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Show MADE UNINHABITABLE. Northern Portion of St. Vincent Absolutely Ab-solutely Ruined. Kingston, St. Vincent, Saturday, May 17. Tho continued heat thrown off by tho lava prevents nny one approaching the volcanlo mountain. Trom the sea tho estates of Walllbu nnd Richmond present n sceno of desolation. They nro bereft of vegetation and nil the buildings build-ings on them have been destroved. No living being is seen, and no sound of any kind Is heard Small Jets of steam Issue nt Interval from various pattn of the plantations as a warning to vlsltora nml the few courageous persons who have np-proncbed np-proncbed tho locality havo found tho earth thero to bo too hot to venture upon It Is presumed that Ln Soufrlere will In tho future remain active. Tho surrounding sur-rounding countty will then be unlnhnh-Ittible. unlnhnh-Ittible. The earth In that locality Is covered with volcanlo dust several feet In depth 'I ho loss ns a result nf the volcanic eruption Includes not only the present crops of tho Island, but cultivation will be Impeded for some yeais to come. Seilous fenrs nre entertnlned Hint nn-other nn-other eruption will otcur at tho font of the volcano, where steam Is cnntln-ii cnntln-ii illy Issuing from small Assures Tho locality Is tracked nil ovei Tho stinnge rcdor and the great depth nf the Inlet of the sen on the Walllbu estate Imply that nn eruption occuried theie, nnd that a new crater his been fotmed, which extends from the land Into the sen J ho suffcilngs of the nllllcled demand more conslderatlop thun the loss of life The torture of tho victims was Indescribable, many of them wete literally lit-erally roasted .. . A further shipment of medical np-pllcnies np-pllcnies food nnd lied ling nrilved hero icsteidav Three thousand of the nf-ftlcted nf-ftlcted nre being housed and fed by tho Government nnd the distress on the 1st ind of St Vincent must last for somo months to come. A sad stoiv Is related by n lid of it years, who lived 1 n v Hinge cnlled Overland, which wn demolished Ills father, mother nml nine brothers anil slateis were killed by th burning eruption erup-tion Tho boj' henrd nothing of them, nnd two diss nfter the disaster ho went to Overland In search of his fun llj He found them dead nnd without nsslstnnce he dug a trench nnd burled them nil |