | Page 4 | Mont Pelee Again Active

I MONT lEI I AGUS Ut IN cri V E EThe I II I The Thc Island of Martinique has ha been th h scone scene of terrible disaster In whIch t twi d are ald to have perished Tho Flie predictions made at the time of oC Iho ho de destruction of oC St Pierre to the limo effect that several everal volcanic would toll follOw w the tho first and most be been verified rho offered t the cause or oC the Is that the Wc Islands stand on limestone and um It la is supposed that the tho oil om and Me he by some means Or o other h r Ignited the heat has en to o the th converting It into Inlo quicklime W tr hn has the intense o heat and the tha gases havo haO the earths crust tite phenomena that have so O lI ce There is no safe on the tho stricken Island n as long nil as thin tho rosetta fires are An n outbreak may temporarily give moat Jon for Cor the explosive ly gases but time Iho craters t formed vii anon bo be filled up by the debris nail nn tho anon will be repeated Time TIle most ancient of title this continent records Of t similar catastrophes III Im the region ot oC the tha West Wes Indies and possiblY further east In inthe the tho ocean oceon where many be behoVe hoVe din cn entire lr with was sub aub submerged merged In prehistoric times The Tho F French government should provide for tor fora a general exodus from the island To stay there now Is to Providence