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Show BODIES ABE UNBUBIED Horrifying Details of Condition Condi-tion in St. Vincent. MANY SICKENING FINDS Houses rilled With Decaying Corpus of Vlcllmr. at Lruntlon of Soufrlero Thousand, of Cattlo and Human Bodies- Lay ln State of DecompositionMany Decomposi-tionMany Injured Havo Bten Ta-ken Ta-ken to Kingston, Number Suiter-lng Suiter-lng Fiom Tractured Skull. Ciused by Volcanic Stones Sulking Them. Kingston, St Vincent, May 17 ln the absence of ssmptoms of further eruptions of the volcano eit Soufrlere, the Inhabitants of M Vincent nre gradually grad-ually becoming settled. Most horrifying horrify-ing details of the condition of tho Car-rlbean Car-rlbean countrs'. where thousands of c attic and human corpses lay 111 a stain of decomposition for several das during dur-ing tho agitation ate revealed Although Ihe number of deaths In the Island, due to the dust Is estimated at ;000 up to the night ot Mas Uth, only 1218 bodies hid been burled Ihe undiscovered un-discovered bodies arc piobably coveied with lava COUISi:a UNItHCOONI.ARLH. In ft small shop which wns opened three class utter the eruption, e-lkhts-seven decaying corpses were discovered, discov-ered, and not one of them was rerog-nlziblc rerog-nlziblc Jn tho dwelling house nf the manager nf one of the estates thirty corpses weie found In ii slmll ir condition, condi-tion, nnd other sickening discoveries have been made MANY PHOPLH INJURED. The district Is being rapidly cleared. A number of patients hnve been brought to this cits. Many aio Buffering Buffer-ing from fractuied skulls caused by the stones thtovvn from the volcuno nnd a m-ijorlts of them were burned by the lava thrown up with the vapor. ANOTHKR 8L1011T CONVULSION. Toward evening sesterday there was a slight convulsion, followed by ft small discharge of smoke, but this caused no alarm. The weather Is fine and the excitement Is abating Tho bed of Inva In tho Windward district Is sllll hot. C1RUAT ARYSd F1LLF.D UP. Tho nbsss, 1500 feet deep and S00 feet wide, which existed between Langley pnrk and Rabaccl. Is llllcd with lava, and the principal feature of tho mountain on cither side nro apparently more beautiful than beforo tho eruption. erup-tion. CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCK. A curious circumstance connected with tho eruption Is that the earthquakes earth-quakes were not general, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the smallnesa of the U'and. Whllo nt Chateau llelalr the convulsions preceding pre-ceding the eruption of May 7th were almost continuous, every few hours. In Kingston and Oeorgetown, only sixty shocks wero felt In four hours ARHA COVRRLU) HY LAVA. Although dttended with smaller loss of life, the eruption of La Soufrlere wns only less apparent thfin that ot Mont Pclee In Martinique. Tl)o urea covered by lav a comprises sixteen square miles, Tho fact that thaloss of life nnd damage dam-age to pioperty ln St Vincent were smaller than In Martinique Is due to the position of La Soufrlero and the smaller population of tho dlstrlrt. tho mountain overhanging sugar nncl arrowroot ar-rowroot estates nnd a. couple of thinly populited villages, whoso Inhabitants were clven warning of tho nrproachlng disaster and fled for their lives All tho villagers who rersalned wero killed. RF.LIHVINO aUFFRRHRS. The oillclals'of St. Vincent nro busy rellovlng the sufferers nnd housing tho sick nnd homeless. The problem now facing the Onvernment Is how to provide pro-vide permanently for the natives who lost houses, lands and overs thing they possessed Peasant nettlemcnts mas bo formed on the estates, the lands nt which tho Oovernment possesses tho legal machinery to approprltto, but money is needed to nsslst the settlers to build houses thereon, and to provide pro-vide them with sustnnanco during the cultivation of their lnnds. |