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Show !FURTii ERDEtAI LS OF -i : MARTINIQUE HORROR Captain of the Stcamen.5poddam" Describes the Terrible Scenes Through Which He Passed Talc Perhaps Never Had a Parallel in Stories of the Sea I Flrat of all I ho ahlpa that paaaed thrntiKh lha ahowor of aalo-a of Mont rule and reached the American mainland main-land to tell about It, the Hrltlah Ktona, bound to New York from Montevideo and Bt. Lucia, haa arrived at New York. Her captain. John Cantell, and hex paaaengnra brought lth them a thrilling atory, not only of their own ipeirlcnre In Ilia aecoud eruption of Martlnlii'a dealroynr, but of the Itoddain and her heroic captain, whom Uiny vlalled In the Ht. l.m la hoeplial. The ICIooa -cachet) HI. I.lirla on the nvonlng of May 10, ciperllng to coal I of the Hoddam. ahlrh escaped from HI. I'lnrre) UMt Tho aatrfinmn waa eniraKcd In Ka't"1" "P franmenta of tiuinan h.idlia ui pulling them away In the locker. H" dlacontlnued Ihe work to aho around. Tho Hodc-jra preaenled an awful apwtacle. tSToTlo-ikoil aa If ahe had been throat Into "oft. cIIiikIiik mud and pulled nH Mln' The mud aim k to her Ilka init and waa two foot deep on her d-tka. Awnliiga. alan-rhlona alan-rhlona and boll covere had been burned or aw- away. Tnrpaulliia, ralla, ataya, b-i'h coverg and even "Cupt. Krersan'a fuco waa burned to Ilia color (f tak wood and large patrhea o akH and flesh were burned t' hl V-r t"r' ni' there. Until Ilia ontiftTaVf.eravtd.ln bandagea. Ilia haf "l mu-iioiliii were "uc, hla eyca Acre lied on and he wna In xieii pain. When I told him who I wna tie talked a great deal, lo relieve hlir'!f. ho mid. of hta atifferlng. 1 1 1 a aald the Hodtliitn had been In M l'lerre ouly an hour when the erup-tfn erup-tfn occurred. He waa talking to an uo iit In a boat alotiKaldo when a big hlack aimll appronched the ' ship 'iroiii the laland. It wna like a black wiill. tri.Tclcd flint and wna aecom-piuiled aecom-piuiled by a thhil wave and a denfen-lug denfen-lug ronr. The un illaiippearcd liu-niedlntely. liu-niedlntely. "t'nr Freeman a.ild thut ho ahouteil lo evc-iliody to alnud clear. An lu-at.int lu-at.int later tho air wua filled with Hume and fulling butchea of Hie. The alilp win luiiiiedlntely ablaze from end lo end. ivn'l the crew and Inhorera nhotii I hretun to ruah nliout, frnntlc with pain. Aa nini'ty aa he could remember there .wore forty-two peraona aboard th hip. inly 'I of whom aurvlvcd. The alilp iled over when the tldtil wave hit h'f and nearly capatxetl. Then .ui .-it lited and the fnlllng ihower of a, (tiitlnued. "( lid. Kreeniun ran Into the chart-rootii chart-rootii but waa driven out agnln by flnriMa that came In at the port bole. Then he ruithed to the engine room tnlrshone and algualcd the engineer to I' " 1 .i ' -YX ' .'eV VA 'A v : - r " ' '. . X ..' .." '-, SORCETOWN (( . .'. yv5r). '7!wiii;;; if .FT ala.OTTE' .:-i.L-io:-r.-n'N . ?u hnd h.'H'n anvcil by hta (,nv -You can aeo tho iiiurkH of tt et aiMit the intiMlM and nnr pollstiel a.iwoik, and 1 don't think my p.i- ru me yet over their fnuln. ,N curiosity would ever luko ua UK.uit o, .ir thut torrllile place. Ilefore leaving Ht. l.mii.f Cupt. Cantell aald, "we vUlti l p,,) wreck i put on full ;.te;t.ii. J.11..0 0,1c icnponded I uiid the alilp heitiiti to move, but th-.