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Show NEW YORKERS LOSE HEAVILY. Were Largely Interested in Trade With the Island. New lork, Miy 10 St Pleire, Martinique, Just destro)cd b) a volcanic eruption had u lare coimneiilal trade with thla rll rout or live largi hnus.fi latrled on a liuriness of at least J6O0 000 aiiuuallv One of these houses It Is known hid JlOonon n.tnallv Invested In and about St l'lene while the expoita of lloui nnd provisions on Ihlrt) dna neilit aie luge It la istunite.l that the tosses of tile flour trade alone are I"' 00 nnd Iho provision tmtlt as much more NI.W YOIIKIIHS IIP MID FROM W P Iough n member of Ihe New lork 1 roduce exc hinge mil II 1" Dirnll el in about whom great anxiety was felt, art who was sup posed to have been on the steamship Itoddim has been hi ard from lis. firm received the following message from him this afternoon, dated Dominica Domini-ca Fire haa consumed ever) thing on the Roralma Think It advisable to duplicate oiders" Mr Darrll ald he did not regard It as unllkel) that thla message was sent from St Lurli by boat to Dominica and from there forwarded to this rlty SnVKRAL FAMIL1F.S SA. ED Another lirm which was gientl) concerned con-cerned about the real condition of things In St Pierre was the American Trading enmnan) Henr) C Deine-dull Deine-dull who mnnagoa the French West Indies business of the firm has a sister and n brother In the cltv and he made Vigorous efforts to get news from them, and from th business houses of tt Pierre In whose welfare he was espe-clall) espe-clall) Interested It being Impossible lo obtain any Information from St Pierre or Fort de France cablegrams were sent to France In response to an Inqulr) cabled to Bordeaux this message was tecelvod todav ' Sue cesalvn CHbles announce that several families that took refuge at Morne Rouge ate safe The) announce also the deaths of the Camlnades and Ixnils Ha)Ot OLD FtRM OONF The Camlnadp biothers were members mem-bers of ono of tho oldest and most Important families In Miillnlqite Their names were (laston ami Raphael They nwnril large slotea In St Pierre a bikery several distilleries and sugar plantations The firm of Mlddleton K 1 o of this ell) wnn also veiv much In tercsted In the fate or these two broth ers and a tnessagi wna sent to Paris tola) Inquiring about thnn to which enmo the brief replv Ml dead ' HUUNI'D TO 1)1 ATI! Charles Testart of 11 New street this city, la n son of the Fulled States Ice. Consul nt St Pierre me.ee restart Young Mr restnrt also has a sister In that city, Mine Measlnl He said today to-day tint from icpoits which had" reached the tllv he feared that the members of hla family had been killed A report reached this city todi), pur-poitlng pur-poitlng tn have come b) .able from Fort de Frnnce. that Oeneral Manager Jellardart of the Fremh table company com-pany nt St. Pierre had been l,urnd to death SHIPS Attn Dl STItOYFD At the ofllce of Foulke & Co the owners of the barkentlne L W Norton, Nor-ton, which la supposed to have gone down In the harhor of M Pierre It was said today that not n word of the ship had been heard The ship was charleied by the Amerli in Trading enmptny, nnd had a cargo of about "30 no.) value Members of the firm of L W. oi P Armstiong sail they had heard noth-Ing noth-Ing of their ship, the Talisman They weie still under the belief however thnt the vessel wna at ltarba Iocs, and that she had escaped the fury of Mount I'eleo |