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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS. AWDKKW JKMIK, TuUtoW. SPANISH PORK, UTAH. UTAH STATE NEWS. Sevler.county will have a good grape crop, despite the frost of May. It la probable that President Roosevelt will visit Utah in September. The Fayson City postofllce is to be raised to the presidential grade soon. The fruit erop in the lower end of Wayne county and at Fruita and Tor-re-y escaped unhurt from the recent frost. The indications are that In Washington county this year the record for fruit and vegetable crops will be broken. The citizens of Taylor are making it warm for a saloonkeeper of that place, the charge being made that he has been selling liquor to minors. The selection of a jury in the case cost the state not less than $35,000 and consumed eighteen days time, 1,163 veniremen being drawn. In Wayne county the lucerne is being cut to start it growing again, as the tops were frosted so badly that it had to grow from the roots again, A small boy set fire to a barn at Farmington last week, the damage done amounting to about $1,000. The lad will probably be sent to the reform Mor-tens- en school. Sixty riders enter the Decoration day road race from Salt Lake to Farmington. J. II. Tate, of Tooele, won the first prize in 54 minutes and 20 seconds. Edna Jensen, aged 6, of Monroe, while playing with matches, lighted her clothing and was severly burned, her life being saved by her father rolling her in an irrigation ditch. Grasshoppers are now hatching out at a lively rate from Richfield to Monroe, and people are beginning to fear they have looked upon the possible plague of this pest too lightly. Salt Lake ofllcials are much excited over some bones found in a building which was burned recently, they, being of the opinion a murder was committed and the building burned to conceal the crime. During the past two weeks 100,000 pounds of old potatoes have been shipped east from SL George. They bad to be hauled in wagons from forty to fifty miles and netted the farmers 00 cents a hundred. The family of George Shepler, of Salt Lake, narrowly escaped cremation last week, the roof of the burning building falling in while they were atill in bed. Firemen rushed in and saved the family. At Providence the nine months old babe of Mr. and Mrs. John Gregg, of that place, pulled a pan of boiling milk down onto it, the little one being so badly scalded that it died within two hours after the accident. FURTHER DETAILS OF MARTINIQUE HORROR 0 Which He Passed Captain of the Steamer Roddam Describes the Terrible Scenes Through Tale Rerhaps Never Had a Parallel in Stories of the Sea miles west of Barbados and between St. Lucia and the Grena lines. From north to south streteliei a ridge o high, wooded hills, extending to tha sea on either side. The Soufriere which is now in eruption, is in tha northwest. It towers 3,000 feet ahova the sea. Its crater is three miles jn circumference and 500 feet deep, From the summit the view on all Bides was Buperb. Eastward over the new crater formed in 1812 the Atlantic was visible through the hill ranges; westward to th blue waters of tha Caribbean, and on the margin of tha bay the quaint and curious town of Chateau Belair. Travelers who hava stood on the highest point describe BIRDS-EY- E VIEW. OF PART OF THE WEST INDIES SHOWING SCENES OF VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE the view of Morne Garou as a spectacle of grandeur, with the vast forest clambering over lofty glen right to tha peak and deep-hewJjfjf northern- - verge, where, twenty miles off, the island dips under the blue waves. jtHTIOVA The climate of St. Vincent is unusmr-n5mj (tn ually humid, the average rainfall beibaxsioos ing seven feet annually. But the mortality rate Is low and the inhabitants 9UMSSKINCA enjoy excellent health. The soil In if ."SO 6 ? the valleys Is a rich loam, well calculated for the growing of cotton and SABA 1 ' r Danish CtimlfemsiEN'cauLD not Ctr S avvNw-- V, xiAgvuwB. Xttr'HZl cocoa palms, as well as sugar cane. WITHIN tNtix tjc f HILEJ CfjT.PlCne. ,hAoleno The average temperature is 85 deftttvwVasitcvraMKlTOi Sr. Tmc-igrees Fahrenheit in the high lands. In the low lands it hovers between 90 52-CUFADA and 95. The island has been noted for the beauty of the plumage of its nciotx birds and for its rare specimens of insect life. u rtvirxrrvvmress