I I he Oldest and Most fioliabje, Published in th« Greatest Valley of Eastern Oregon. y The Best Advertising Medium. Valley Items VOL. 18. II. I>. Muln^xrr. I’roprlH i Ti»<- \* I h J huu », nd If or unj BURNS. OREGON. SATURDAY. MAY 17. 1902. •• I .50 f’r r Y far. hi« Month» iñtrntii. IT RAINED FIRE NO. 25. nnd gljwing cinders rushing with j arc barred by fire, The closest1 nothing but save our ship. When terrific rapidity over the town and possible observation showed houses 1 last saw the Roraima she was set [sirt, completely und in an instant still blazing and streets strewn tlinp down astern. I nis was about enve.oping the former in a sheet of with charred bodies. It is certain 10 o’clock in the morning. When ilaiue and raining fire on board, that the whole town and neighbor the Roddam was safclv out of th« City of Kt. Pierre j 'I he agent had just time to climb ing country for miles is utterly de harbor of St. Pierre and its desola DcNtroycd. j on board when his boat di.appe.lc- stroyed. ami it is feared here that tions and horrors, I made for St. ed. Several of the crew of the few. if anv. of the inhabitants Lucia. Arriving here and when * Rodd tm wi re quickly »torched to ceca p<<l. the ship was safe. 1 mustered tke The recent < artlniuakes ocauring death. By superhauian efforts, i The volcano of the Island of St, survivors, as well as 1 win able, Hardware of Every Description. in the Lesser Antilles, followed bv having steam up, the cable was i Vincent has burst out in sympa and searched for the dead and in the eruption of Mount I’elcc, near slipped and the steamer backed thetic eruption. A steamer which jured. Bl U NS okegon . Some I found in the saloon, where St. I’icrre, on the Island of Marti away from the shore, and nine returned from there l ist night re hours Imcr managed to reach Cas ports that the northern third of they bad vainly «ought for safetv, nique, which began early last week, tries. Ten of the Roddam’s men the islarnl was in Hames and cut but the cabins were full of burning and which resulted in the complete were lying dead, contorted and <4T from ¡i-sistancr by a Continuous embers that had blown in through I destruction of the old town of St. burned out of human semblance, stream of burning lava, ashes fall- the port holes. Through these th« I'icrre, Thursday morning, Muy 8, owing to the black cinders which . mg in heavy showers as far as 150 tire swept us through funnel«, and is one of the greatest disasters of covered the ship’s decks to a depth miles away. burned the victims where they lav modern limes. In all. ]>rol>alilv of six inches. Two mote of the' or stood, leavipg a circular imprint creoecQcooteooücoocto®ow %tQOoc60G«çoGocooo::<oceo some-Ill.lMXI |>eople were annihilat crow have since died. of scorched and burned llcsh. I c J< HIX \V BIGGS. I’reubh'tit, II.< LEVENS, o Two of tin; survivors of the crew ed by this catastrophe. The story brought 10 on deck who were thus <• E I. Ht Y. < ahí * tur. Vico Prcaiiieut. > as related by the ¿¡»patches is as were loud in their praise of the’ burned. Two of them were dead. «♦ a heroic conduct of the c.iotain in, follows: The others survived, although in u o o Cnstries, St Lucia. British West steering their vessel away from dreadful state or torture from their • Vomited I'lre. Viipoe and sul o destruction with his bands, which 1 Indies, May 10 — Mount I'elec. a burns. Their screams of agony J phur—i old liy tin Eye Wit ( 1 ncor|H*rat<><! ) were badly burned by the rain of volcanic mountain some HI mile« were lacartrending. ness. I Bl'ltN'S, — - — OttEGON. north ol St. 1’ierr«, the commercial fire which kept falling on the ship i Out of a total of 23 on board the • capital