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AVplIs, Sole Xorthvrest ASU 853-355 Wt.UnKton at., cor. Parle WHEN PURCHASING GARDEN HOSE Be sure you secure one of our brands GOODYEAR RUBBER CO. It. H. PEASE, President. T3 AAD 75 FIRST ST PORTLAND, OR. The Brownie No. 1, list $1.00 80c The Brownie No. 2, list $2.00 $1.60 The Panorama, list $10.00 : .$8.00 and the New Plate Camera, list $25. 00.. $20.00 PORTLAND, OREGON Rooms Single 75c to fl SO per day Roams Double $1.00 to 12.00 per day Rooms Family Sl.SO to 13.00 par &ur C T. BELCHER. Sec. and Treaa. American Plan ........... ....?1.2S, $1.50, $1.73 European Plan 00c, 75c, fl.00 87-89 First St- 4tyC& Portland, Or. OREGON Ice Cream 1 !'! I M-H-H-I I-I2IIII IIII II Ifr AND IRON FENCING Of all kinds. . Poultry Netting GIT OF DEATH Appearance of St Pierre After the Eruption. GHASTLY STREET SCENES Thirty Thousand Corpses Are Strewn About. CHARRED AND UNRECOGNIZABLE Only Heapi of Ashen and Blocks of Stone Show Where the Build ings of the City Once Stood. Careful Inspection showed that the Aery streanfwhlch so completely de destroyed St. Pierre must have been composed of poisonous gases, which In stantly suffocated eVery one Who in haled them, and of other gases burn ins furiously, for nearly all the vic tims had their hands cohering their mouths, pr were In some attitude show ing that they had sought relief from suffocation- AH the bodies were car bonized or roasted. Piles of dead In the vicinity of the site of the cathedral tell a story of the attempt to find sanctuary and ref uge In the great structure of worship. Men and women, panic-stricken at the cataclysm, turned In the moment of their despair to the cathedral, and were apparently o ercome before they could reach its doors. ! -0- FORT DE FRANCE, Martinique, May 12. It now 'seems to be generally admitted that about 30,000 persons lost their lives as a result of the outbreak of the Mount Pelee volcano at St. Pierre Thursday last. Careful investigation by competent government officials shows that the earlier reports of the Associated Press were ac curate. Briefly put, last Thursday morn- ling Che city of "St. Pierre disappeared within ID minutes. In a whirling fire vomit from Mount. Peloe 30,000 persons were instantly and horribly killed and the volcano, whose ancient crater for more than 30 years had been occupied by a quiet lake In which picnic parties bathed, suddenly discharged a torrent of flery mud, which rolled toward the sea engulfing everything before it. The last cabled communication was broken' and the doomed city was Isolated from the world. The American Consul at Guadeloupe, Louis H. Ayme, has reached the desolate spot where St. Pierre stood and confirms the awful story in all its essential de tails. From an Interview with Colonel Ayme, who Is a trained American news paper man, a correspondent of the Asso ciated Press, learned the following facts: Thursday morning the inhabitants of the city awoke to find heavy clouds shrouding the Mount Pelee crater. All day Wednesday horrible denotations had been heard. These were echoed from St. Thomas on the north to Barbadoes on the south. The cannonading ceased Wednes- day night and fine ashes fell like rain on I OU xcwe. J.UU luiuuiuiuui nc aii"iu- ed, but Governor Mguttet, who had ar rived at' St. Pierre the evening before, did everything possible to allay the panic. The British steamer Roralma reached St. Pierre Thursday with 10 passengers, among whom were Mrs. Stokes and her three children and Mrs. H. J. Ince. They were watching the rain of the ashes, 'when a frightful roar and terrific electric discharge, a tornado of fire, mud and steam swept down from the crater over the town and bay, sweeping all before it and destroying the fleet of vessels at anchor off the shore. There the account of the catastrophe, so far as obtainable, ceases. Thirty Thousand. Corpses. Thirty thousand corpses are strewn about, burled In the ruins of St. Pierre, or else floating, gnawed by sharks. In the surrounding seas. Twenty-eight charred, half dead, human beings" were brought here. Sixteen of them are al ready dead and only four of the number are expected to recover. The Associated Press steamer chartered 1n Guadeloupe neared Martinique at 6:30 In the morning. The island, with Its low hills, was hidden behind a huge veil of violet colored haze. Enormous quantities of the wreckage of large and small ships and houses strewed the surface of the eea. Huge trees and too often bodies with flocks