k It is the home of the giant firefly, and leave the same night. In the her smokestacks were gone. When to sea. Slowly the sky cleared, and impalpable dust was carried by the whose phosphorescent brilliancy is so harbor news was received of the St. the watchman dug into the lava he it was possible for him to see about trade winds to the islands of Barba- great that one fly will shed sufficient Pierre disaster, and, lying at anchor, found here and there fragments of him. Men in the red hot lava lay dos and St. Lucia and turned day into light by which to read a book or was all that was left of the Roddam. human remains. All that was left of dying all along his track. He himnewspaper. A dozen of these insects night. The inhabitants became All St. Lucia was In mourning and the ship was her hull, and that, being self, though he stayed at the wheel, with fear and abandoned will light up a large room, and the was unable to lift his burned arms. their ordinary vocations and devoted Caribs, in the olden days, used them the people were so distracted by the iron, had escaped destruction. Unlike for purposes of illumination. hews from the neighboring island that Hearing that Capt. Freeman was Blood from his forehead kept running themselves to prayer and fasting. It was not until May 11 that Capt. at the Hotel Fellte, we called on him. into his eyes, obscuring his vision. He This was the closing period of a the birds of the tropics farther south, Cantell could obtain coal and pass on I wanted to get from his own lips the likened his escape to the passage from series of volcanic eruptions which the birds of the forests of St. Vincent Ms Journey. St. Pierre was passed story of his escape. 1 was unprepared hell Into heaven. At last he reached had lasted two years, and the dlrec- - are not only brilliantly feathered, but at a distance of about four miles and for the terrible sight which greeted all on board studied the land with my eyes when I entered the room. i.'yv-.r'!." CapL Freemans face was burned passes. - - ( v .. Y v.vt'.' V: ; ; Qy . "The vjeather was clear and we had to the color of teak wood and large h-'- a fine view, said the captain, "but patches of skin and flesh were burned Tv. v";v i. '"T i, . i the old lines of St. Pierre were not from his bones, here and there. Both r . : 11 recognizable. Everything was a mass his hands were swathed In bandages. of blue lava, and the formation tv, of His hair and mustache were gone, his 'V7 tha land Itself seemed to have eyes were tied open and he was in vV changed. When we were about eight great pain. When I told him who I ( w miles off the northern end of the Is- was he talked a great deal, to relieve I'? i - f tfc. land Mont Pelee began to belch a himself, he said, of his suffering. "He said the Roddam had been In second time. Clouds of smoke and lava shot into the air and spread over St. Pierre only an hour when the erupall the sea, darkening the sun. Our tion occurred. He was talking to an decks in a few minutes were cov- agent in a boat alongside when a big ered with a substance that looked like black squall approached the ship 'oasi I'lij, sand dyed brown, which smelled like from the island. It was like a black SHi accora-was and traveled fast ! wall, phosphorous. "Partial darkness came upon us, punled by a tidal wave and a deafen-- I and everybody on board the ship was lng roar. The sun disappeared im-- I badly frightened. After mediately. wa had heard and the sights we had "CapL Freeman said that he shouted seen at SL Lucia we did not know to everybody to stand clear. An InV.' .'V . . .T- ..71 - L- -, vy but that we ourselves were to bo bur- stant later the air was filled with flame led under red-ho- t lava or engulfed by and falling batclieB of fire. The ship mrr1 another tidal wave, though we were was Immediately ablaze from end to KiPa.