of Martinique, is the moun for miles after she got under w ay. Roddam, which includes th« cap n V Bcyot.d burns all over his body, tain which made a faint show of tain ami the crew, ID are dead, and o o St. Lucia, B. W. I , May IL— several are in th« hospital. M v first the captain is safe, as is also the eruption 60 years ago A General Sinking Business Transacted. o o ‘f the British and second mates, my.chief engi- Muv 3 last it commenced to throw ship’s agent, though lie is badly Captain Freeman, < of Directora W. V. King, I S G»-er, Geo. Frv, \V. E. Triadi. e t o scorched. out den»« clouds of smoke. At i steamship Roddam, a survivor of neer, a id my supercargo, <'ampbell .1. C. Welcome. o to M. Plissino is believed her« to be the terrible catastrophe at St. Pierre, i by name, were killed. inidnight the sunn1 dav. Hanies, ac 2eco«ooet904oo6ic %.c)o«o3t'dì«ooee’ìuacj eccito the onn survivor uf the 40,000 in Martinique, gives the following ac companied by rumbling noises The ship was covered from stem habitants of the town, ami all (lie count of liis experiences ; lighted the sky over an immense to stern with tons of powdered lava. !.•<!<• Hirer lory. PROFESSIONAL CARDS area, causing wi lespread terror. shipping of the port has been ut "The steamer Roddam. of which which retained its heat for hours Brío.» 1.OI1UU No. 70. K of r May I hot ashes covered the whole terly destroyed, tl.c West Indian A I am captain, left St. Lucia _____ at ___ _ aI*‘(,r *l had fallen. . In many cases mid- A Mente eierv Thuradav night II M.MVt.I.KN, city quarter of St. Pierre an inch Panama Telegraph Company's re | uiglit of May 7, and was off St. J w»s uu m. ‘ . *t ”••• pracltcally incandescent, and F M Jordan. C <’ pairing vessel going first, then the Pierre, Martinique, at 6 o’ • clock thich, and made Mount Pelee in- • • on | | to .move about the deck in this Motheralicad , K •! li 8. Quebec liner Rouiaima. Captain the morning of the Sth. I 1 noticed' burning n't«* 'T»s tot ou r di:l.- PliOTOGItAI IIEP I visible. | At noon. May .">, a stream of Muggah. of the latter, waved his that the volcano, Mont Pelce. wag cult, but absolutely perilcne. 1 am Itl’RNS i'll AFTER, ÁO «U. <> E s tturns, erej«u. M-vt« mtou I and foii'lll Moiidav burning lava rush'd -IKK! feet hand iu farewell to the Roddam as «moking, and crept slowly in to. only now able.tc begin thoroughly each mouth in Maa<m:e ti-all, Vorztly Main St—opposite Bank down the mountain side, following his vessel sank with u terrific ex ward the bay, finding there, among to clear anil searchthc ship for anv b.ildinz Mrs M »ggto lx*v«n., \V. M the dry bed uf a torrent and reach plosion. others, the styamers Rorpima, >. the __ damage done bv llf*volcanic rain Mr« E:ni<« Thomp.on. Sec. The British Roval Mail steamer telegr.q ph repair steamer' Grappler «n<l to s4e if then ar.e any corjises ing the seti. five uiilee from the |y| AKSDFN 4 UKAI'.V inoiintaiii, in three minutes. In its Esk, which called off Martinique at and lour sailing vessels, A wall of ’n out«of-the-iMiy places. Fur in BVKNS IZltMlF, NO »7, A F. .« A M. L. Maradeti. Jahn w Utary. rush the fiery flood swept from its 10 o’clock last night, reported tire swept over the town and the stance, this morning I found one Ma-'ta Salnr ltv on or hcf uà full munti. <4 idilivti brothers fraternally iioiii-l, iam «C Au r.jrnns. plantations, bui’dirig«, factories ' standing off shore live miles, sound bay. The Roddntn was struck body i > the peak of the foiecastle. i E Kiriywo. W. M. F. S. Uicder, Burns, Oregon. cattle and human beings over a ing her whistle ami sending up broadside by the burning mass. T.' body was horribly burned, ami Mecv. rockets. She received no answer, The shock to the ship wasterribl breadth of about hall a mile. the sailor had evidently crept in (lllice at r<-«idencc. 