-Hteeiliig KCir wna Jiilnuied nnd would not woik. I lu kepi Die engli.ea cxilnH I llllelld lllld lOHterll ultcrinucly. I r. ; i to (ice the piiddlea, and In ao ..oui I nearly etruck the Quelle ' ! teniner ltoniliuu. fio;u v. ho 11 ci.n of aluaul uiid tlame were rising. "Men on Ihe ftoralma werw wringing wring-ing their hnn la and ruahlng about frantically. Home of them Jumped Into In-to the aea, where they muat have dl-d Inatantly. Cupt. Freeman aald, for the water waa boiling llko a caldron. It waa like a maoa of boiling mud. Many of the Koddam'a crew had disappeared, probably swept overbonrd. and the rent went one by one until only all were left. Kvery one of them muat have died a terrible death. "After a time the captain got the Bteerlng genr working, tho ship en-wered en-wered her helm and he headed her out njjuama'a aaxmrxmeii ajem aau aa .. a.i-amwiTa lo sea. Slowly the aky cleared, and It waa poaalhle for him to ncc about Mm, Men In the red hot lava lay dying all along hla truck, tic himself, him-self, thouith he ntnyed at the wheel, wna tumble to lift hla burned unci, lllood from hla forehead kept running Into hla eyes, obscuring bla vision. He likened his escape tu the purhiiko from hell Into hcaveu. At laat be reached the Open sea, and with the help of two sailors, two engineers and the boatswain, boat-swain, succeeded In taking bla boat t ) Ht. Lucia. "During Ihn run out of the hnrbor the chief engineer died a horrible deuth. He escaped the first shock, started the engines and, not finding his men below, went on deck to look fur them. As he thrust bis head out of the hutch a mum of lava fell upon him. burning one aide of his face completely com-pletely off. "Cupt. r'reeman's ierforniunre perhaps per-haps never had a parallel In sturles of the sen." continued Cnpt. Cantell. "When the Hnddam arrived nt Ht. Lucia, the brave n.im retimed nil medical medi-cal treatment until the otliura were cured for. He will live, the doctors toll inc." I tho group. Is of yolcnnle orlRln and culminates In the vaal crater of Morne y (iaroii, which In 1K12 waa Ihe sceuo of a tremendous eruption. Millions of ton of rook and earth were hurled high Into thn air part, a molten lava, flowed down Into Ihe aea; part, shivered Into thin dust, was carried high up Into Iho clouds. For three days the awful convulsion of nature continued. The dust from tho crater so obscured the ray of tho sun and brought on a darkness so terrifying that tho few survivors believed thnt tho world had come to an end. The Icww.sAAaji jua.a. ut.hi. - e;RfjR - 107 . ' - --,..,.. ,--p.u.ii ,oooomnji raaajiaiuiaaajiraxjiwyaiviTl DIRD'S-EYE VIEW. OF PART OFiE WEST INDIES SHOWING SCENES OF VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE jj aawr CCii wii'lil Cuaot tir -J-- V ayww 9 tfT lll)lfltl. tt.t,li;r!' .aaaWk.aalK.Hjtx- 9 . rT r leiy ' w. aavita-ieAtveAitcieWi A I ; . , ; ; . . 1 Kit ra.axv.ca 'a n aiuLvjjrraei'sii Aimrx mcxerju and leave thn same night. In the harlnir new wna received of the Ht. 1'lcrre disaster, and, lying at anchor, was all that was left of Ihe Itoddam. All Ht. Lucia waa In mourning nnd Ihe people wero so distracted by the aewa from the tielKlihorlng Island thnt It waa uot until May 11 that Capt. Cantell could obtain coal and pass on hi Journey. Ht. I'lorre was passed M a diamin e of about four mile and Ml on hoard studied the land with gjaaae. "The weather wa clear and wo had a flue view," said the captain, "but U old lines of Ht. I'lorre were not reroKiilrablu. Kvorytufug wa a mass ef blurt lava, and formation of tea land Itself seemed to hsve cbangiid. WhcnVe jre about eight 1 mllra oft thn aorthern end of the Island Is-land Mont I lee began to belcb a aerond tluv. Clouds of smoke and lava shut Into too air and spread over aU tho n t, darkening the sun. Our decks In a few mlniilea wore covered cov-ered with a substance Hint looked llko sand dyed brown, which antollvd Ilku phosphorous. I "r'artlal darkness rinin upon lis, j and everybody on bonrd the ship itu j badly frightened. After tho stnrliw wa had heard and Iho sights we had j seen at Ht. Lucia we did not know j but Hint wo ourselves wero to ho bur j led under red hot lava or engulfed by another tldnl wavo, Ihouitb we weio j than tun nillea from ahorn. "'Crowd on aleam.' I whistled In j Chief Knglnevr