of sea gulls soaring above, and hideous sharks fighting about them, were floating here and there.. From behind the volcanic veil came blasts of hot wind, mingled with others Ice cold. At Le Preoheur, five miles north of St, Pierre, canoes with "men, and women, frantic to get away, begged for a passage on the steamer. . The whole north end of the Island was covered with a silver coating of ashes resembling dirty snow. Furious blasts of fire, ashes and mud swept over the steamer, but finally St Pierre was reach ed. The City of St. Pierre stretched nearly two miles along the water front and half a mile back to a cliff at the base of the volcano. The houses of the richer French families were built of stone. The stlll-smoklng- volcano towered above the ash covered hills. The ruins were burning in many places, and frightful odors of burned flesh filled the air. Streets Were Obliterated. With great difficulty a landing was ef fected. Not one house was left Intact. J Viscid .heaps of mud of brighter ashes or piles cf volcanic stones were seen on every side. The streets could hardly be traced. Here and there amid the ruin were heap9 of corpses. Almost all the faces were downward. In one corner 22 bodies of men, women and children were mingled In one awful mass, arms and legs protruding as the helpless being fell in the last struggles of death's agony. Through the middle of the old Place Bentlt ran a tiny stream, the remains of the river. Great trees with roots upward and scorched by fire were strewn In every direction. Huge' blocks and still hot stones were scattered about. From under one large stone the arm of a white woman protruded. Most notable was the utter silence and the awful, over powering stench from the thousands of dead. A. B. Austen, manager of the Colonial Bank of Barbadoes landed at St,Pierre with a party from, the British Royal Mall steamer Solent. He found the bank clock stopped at some minutes before 8 o'clock. A horse and buggy and a policeman were J In a dead group at the door. Lund la Changing:. Nearly 4000 of the refugees from the vicinity of the village of Le Precheur, a suburban village north of St. Pierre, were rescued by the French cruiser Suchet and the cable repair ship Pouyer-Quertler and were brought here. As a result of his inspection, the commander of the Suchet reports that crevices and valleys are con stantly forming In the northern portion of the island, where the land la In. a state of perpetual change. Fortunately that part of the country was evacuated in good time by the Inhabitants, who fled to Fort de France. The dearth of provisions is beginning to be felt throughout the Island.. Numerous families are completely ruined and even shelterless, while the mearts at the dis posal of the authorities are much too in adequate to cope with the distress. Communication is practically cut off from all the surrounding islands, except by stray vessels, which are seized upon by the inhabitants to flee from Martin ique. Rcf agree Are Djinp. The refugees had as a rule assembled at Le Carbet and Case Pllote, not far from St. Pierre, and It Is reported over 100 of them have died since the fearful stream of lava poured down Mount Pelee. Several steamers. Including the. vessel Rubls, started from here yesterday for St. Pierre. They had on board a government delegate, a number, of gendarmes, a at tachment of regular infantry and several priests. The vessel also carried a quantity of firewood, petroleum and quicklime for use in the cremation of the bodies of the victims of the terrible volcanic outbreak of Thursday last. Large quantities of disinfectants-end stocks of clothing for the refugees also were shipped to St. Pirrre. At the 'request of S. A. McAllister, United States Consul at Barbadoes, Cap tain Davis and tbi Solent were placed at his disposal" -by Vthe t Barbadoes Govern? ment The Solent arrived at about the same time as the Associated Press steam er and brought to St. Pierre the Colo nial Secretary, two civil doctors, two military officers, and Dr. V7. E. Aughln baugh, of Washington, as well as a Cor poral and four hospital orderlies, three trained nurses, and a full field hospital outfit. The Barbadoes Government also sent 700 barrels of provisions, one ton of ice and a full supply of medicine. These were useful, but the dead needed only quick burial. Death on the Ilornima. The stories of the survivors added to the awful details of the particularly har rowing account of the loss of the British steamer