'Phone 20. The whole sea front was blazing 1 nearly capsizing her. 1 went to there in his agony to die. At the rear of the mouth of the IH KNS LOlHiE. NO iS. A. O f. U Riviere Blanche stood the large for mile«, 'The Esk tent a boat anchorage between 7 and S o'clock, fin the arrival of the Roddam nt Mert« .it Brown fiait rv*rv Eru’av »•>•- ning Vcitinv tirotlirra (ratrriiallv in dp ; . • i r.i Guerin sugar factory, one of the ashore, but it could not land on St. Lucia, the ship presented an and hardly had 1 moored when the viati. Ttu» Sauer«, W. M t'iia« N. finest in the island. It is now account of the terrific tire, which J * B«s halten Biff« side of the valcano opened out with appalling appeurauce. Dead and ('••tirana, ktcenler. was accompanied by loud ex- completely entombed in lava, The Affarne ye-at-Law. a terrible explosion. Hearing the calcined bodies lay about the deck, plosions, Not a living soul au- tall chimucy alone is visible One u KltNI’Y LODGE. NO. 77, I O. O F. ill KSS. O|;K(.()\, awful report cf the explosion, and which was also crowded with in Meet, every Salnniav evening, li'own'• hundred and fifty persons are esti peared ashore after the boat had seeing the great wall of flumes ap jured. helpless and suffering jieo- hall Vi.itinc brothera (ratcrnallv in- onice in Bank building, and mated to have perished there, in waited f°r two hours. _ Fire ___ vited Franko Jacksou, N.G. , proaching the steamer, those on ple. Prompt assistance was ren ashes fell al! over the steamer. C.G. Rntith, Hecretarv. cluding the owner’s son. dered to the injured bv the author deck sought shelter wherever it was In the afternoon a French coast As the lava rushed into the sea,: Y^ tiiAM<>a ni/.uk.KAi.i> possible, jumping into the cabin, ities here, aud ruv poor, tortuied h i r i ii;< i . e si> i<>>. women hi the latter receded 300 t'ect all along ing steamer arrived here from men were taken to the hospitals. the forecastle and even into the Woodcraft. M.et«'Jud «tvl 4th T ihm ihnriikiH Williams, m FitaccraM, Fort de France seeking assistance, The «lead were buried, and I had the west coast. Returning with d«\ at Brown'a halt. Mr.. TiHi« Jordan. hold. Attorney at I aw. Notary Public. greater strength, a big wave cover as all the country was burned up. Mr», lune Whiting Guardian. omitted to mention that out of 21 I was in the chartroom, but the Clerk. /.au , Nuiari il ami Ural Ettatt ed the whole sea front of St Pierre, the stock was dying, all the planta- black laborers that I brought from burning embers were borne so Practice. Cintre li Announcements. but did little damage ashore or tions were eja-red, the countrv Grenada to help in stevedoring, swiftly that they were swept in Burns. Oregon. allo it. people were ilocking into the towns only six -survived. Meat of the Sunday School at Harney the through the door and portholes suf mice in old Masonic building Terrible detonations, heard linn- and famine was feared. The steam- others threw tticirwselves overboard first Sunday of each month at !<• focating and scorching me badly. 