Show PELEE AND AGAIN IN ERUPTION english scientists were hemmed in by a river of hot mud pari july 12 1 2 the colonial ministry has issued the following A fresh eruption of mont martinique ti occurred during the morning of july 11 it was quite as violent as the one of the previous day and was marked by loud detonations deto nations followed by showers of tono and cinders which fell on the communes of basse pointe llauge and ponds the population remained calm anero was no loss of life the scientific mission has arrived at fort de france kingstown st vincent thursday july 10 the english scientific commission headed by drs anderson and flatt who after investigating the various phenomena connected with the eruption of the here left on the fourth for england by way of the west indian ports noticed that alie crater was seemingly quiet last night however three distinct detonations deto nations were heard here and at barbadoes and an immense cloud of steam issued from the this phenomenon was pro ceded by earthquakes during the past three days which were felt all over the colony the commissioners had a narrow escape during oiin of thir visits to the irater they passed over a lava led on the morning of june 14 in fair weather and ascended alie mountain oa the return journey made during a gale of wind and a downfall of rain jets of etcar and mud issued all around them from in the mountain walking on a ridge they saw on cither side to a depth of a thousand feet masses of boiling mud throwing up jets to a height of feet on reaching the found themselves in an awful scientists predicament what was three hours previously a dry ravine over which they walked was then a stream of hot mud running with tremendous force in order to cross stream they constructed a bridge only a few inches wide laid from bank to bark across the narrowest arts of the stream and eventually crossed since the eruption after every shower of lava the beds to windward and leeward of the volcanic district eject mud and steam some times hundreds of feet high and dust falls heavily in and near this district |