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VOL. 18.
II. I>. Muln^xrr. I’roprlH
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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.,