| Show could see mont belee pelee r belching fire yew york may 26 the sloop which under command of kaptain lake carried supplies provided by the government for the sufferers in martinique lias returned here says a new york herald dispatch from st B W I 1 the brew of the dauntless became frightened on the voyage refused to go on and deserted alie sloop at dominica this delayed the relief expedition but the dauntless obtained a new crew a dominica and finally went on her destination ti on alie passage southward captain lake says mont belee pelee mas seen blazing grandly at intervals of about a quarter of an hour its eruptions were accompanied compa nied ly awful sounds deep thunder when the dauntless passed st pierro on alie voyage northward the cites ruins were burning fiercely tho wand has been swept by a feir ul thunderstorm yew york may 28 another steamship the coya which passed through clouds of volcanic dust from mont has arrived in port one of her officers said fe fifty miles from st lucia and just couth of we passed on the evening of the eidth a large dead ground which hundreds of sharks were hovering the coya was one hour passing rth rough alie wreckage and smoke off st dipierre but the flashes of alre could be been when we were sixty milea away ENVELOPED IN DARKNESS kingston of st vincent B W I 1 saturday may 21 another eruption the night of sunday may jtb caused a greater fall of ashes and and more consternation at cha lean belair mand of st vincent than resulted from the eruption of may ath dortly after the appearance of a cloud on may which was belched ironi alie mountain egyptian darkness enveloped the village of chateau belair the inhabitants rent the air with shrieks and groped against the banks of the road leading to cumberland in their efforts to flee from the threatened danger but the exodus from chateau belair continued all night detonations Deto nations and smoke and from the volcano continued the next day may and the people still tried to leave chateau belair for kingston and other towns A heavy rainfall occurred at chateau the the first in alie district for two months and the streets huts and shops etro flooded As alie volcanic eruptions dimin lulled after the some thirty of the returned but they are still apprehensive kingstown Kingi town ii longing for rain the heat and dryness hero arc unprecedented there M no hope for the rc eus citation of the country for years to come the canal that supplies water to that country for domestic or manufacturing purposes has dried up and the district ii desolated alie government is treating for the purchase of an estate upon which to settle the refugees and carpenters arc engaged in erecting huts on safe locations to relieve the congestion in kingston in his official report to the french government on tho entire martinique disaster gov of martinique estimates the dead there at mont belee pelee was comparatively quiet yesterday friday today the volcano belched forth a torrent of lava and mud which rushed down the northern eloper of the mountain and swept away what was left of the town of basso new fissures have opened in the side of the mountain |