Roralma. C. C. Evans, of Montreal, and John G. Morris, of New York, who are now at the military hospital of Fort de France, say the vessel arrived at 6 o'clock. As eight bells was Btruck, a frightful ex plosion was heard up the mountain. The cloud of fire, toppling and roaring, swept with, lightning speed down the moun tain and over the town and bay The Roralma was nearly gunk and caught Are at once. "I never can forget the horrid, flery; choking whirlwind which enveloped us," said Mr. Evans. "Mr. Morris and I rushed below. We are not very badly burned, not so bad as most of them. When the Are came we were going to our posts (we are engineers) to weigh an chor and get out When we came up we found the ship afire aft and fought it for ward until 3 o'clock, when the Suchet came to our rescue. We 'were then build ing a raft" Ben Benson, the carpenter of the Ro ralma, said: "I was on deck amidships when I heard the explosion. The Captain ordered me to take up the anchor. I got to the wind lass, but when the Ore came I went Into the forecastle and got my duds. When I came out I talked with Captain Mug gah, Mr. Scott, the flrst officer, and others. They had been on the bridge. The captain was horribly burned. He had Inhaled flames and wanted to jump into the sea. I tried to make him take a life-preserver. The captain, who was undressed. Jumped overboard and hung onto a line for awhile, then he disap peared." Gus Llnder, the quartermaster of -the steamer, who Is horribly burned, and can hardly talk, confirmed this. Francisco Angelo. who speaks poor English, vividly described the onrush of the fire. He says the captain was a very brave man, too brave to be burned to death. Angelo further asserted that the storm of fire lasted not more than five minutes. Joseph Breckels, a seaman, 15 years old. Is so frightfully burned that he can not live, having inhaled flames. Other men of the Roralma who were rescued are Salvador Acollo and Joseph Suslno. Described the Fire Cyclone. From the Italian ship Teresa Lovlco several men were saved, but they "are In a frightful state, except Jean Louts Pru dent of St Pierre. Although on deck and unprotected, ,he was little burned. Prudent says there was flrst an awful noise of explosion and then, right away, a cyclone of smoke and fire, but such was the poisonous, ch'oking nature of the smoke, tha It burned worse than the fire. When It struck the people they fell dead. The cyclone of gas tore the masts out of ships, blew others up and sunk some m of them. Soon afterward r (Concluded on. Second Page.) TELL OF '05 FAIR Portland Men Address Meet ing at Baker City. GREAT ENTHUSIASM PREVAILS Mayor- Authorized to flfame a Com mittee to Solicit Subscriptions to Stock Miners Will Prepare BlET. Exhibit. BAKER CITY, Or., May 12. A meeting In the Interest of the Lewis and Clark Exposition was held in the opera-house in this city this evening. Mayor R. D. THEY HAVE AN PHILIPPINES OR SCUTTLE? Carter presided. A committee represent ing the exposition, consisting of Mayor H. S. Rone, F. E. Beach, president of the Board of Trade; A. J. Capron, of the Chamber of Commerce, and J. M. Long, City Attorney, all of Portland, were pres ent Each, member of the committee ad dressed the meeting. Messrs. Long and Capron spoke at length, explaining the object and purpose of the exposition. Mayor Carter assured the gentlemen from Portland that Baker City and Baker County, and all of Eastern Oregon would most heartily second the movement to make the Lewis and Clark Exposition a success. Frtd Mellls, who had charge of the mineral exhibit of Oregon at the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo, last year, said that of 8,000.000 people who visited tho exposition, the greater portion saw the Oregon exhibit, and many thousands said It was their Intention to attend the Lewis and Clark Exposition. Addresses favoring the exposition were made by W. S. Levins secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; O. L. Miller and W. J. Lachner. Mayor Carter was authorized to appoint a committee, to be composed of leading citizens of the city and county, to secure subscriptions to the capital stock of the exposition. Several gentlemen of means have already expressed their will ingness to subscribe liberally to the cap ital stock. In addition to the stock sub scriptions, it is the purpose of the mining men to prepare and place on exhibition the largest and most elaborate mineral exhibit ever shown at any fair or expo sition. The mineral