-- i " V SI, crew then ten miles from shore. the aboat.l and and laborers end. v "Crowd on steam, 1 whistled to began to rush about, frantic with pain. Chief Engineer Farrlsh, and he needAs nearly as he could remember there ed no urging. Slowly we drew away were forty-tw- o persons aboard the through a suffocating atmosphere, ship, only six of whom survived. The L 4 , foot by foot, yard by yard, and at last ship .keeled over when the tidal wave Then the sun began shining. We had hit her and nearly capsized. passed outside the hailstorm of dust she righted and the falling shower of wines) plRAKATQA ITi ACTION (rnofi a wotogijapb iwnr and sand. When I looked at my fire continued. watch I found that we had been about "Capt. Freeman ran into the chart-rooan hour reaching daylight. but was driven out again by the open sea, and with the help of two tion of the seismic wave was not un- are possessed of melodious song. On "Our decks were covered two Inches flames that came in at the port hole. sailors, two engineers and the boat- like that which devastated is a sort of mountain oriole, which Martinique. with this matter, and the captain ex- Thm he rushed to the engine room swain, succeeded in taking his boat tv The disturbance In 1812 seemed to has a note of peculiar sweetness anJ hibited a box of volcanic dust, which telephone and. signaled the engineer to SL Lucia. pass under the bed of the ocean to wonderful penetration. As In most countries where earth"During the run out of the harbor Venezuela, Caracas, the capttal of the chief engineer died a horrible that country, was partly destroyed by quakes are feared, the houses are, ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT. dentb. He escaped the first shock, an earthquake and 10,000 persons per- as a rule, one story In hcighL The started the engines and, not finding ished. With tho exception of the more pretentious are two stories, and his men below, went on deck to look great Lisbon earthquake, tho eruption tho public buildings are three, but the for them. As he thrust his head out of the mighty mountain was the most descendants of tho Carib Indians re- of the hatch a mass of lava fell upon him. burning one side of his face com!? ' ' of the Roddam. which escaped from St. Pierre May 8. The watcaman wav engaged In gathering up fragments of human bodies and putting them away bound to New York from Montevideo in the locker. He, discontinued the and St. Lucia, has arrived at New work to show us around. "The Roddam presented an awful York. Her captain, John Cantcll, and lier passengers brought with them a spectacle. She looked as If she had thrilling story, not only of tholr own been thrust into soft, clinging mud experience In the second eruption of and pulled out again. v The mud stuck Martinique's destroyer, but of the to her like cement and was two feet Roddam and her heroic captain, whom deep on her decks. Awnings, stanthey visited In the St. Lucia hospital. chions and boat covers had been The Etona reached St. Lucia on the burned or swept away. Tarpaulins, evening of May 10, expecting to coal rails, stays, hatch covers and even First of all the shins that passed through the shower of ashes of Mont Pdfeo and reached the American mainland to tell about It, the British Etona, the group, is of volcanic origin and culminates in the vast crater of Morne y Garou, which in 1812 was the scene of a tremendous eruption. Billions of tons of rook and earth were hurled high into the air part, as molten lava, flowed down into the sea; part, shivered into thin dust, was carried high up into the clouds. For three days the awful convulsions of nature continued. The dust from the crater so obscured the rays of the sun and brought on a darkness so terrifying that the few survivors believed that the world had come to an end. The "Men on the Roralma were wringabout ing their hands and rushing them jumped infrantically. Some-oto the sea, where they nrnst have died instantly, Capt. Freeman said, for the water was boiling like a caldron. It was like a mass of boiling mud. Many of the Roddams crew had disappeared, probably swept overboard, and the rest went one by one until only six were left. Every one of them must have died a terrible death. "After a time the captain got the steering gear working, the ship answered her helm and ho headed her out f g o 0. iri T- y h w $ panic-stricke- n 1 - , r r-v- (p:tr:.ap. . j if Hi" the-storie- s , n Ralph Mclnerny and Anthony were killed at the Golden Gate mill, Mercur, Friday last. They were cleaning out the ore in a chute when they were burried underneath the ore, death being due to suffocation. Boy-la- Casey Adams, who was arrested at bait Lake Cityreccntly is wanted at Helena, Mout., to uswer to the charge of burglary. It is alleged he robbed the residence of J. It. Collins securing a large' a mount of valuable jewelry. The postofllce department has announced the following changes In the salaries of Utah postmasters, to