Show ir or 0 rori FRANC 1 ti Suir cring AiD adiong ting tile lie it it suits abts or of aster atoll airl sorrow Sir row r I 1 TIANI me july 1 I 1 hanifin liin lin oil orthis city f I 1 ei 1 aletter yesterday their representative nt at SO 1 martinique nto d june annu 21 giving the lat st art icilla 11 curning tile iio great greal LI la franco alore than se hundred buildings were lie lili and with the i of i small portion fort la F desolate naia of 01 i I 1 1 I luciou are arc tan numerous nerous tit of A tile thu th ah po a troy k it fruit n the part of if those it wiio a lif V iq lias han colu ru cd chont I 1 to ado 08 tl I 1 must he bo hall had or the destitution il i that hat now prevails will become absolute starvation Fol following loing la is the letter th g dreadful calamity lamity cn coln commenced it at off sunday inday yi the 22 ad dinst jy by the iho following morning this antique town mas a mass of of charred ruins some coine say by it fight lic timit tile iho black men say by tho the carelessness ora of a it a ket coseno kanip or ii a furnace i ns as upturned upturn cJ in 1 I 1 finall bouso in the livirt of 1 lie town the lire ri rieba ht and lert before and in tho the tele teeth th of tile the 11 wind ill ii aich was blow in ins liko like a hinric ane rasing all along alic lie sea shore faltin oin the lest oro side of the savannah to alyer lemasson Le I the principal palt lait of the town tow n il ii in ruins ruing front froni six to seven ec cn thousand persons persona have bi broil bion on reli rendered dered homeless by tho the viita tion lion joany persons persona are severely injured ind and four soldiers soldier sare ire buried in tile the alazim inaho tho the hon boals of angui anguish ell from tile the filin tile franics llin ica their iran tio tic to escape destruction mothers crying for their children from whom they had fall been and vice versa the unavailing endeavors to save their nil all of many a poor one and their frantic cries of despair arli disappointment made a scene refined lalice ladica durins during il 1 I nights flights of tho the rall to lo beat I 1 and other oilier nanu nain loss closs privations hud illel on olt the eastern side of the iho S savannah and other apts of refuge driven by co crinnion coin ninion nion fright an d di dr nav when a leaf aning ex te kesao to sAo IN ai wyer tie j flail it loa occurred at irregular intervals the imprecations t of the excited mili liry iry the he lin av availing ailin g clors of those who hall had partially maintained theia pr of mind the wild incoherence of the masses n lien bothin nothing further could poi Bibly ly lie ile done to in save that part of the town tivit was consani ing were berc honora that will bo be nil all ever in mai alikin k in tile history of the colony for twenty fco four r hours had fall been without food and drink at st aliu al inott as lie ai trending as at fort li la france l rance |