exhibit from, this part of the state will consist in the main of gold and copper ores. THE DEATH ROLL. Sliter of C. P. Huntington. NEW YORK. May 12. Mrs. Mansfield Lovell Hlllhouse, eldest sister qf the late Collls P. Huntington, Is dead at the home of Mrs. Huntington in this city. She came to New York about three months J ago from New Brunswick, N. J her home, to spend a few months at the Hun tington house. A month after she arrived here she was taken 111 and declined grad ually. X. Meyers. .BERLIN, May 13. L Meyers, a direc tor of the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, died at Wiesbaden to day. Coal Shortage at Reading:. READING. Pa., May 12. The coal short age Is already apparent here. Coal deal- a0oaQ iiottt. ers were besieged all of Sunday by cus tomer?, and they say that they have more oiders than they can fill In a month, even v-un me mines rupmng. xjesiuea mc Reading main line coal train crews, the strike will affect many of the shifting crews all along the line. STEEL CASTING COMBINE. Will Control One-Fourth of the Pro duction of the Country. CHESTER, Pa.. May 12. Additional par ticular? concerning tne new combination of steel-casting plants, which Is to be formed with the American Steel Casting Company, whose principal plant and of fices are In this city, as a nucleus, have developed fday. The new corporation will be known as the American Steel Foundries, and has as Its principal under writers, J. G. Gary, Charles M. Schwab, of the United States Steel Corporation; J. W. Gates and General Charles G. Miller, of Franklin. Pa. The new company will control about one-fourth of the production of steel castings In the country. The companies to be included are the American Steel Casting Company, the Sbackle-Har-iison & Howard and American Steel F.oundry. St. Louis; Sargent & Co.. Chl- --f t EYE ON OREGON. cago; Benjamin Thayer & Co., Newark, N. J.; Franklin Steel "Casting Company, Franklin, Pa., "and Reliance Foundry Pittsburg. C0NTENTS vOF TODAY'S PAPER. Martinique Disaster. Appearance of St. Pierre after the eruption Page 1. Thirty thousand corpses are strewn' throughout tho city. Page 1. The face of the northern part of the Island, Is constantly changing. Page 1. Steps taken by the departments at Washington to relieve the sufferers. Pace 3. Congress. The House and Senate passed a bill appropri ating S20O.00O for West Indian sufferers. Page 2. The President in a message recommended an appropriation of $300,000. Page 2. Foraker led the Philippine debate In the Sen ate. Page 2. Foreign, Particulars of the Paris airship accident. Page 3. Spain Is preparing for the coronation of King Alphonso. Page 3. The conference committee of the Danish Par liament Is considering the cession treaty Page 3. Domestic. Twenty persons were kljled and 200 injured at a Are and explosion near Pittsburg. Page 1. The tie-up In the anthracite region Is com plete. Page C. Oans knocked out Erne at Fort Erie. Page 5. Pacific Coast. Enthusiastic meeting at Baker City to discuss IOCS' Fair. Page 1. Prominent Moscow married man and young woman take poison and die together. Page 4. Furnlsh's visit to Polk County awakens great enthusiasm and Increases his strength. Page 4. "Whitman County, "Washington, farmers call meeting to learn what legislative candidates will fight railroad lobby. Page 4. Marine and Commercial. Many declines In stocks, due principally to money situation. Page 13. Bulls cause advance In wheat in the East. Page 13. Decline in potatoes aad advance In mohair and hops. Page 13. Large fleet of Portland grain ships reach Queenstown and Falmouth. Page 12. t)ld Portland-Oriental liner Monmouthshire rescues St. Pierre victims. Page 8. Local row between rival sailor boarding-house men has been settled. Page 12. Many Portland steamboat men have departed for the Tukon. Page 12. Portland and Vicinity. Democrats lose confidence in their prospects of success. Page 10. Bellboy Savage tells his story In Judge Fra- zkr'B court Page 8. Police And no clew to Murderer James 'Will iams. Page 14. aCIww -rj'-via C T'iTr N jKfci JT' f ff Terrible Explosion Near Pittsburg. SCORE OF LIVES WERE LOST Two Hundred Persons Injured and Many Will Die. THE VICTIMS WERE 0N-L00KERS Torrent of Flames Burst Upon & Greet Crowd of People Wutch- ingr a Darning Train of Cars. A series of naphtha explosion In a railroad yard In a Pittsburg suburb cost a score of lives and Injured about 200 persons, 75 per cent of whom, ac cording to physicians, will die. Specta tators at a tire pressed too close, and when three cars of the stuff exploded there was no escape for them. Men, women and children were wrapped in flames and fatally burned. Before the exploIon many were rendered uncon scious by the extreme heat and gas eous fumes, and were being carried away when, the torrent of Are burst upon them. A stream of the escaping naphtha caused an exDlosion at a point a mile and a halt awa. wrecking three houses and injuring many persons. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 12. The Sheridan yard of the Pan Handle Railroad was the scene this evening of the, most disastrous explosion and fire known in this section for many years. A score of lives Tvere lost and about 2C0 persons were so badly burned that, according to the Judgment of physicians in attendance, 75 per cent of them will die from the effects of their In juries. The Dead. Ibo, dead are: 4 AITOERT M'KEAN, brakeman, Sheri dan. , , JOHN SWAIN, brakeman. Sheridan. Unknown boy, died on way to Allegheny General Hospital. H. F. SM1THLEY, Uhrichsvllle, O. . FINNBRTY, Sistervllle. Va. CHARLES HERTIG, Chestnut Mines. W. W, TAYLOR, Millers Station. G. E. HUNTER, 2S years old, leaves widow and live children. Sheridan. . W. E. WRIGHT, 26 years old, Sheridan. DALLAS BORT. 28 years old, Sheridan (all died at Mercy Hospital.) Unknown white man, about 40 years old. . DOUDS, died at Mercy Hospital. DAVID SMITH, aged nine years. Sheri dan, died at Allegheny General Hospital. JAMES KKENAN, aged 20, Carnegie. PASCOE MADER. Italian section hand. Unknown boy, aged 10. .W. E. RESI, Dorencetown, Luzerno County. TONY LEE. laborer, aged 30. LAWRENCE KEENAN, yardmaster's clerk, Carnegie. The Injured. Partial list of the seriously Injured: Albert Haertlg, aged 12; Carl Eatings, Tipton, Tenn.; Henry Denselne, Alle gheny; Sadie Seymour, 23; Flck Conldi, grocer, Cecil, Pa.; Clyde Grlnnage, 24; Roy Guthrldge, 9; Cljde Fair, 22; Charles Keenan, 14; W. H. Enoch, Pittsburg, frac tured skill, will die; Frank Doers, Will iam Henderson, 22; Elliott Borough; Hugh Hendenson, 25; J-. E. Hanna, BrldgevIHe; J. J. Wallace, Trevascan; James Calla han, Elliott Borough; Albert Verry, 15, Sheridan, burned about body. Inhaled fumes, will die; Mrs. Julia Ansell, 3S, Sherldaa; Frank Culture. 20, Carnegie; Matthew Moreland, 25, badly burned, lll probably die. The many others who were Injured live in all parts of Allegheny County, and their names cannot be secured tonight. Cause of the Explosion. The accident happened In the railroad yards at Sheridan, where the Panhandle Railroad makes a turn near Cork Run. Banked In by two high hills, hundreds 6f people were caught. In the shitting necessary to make up a train, live tank cars, two of them filled with refined pe troleum and two with naphtha, were switched wlth too much force, and one of the care of' naphtha was broken. In stantly the Inflammable bl-product poured out in a stream. The trainmen, teeing that one of the cars was damaged, start ed to pull them out of the way. As the damaged car passed a switch light tho dripping naphtha caught on the light flame, and almost Instantly an explosion followed. The explosion sent showers of burning naphtha over the freight station near at hand, and also enveloped a number of carloads of coke and lumber that were close by, and In a moment all were blaz ing. Fifteen minutes after the first ex plosion the two cars of refined petroleum that had been damaged by the bursting of the tank of naphtha and were leaking blew up with a terrific report. No ono was Injured by this, however. The noise, smoke and flames drew a great crowd to the scene. Troops of children ran from their play to see the fire. The yards at Sheridan lie in a narrow valley. On the south side of the yard Is a rounded hill, bare of trees. On the other side of the yards' a hill fully 200 feet high riees sheer above the round house. In less than 15 minutes both these hills were black with men, women and children, who were eagerly watching the flames in the cut below. Suddenly a third explosion was heard, muffled, this time as though from a dis tance and eventually coming from tno mouth of the valley on the Ohio River. Between the time when the first tank of naphtha was damaged in switching and sprung- u leak and the moment when it exploded enough of the liquid had es caped to work its way into the fewer that empties into the Ohio River near the mouth of Cork Run. Burning oil. too. H , iConcluded on Second Page.) I I HMMMrtHMMi