1 dieds of mile« northward, followed vr was loaded with food of all sorts to escape a dreadful fate: but they On the second, o’clock, A M. was terribly burned by those em at short, i irregular intervals and an 1 was sent back to Martinique met a worse one. for it is the actual third and fourth Sundays of each bers about the face and hands, but continued at night, In the intense at 7 P- M- The captain of this fact that tike water crounff tke ship p M JORL'AX. month at 3 o’clock P. M Preach- managed to reach the deck. As vessel reported that some 30 per was literally at boiling bent. darkneas the electric lights failed ing service« every eeeond Sunday soon as it was possible when there. Practical l.'inil Surveyor. sons left St. Pierre by theti o ’ clock The escape of my vessel was hut the town was lit up by lurid at S P M 1 mustered the few survivors who Ilurtiai. Orrpon, flashes of flame from the mountain. boat Thursday morning for Fort de miraculous. Tne woodwork i f th» seemed able tn move, ordered them The terror stricken inhabitants France, and consequently were P’.ontujued on Fourth page. Clubbing rat a givm with any to slip the anchor, leaped fcr the rushed for the hills in their night saved. pajxT or |»rrio<lical pubhabfil in g w Mtn.ER, bridge «ed rang the engine for full All attempts to get to St. Pierre clothes, screaming, shouting and the Vtilled Staten. speed astern. The second and third ■ DO YOU GET U? wailing, mad with terror. engineer and a fireman were o". .Votary Public ami Conveyancer, VÜTH _______ A LAz’IE BACK ? The Plissono family escaped to 50 YEARS’ . watch below, and so escaped injury. $1:3 KEWA33 Î1M. I St. Lucia in a small steamer. experience ! They did their part in the aOempi ziiaty Trouble’Makes You Mteerablc. Peed*,, Etc., oorrcttly made. The readers of this paper will be Office al Jtar« ixtirna. Oreçnn. Thirty five persons, mostly women • to escape, but the men on deck . . , , , . , AlfaOri cvervbod-z who raau the news- and children, arrived here in the pleased to learn that there is at could not work the steering, because u know oi the wonderful I forenoon of the Gth and furnished least one dreaded disease that I sci • cures r.’dtdo by Ci. it was jammed by the debris from * Kilmer’s S.vamp-Root, nas been Deen amc able to cure in i: all the volcano. We accordingly went H. VOLP, A. M , M. D. the above detail«. The men re- ence has the great kidney, liver TRADE IVI ARRI» maiued in Martinique. ; it« stages and that is Catarrh. and bladder remed;. Or. SIGN ahead and astern until the gear was It is the grout rne ii- C ofvrigmts Ac. The same afternoon, later, tele- Hall s Catarrh Cure is the only free, but in this running backward Physician and Surgeon. Antiin« ••ndlnff a ukaceh and daaerlptlon dio » dal triumph cf t "ni::?.- «jtitcklv Macavtain our «»vintoli freo whaltovr au graphic communications was in-j positive cure now known to the tj|J> teentb contur-; - in«vnfHii «• pmbMhly vauvtfablo. <'oniwiuiiiCR and forward it was two hours after H":',-covered *i:er jeu: . ci (tona t*fii<rtly «Mi1<k»nU«l. Handbixik on l’nient » terrupted with both the Islands of medical fraternity. Catarrh being the lirst shock before we wer* clear tilico at residence. urti fnNk ol.hmt apwr for nariirifiic patrm ■». /I scientific research Ly l'xleut« tnkfii tnftiuirh Munii A < o. rccaW« Burns, — — Oregon Martinique ami St. Vincent. a constitutional disease, requires a fpoue^t rv»<k<i. wHb.tnl rhartra, in tho IKi mer. the «r.,U of the liav. r.y.rt kidney and b!ad- During the afternoon of the Sth constitutional treatment. Hall’s “One of the most terrifying con c’tr spcciu'.lit, and is A hanuaowiehf llloRtratad wemlity. luartfant clr I the British steamer Roddam, which Catarrh Cure is taken internally, ditions was that the atmosphere, ▼.ondeiYally su*cee:f.tl hi promptly ci.-r < iilalfo'i ativ adentlfir >«iuri;nj. Tarma. $3 a WANIKD- TUI'S rWl'RT UY M»'N hr*, b.ieh.. ludncv, bladder, ui ic acid tree Ferir ; 6»ur inontba, f 1. by all «ew»eb'Mler». uGTurii.tu (nivel Ntul A<|ver(i.sv for ol<| e-tah- had left St. Lnciu al midnight on acting directly upon the blood and being charged with ashes, it wasj ■We. aod’Di igdit'» b.scake, which is the v.