Fnrrlah. and he need- I 4 no urging. Slowly we drew away I through a aiHTncatliiK atmosphere, j foot by foot, yard by yard, and at Inst I th aim began ahliiing. We bail ! passed outside the hailstorm of dust I and sand. When I looked at my j watch 1 found that we had been about ' an hour reaching daylight. I "Our docks wore covered two Inches j with this matter," and the captain exhibited ex-hibited a box of volcanic dust, which I Mm y nt-- ivxAxjnijrxLTCaxji her itniSu'V .t were gono. When the watchiript) due Into the lava hn found horej'" there fragment of human rciT? All that wa left of the ship wrr. ler bull, and that, being Iron, hndssv'nip.d destruction. "llearlnglal Cnpt. Freeman was at the I lot a. Mite, we railed on him. I wanted lo pi from bla own Hps inu atory of hla escape. I was unprepared for the lerrlblt sight which greeted my eye wheal entered the room. ISLAND OF ST. VINCENT, Wliaia.aseJrairtTeaataaaiaaiaaa' Impalpnble dust was carried by tho trade winds to llio islands of llarha-dos llarha-dos and Ht. Lucia and turned day Into night. The Inhabitant becamo ponlr-stricken ponlr-stricken with fear and abandoned their ordltinry vocations and devoted themselves tu prayer nnd fasting. This wus the closing period of a series of volcanic eruptions which had lasted two years, and tho direc tion of tho seismic wavo wa not tin-llko tin-llko that which devastated Martinique. The disturbance in 1812 seemed to pas under tho bed of tho ocean to Venezuela, Caraca. the capital of thut country, wa partly destroyed by an earthnunke and lu.unu penon perished. per-ished. With tho exception of the great Lisbon earthquake, Iho eruption of thn mighty mountain was tho most miles west of narha.'n and between I 8t. l.urla and the (ironndlne. From R north to south strelchci a ridge of H high, wooded hills, extending to tho V A sea on either side. Tho Soufrlere, i which I now In eruption. I In tha I . northwest. It tower 3.w0 feet above Tl Uio sea. It crnter I three miles la - ,1 elrcumferenco and 6IHI feet !' fv From the summit t!ie view on all ah f jj ; waa aiiperb. Kastward over the n I J crater formed In Ihl 2 thn Atlnrl'O 1 i waa visible through tho hill rangM 1. f westward to Iho bliio water of tie I t Carlliluan. and on the margin of fcio buy Iho rpialnt and rnrluii lnn ejy Chatenu llolalr. Traveler who If" atoml on tho highest point desi ff Ihe view of Morne tiarou a a "n'.' "V, 4 do of awe lnsplrlng grandeur, w K $ '"X, Ihe vast rorcst claniborlng over lot 1 pi nk and deep hewn glen rlgiil In J v-.KJ, northern verge, whoro, twenty mll a ' off, Ihe Islund dips under Uie hi I )' I , " waves. 1 i K : The climate of St. Vincent Is iinu I i . iittlly humid, tho average rainfall bel '''t " '. , lug seven feet annunlly. Hut the mor I A, tallty rata I low nnd tho Inhabitants V,'" , enjoy excellent heulth. Tho loll In I , Iho valley I a rich lonm, well calculated calcu-lated for thn growing of cotton and . v cocoa palm, a well as ugar cano. 'i.; i. Tho averago temperature Is 86 do- J grees Fnhretihell In the high lands. I f In thn low lands It hovers between Hn, ' , and lr. Tho Island has been noted , for the heauty of the plumage of It. ' , bird and for It rare specimens ot ' i Insect llfo. i . It Is tho home of tho giant firefly, whoso phosphorescent brilliancy 1 oi j j grent that one fly will Bhed suinclcnb , t : light by which to read a book or "7 newspaper. A dozen of theso Insect lll IlKht up a largo room, and theJ 1 ('aril. a. In Iho olden days, used them for purpose of lllmnlnntlon. I'nllko Ihe lords of the tropics fnrlher outh the lilnls of tho forest of Ht. Vincent I aro not only brilliantly feathered, but j f I " "KRA.KATQA." IN ACTION (raart AmoT06BAii iwji twwaj . j aro possessed of melodious ong. 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