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Show ISLAND A BEAUTIFUL SrOT. Danger, However, Too Great to Want to Live There. Chicago, May 10 The island or Martinique and especially the clt) ot St Pierre la a beautiful place In which to be born and a pleasant place to die, but to live there is attended b) more dangers than can b compensated for b) Its attractions ' Vincent De Messlmv local repiesenta-tlvo repiesenta-tlvo of a French wholesale liquor house who thus ch iracterlzea Ihe place which baa been visited by such terrible disaster disas-ter was born In Pt Plem All of his fimll) a sister her daughter, two tin. les and seveial i ouslns are there Of their fate h- knows nothing Hla sister Is Mrs Joseph De M issias Ills uncles ore Alphon De Messlmy onl M Augraln wealth) planters and his cousins Roheit and Roger iigroln and Jaques Albert and Matguerlte De Mes-aim) Mes-aim) Until ISHs when Mr De Messlmy mariled a daughter of W illlam Oaresche, of M Louis thm Vmerlcon Consul to Martinique he remained In St Pierre but has visited ther onl) once since Knowing the place ns I do he said I have little doubt that the disaster was Just as terrible as has been de scribed nnd m anxlet) for the fate of mv sister nnd ni) other relatives Is great There have been several erup-tlons erup-tlons of Mont l'elee but never such a tcrtible catastrophe as that which Is being described In the papeis That Is wh) I think the npnrts have not I een exoggerated Undoubted!) when ashes began to fall divs ago, people thought It would be unsafe to remain out of doors, and when the fatal eruption camo were caught In their houses, victims of the false securlt) engendered b) prevl ous comparative harmlesa dlstuib-anees dlstuib-anees ' |