-c; :t hoiito of solid finnnvial »laiiditiir (J()t3C1Droadwiy, York liwhed ».»it« >.■ r no.i an |>a)»t>ie in r«-h the 7tli for Martinique, crawled mucous surfaces of the system, Hraurh OCV-», •rm.. Wa«l>ia«r<Hi. I>. c. No' «m\H*-ltiu required, (live r«derenres nnd totall V (laI k. 'me The soil sun was " ns com- . Dr. .. kilmJr : i Swamp-Rcot is ■ not r* enrióle -»-If tiddre*.•*»•<! Mrtmpeu em-eloped. slowly into Castries llarhor, un thereby destroying the foundation 1 Addre»!« MMRHger, X m C'axton HIU r < hi< Hgo. pletely obsctird, and tk* air was crnrnr.ideiLfor-cvdiiythliigbutlfyixihaveMc- recognizable, grav with ashes, her of the disease, and giving the pa onlv illuminated bv the llames w.Jiv.er cr blod^r ir^ub e ft will bo fee 1 the remedy you need, k has been le ."i; WASrKh-MEVF.lt.tl VEKS INS OS CHAR ' rigging dismantled and sheets and tient strength by building up the I roll! the volcano and these of the tn30Tiianj<‘vzayu la hospital work, iii|-rivAtc •t'lvr «ml 4IHI<I rpp'ilHtuin ill r«rh at«t«-lnn, in l>ai>rein.r al.mif Inr» .,^.1 constitution and assisting nature llilx iiHinty rr |mrt'fl, r>-|>r>'-ent n.'! «'ixertlM' imntngS ll.lllgltlg UhOUt tom Ul.d burning town und shipping~It *’*™oi»cr top to write for our cnnfliUntinl letter bvfbr* ap old c-inhli.lir'i WF.Iihy lui-ii>ei>» holier <d m >II>I „1, 1 * ducc rc«icf and nas proved so •ucc^ssful itt in doing its work. The proprietors seems .«mall to sav that r the plying for patent; it mar be worth luonry. flnRiicial rinanciMl NtRnJiim. »fHixliiiir. Sn'iirv Sn'iiry IlH $|h 09 u.i weekly with ■ l,‘l rrt<1. scene • f.’cr. ca.-- t.-i«t a sp-. i*i «rr*hgc:.tcnt h«« We promptly obtain V. ». and F<>rai<u r\petiM-> Additional, nil pnyHhlr in eai»h each I Captain Whattar reported that, have so much faith in its curative was terrifying in the extreme. been my.<*c by which all readersof'.hisracer Wednei'diiy direct from head otVires. Horne* and cari ievex furnished. when nr<*e>'»ir' r ; who have, riit already tried it, i .ay have a erenep' E uc I om * self n<Hitan«i**«l '¡j;'. <* ii - having just cast anchor off St. powers that they offer one Hundred As we backed out we passed elosc sample bottle .-cut free ty nail, also a bees, vrbifi«- MaiiRKPr, .'¡6('MXtnn Ruildlng,< hicagw. •n.) TRADE MARKS ;r r.lsra EN — 1‘ierre al S P. M . in fine weather Dollars for any ease that it fails to to the Roraima, which was one telling more r.bo'it Swamp Roct and ! o— t» TIRE alUirnry • *«*•. H,-nd vio»trl. •««'trh oat if youhave kidney or bladder trov.bic or i'h"fi «ini w« iwn l *u IMMEDIATE succeeiling an awful thunderstorm cure. Semi for list of testimonials. mass of blaze«. The «team was fmd PR£E rrjKirl o. «»>■ I it v. W« «IV» W'isi writiujiaeatijn reading ihis generous ! M. b.'«l !««*l «< rvieo »«il «mi our Address. J. Chenev. A Co., JC during the night, he was talking .’er io thia paper and _ f y“_ 1 otaiM'ar« »re nw«l»r.U'. Fiji». rushing from the engine-room, and of send your addrcii to to the ship’s agent, Joseph Plissono,, Toledo, O the scream« of those on board were Hr. Kilmer £iCo..Linc SWIFT & This .¡cniture i» on every I k >« of ths fennin. who RIIS ill II boat alongside, wlieni Sold b” Druggists, i->C. Pwtont lowyerc, ha, non, II. Y. Tne , terrible to bear. The cries for help regular and Horn, ot «xáñp Opp. U.S. Patent Office,Withinffin, D.C. I.axiltivc Bromo Quinine rabiou he saw a tremendous cloud of smoke Hall’s Family Pills are the liest. aero all in vain, for w- coul I do J.'i'jc fifty ti’s cent sold by all good d. 'h« remedy that tern n <’<..'d lu vm day % íe t;c c i* J o :3 Geer & Cummins MOUNTAIN SPLIT THE CITIZENS BANK 325.000 00 Capital Stock P atents Sdentine American. MUNN £ New PATENTS CO.,