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Show STEAMER RODDAM ESCAPES. Threo Ofllccs and Firht of the Crew Were Killed. London May 10 Steele, Young c" Co of this cltv owners of Ihe llrltlsh steamer Itoddam, which escaped from St Pierre to St Lurli received this morn Ing the first news fiom their agents at St I in la ns follows 'Terrible volcanic eruption at Martin lone itvldatn rei irned One inrhor an I chain slipped Tarpaulins nn I running pear I timed Mai hlnerv Intnrt Cnpinin In hospltul Two matra clilpf engineer and eight or rn w dead Ten In hoepllnl S.ioii.1 and third engineers abosi.l Lampliell supercargo dead ( ommnntca II n b.twen here and Itarhadoes liner runted l able cnmmnnlrntlen between 1 nndnn and the Islan 1 ot Martinique n rut off The lirlllsh Vdmrrsllv is enmniunlraiing with the .omnismler In chief of the Hrli Isli navnl itatlnn and a vvnr vessel will be dlrectid to go lo Martinique It Is apparent from the ruble dispatches recelvl ihnr the eruption of lh volcano on Mnnt I'etee will not do much dnniiAQ to the summer crop which Is usuallv ion tin'd to the southern part of the irland and the f tth' ring or which Is now two thirds over However tho wiping nut of Ihe mnneve.1 topulatloo rentirtd at SI Pierre is bound to produce the most sen oils enmmep lot eitcrt Not ene of the business houses In London hns heard o word trnm Us nscnts In Martinique A partner ol the principal I ngllsh firm dealing with Martinique aid to rerre-sentitlve rerre-sentitlve or the Associated Press I suppose nil our ngenls ire dend N t much I uslness Is transacted between 1 nt land an I M irtlnlque Almost verilhug thence Ik shipped direct t UordeH ix which suffrrs Ihe most I know Mar Unique well The Inst time Ivii iher. a few enrs ago there wer onlv two l.n. allshmen an I no Americans resl lent at St 1 icrre thouali that town .lid a gool business with America In tho way of foodstuffs A largo proportion of ihe white popu lation belongs to the old I rench rami lies who pr fer St Pierre to any nthrr part of the island v never r.r a in i ment dremnd that Mnnt Tctee wr ill prove dangerous Fifty vears aRo some smoke nnd steam Issued from its crevlcci tut no attention was paid l It I nles Ihe lava overrun the whole Island which Is not llWelv the dlssstir ram not turn mi tn bo as great as It a t present secjrw to be ' |