take effect July 1: llingham Canyon, from $l,lu0 to $1,400: Mercur, from $1,400 to $1,300; Ogden, from $3,800 to $3,000; Spriogville, from $1,100 to $3,300; Logan, from $3, TOO to $3,300; Nephl, from $1,300 to $1,400; Park City, from $1,700 to $1,800. Grave fears are being entertained at Manti by the farmers on account of the myriads of grasshoppers that hare hatched during the past week. The foothills to the northeast of the city aeem to be a moving mass of grasshoppers. Edward C. Graves shot and killed his wife and then suicided at their home in Salt Lake last Friday. He left a note stating his wife had been untrue to him. Graves was a member of ltattery It, which went from Utah to the Philippines. Lee B. Wright, an attorney of Park City, was accidentally shot in the foot by his wife while the couple were on a pleasure trip last week. They had been shooting at a target when Mrs. Wright accidentally discharged the gnn with the result stated. Sheriff Storm of l'roro believes that Spring-vil- e Ray Hanson, tne boy whose death from aulcide was reported from Rawlins, was murdered. The sheriff states It would have been almost impossible for the hoy to bavo inflicted the wound that caused his 3-- v-'.- , . rar if M. pletely .yf'IEES lake --1: ITATEK? g-f- f M chateau, ' ,i ' t I J a ' S ft v V h I PEAK u '?0' I. ? I off, "CapL Freemans performance perhaps never hnd a parallel In Btorles of the sea." continued Capt. Cantell. "When the Roddam arrived at SL Lucia, the brave man refused all medical treatment until the others were cared for. lie will live, the doctors tell me." BEAUTIFUL v. ifGEORGETOWN o r 'a 1 ' kv.1 f V- WMWB '(l v " it" r'f .e. .S', TT CHARLOTTE KINC3TOWN&X W ( , $ (7 7, t HEAD had been saved by his crew. "You can see the marks of it yet about the death. masts snd our polished woodwork, A freight ear loaded with powder and I don't thlyk my pawitgors are and oil caught tiro In the Short Line yet over their fright, No rurtordty yarda at bait Lake Inst week and exwould ever take us nu"dn near tliat ploded, wrecking the car and ahuklng terrible place. up the oecupimla of the buildings in "Before leaving Ft. Lucia," Capt. the vicinity of the seclitent. Had the Cantell said, "we tisltcd the wreck explosion occurred In the daytime the toss of life would have been great. w BONiMOITME ' Y- -' . - a' r i sL X' ISl OF ST. VINCENT Furl hr Tarallta llefora tha a Awful ar, St. Vincent, which has suffered from the eruption of its owu souflrlero volcano, is one of tho most beautiful and in plcturesquo Islands the British West Indian group. It 1ms an area of 131 square miles and lias been as one of the flashing Jewels that He like a necklace around tho Caribbean Rea. The last British census credited it with a population of 50,000, of whom a large majority are negroes engaged In tho cultivation of sugar cane, which is tho principal crop. Two hundred years ago it was the home of the Carib Indians, who were Induced by tho French to Join in a revolution against England. They were crushed and thousands wero Was a KfMOut lll-a- LAKK IV (HtTKIt THAT HAS DISAl'lE IRKU known to the gard these as dangerous and cannot frightful cataclysm world up to that time. Tho wholo he induced to enter them. of tho island was configuration changed. The eastern end sank into 8oretry Klmw'N Fxrpli put on full ntonm. Some one responded tho sea. and where It stood there la Mr. Mounted on a "single-footer,- " and the ship iugan to move, but the now a great depth of water. Tho vol- Shaw, of (d the secretary treasury, steering gtar was Jammed and would ; transported. Hundreds, rather than canic forces remained quiescent until Tb rot work. He kept the engines going submit, threw themselves Into tha DSfl, and then the warning rumble fora ride nearly every afternoon. tin animal's la so that smooth guit ahead end alternately, hoping sea. A few descendants of these orlg- wan beard again; but It was a false rider gets as much cxerclso m though to free the paddies, and in so doing Inal owners of the island still exist alarm, and tho terrible scenea of tho ho was swinging In a hammock. Bid on'Jauds granted to them by tho Brit- early part of tho century weho not re- then tho secretary on nuch trip 1 ish government. peated. more like a man doing his duty tb and fi.imo weie rising. SL Ylnegut, Jibe all tho Island lo Tho island of St. Vincent lies 100 but for a pkasurs rtds, - |