Tillamook headlight., May 15, 1902, Image 6

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steamed ahead for St. Pierre and at 6 ' patch to the Herald. It was not expec.
o’clock was at our anchorage off the ted that survivors would be found, and
French Official Reports of the
Place Beatin landing. When the agent so there has been no disappointment at
Catastrophe.
with lighters and stevedores came along­ the mournful reports that have lieen re­
P aris , May 9—The Colonial Minister,
side and told us that Pelee had been act­ turned. Piles of dead in the vicinity of
M. de Craid, received this evening two
ing ugly ever since Saturday and that the site of the cathedral tell a story of
cable messages from the Secretary-Gen­
there had been quite a heavy fall of hot the attempt to find sanctuary and ref­
eral of the Government of Martinique.
sand or dust over St. Pierre itself. How uge in the great structure of worship.
J. E. G. L'Hprre, sent respectively at 5
Men and women, panic-stricken at the
ever, the volcano seemed to have quieted
p. in. and 10:30 p.111, yesterday. The
down and we got the stevedore 10 work cataclysm, turned in the moment of their
earlier cable reported that the wire were
! smai tly. ThereJ were al>out 18 other despair to the cathedral, and were up-
broken between Fort de France and St.
steamers and coasting craft anchored as parently overcome before they could
Pierre, but it was added that, in view of
J we were in the open harbor, aud of them reach the doors.
reports that the eruption of Mount Pelee
-
being the Tamaya, a hark from the
The sea for miles around was covered
had wiped out the town of St. Pierre,
French port Nantes, the captain lieing with the wreckage of the vessels sunk
all the boats available at Fort de France
called Noritz or Maurice. Then there off St. Pierre at the time of the disaster,
Tons of Lava on the Ship.
were dispatched to the assistance of the
were four other large sailing »vessels, and ashore only a few trees, all bent
inhabitants of that place.
The ship was covered from stein to The British steamer Roddam put into | seaward by the force of the volcanic
lliv lilllinii
.............
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The second dispatch confirmed the re­ stern with tons of powdered lava, w hich
the birth next to ours and let drop her showers, were left standing. When
ports of the destruction of St. Pierre and retained its heat for hours after it had
nearing St. Pierre, the Rubis met a
its environs and shipping by a rain of fallen. In many cases it was practically anchor.
number of tugs towing lighters filled
Like
the
End
of
the
World.
fire, and said it was supposed that the incandescent, and to move about, the
Then something happened. There was with refugees. The heat from the smok-
whole population had been annihilated, deck in this burning mass was not only
with the exception of a few’ injured per­ difficult, but absolutely perilous. I am a shaking in the air so that I felt as ing, lava-covered ruins at St. Pierre was
sons rescued by the cruiser Suchet.
only now able to begin thoroughly to though some one had jostled me. Then suffocating, and the stench from the
Immediately after the receipt of the clear and search the ship for any some man near me said : ‘ My God, ! corpse-strewn streets was awful. Only
dust from the eruption on the Island of
above dispatches, the flag over the Colo- ‘ damage done by this volcanic rain and look at that I" He was looking at Pelee j a few walls were standing. The report
St. Vincent is still falling here. The
nial Office w as draped with crape and to see if there are any corpses in out-of- and every soul on board looked too. I' that the hospital clock was found intact.
roads and houses are covered and inch hoisted at half inast.
the-way places.
For instance, this | can't describe what I saw, of course, i with its hands stopped at 7 :50, was
thick.
morning I found one body in the peak but by first thought was that the end of confirmed, ns was the statement that
(The Island of Barbadoes is over 100
MOUNTAIN SPLIT.
of the forecastle. The bcxly was horri the world would look just like that. It! the officers of the cable company had
miles from the Island of St. Vincent.)
Vomited Fire, Vapor and Sulp­ bly burned, and the sailor had evidently was just as though the mountain had j entirely disappeared.
been blown up by all the dynamite in ' On all sides were found portions of
crept in there in this agony to die.
hur.
On the arrival of the Roddam at St. the world. First of all a great pillar of ! corpes, which were gathered up by the
S t . L ucia , B.W.I., May 11.—Captain
LAVA FLOWED FOUR DAYS
Freeman, of the British steamship Rod­ Lucia, the ship presented an appalling flame rushed straight up in the air then soldiers and gendarmes and burned on
I it opened out wider than the mountain one of the public squares.
But the Most Terrible Part of the dam. a survivor of the terrible catastrope appearance. Dead and calcined bodies
Not a drop of water was procurable
lay about the deck, which wras also itself and came rosring down out of
at
St.
Pierre,
Martinique,
gives
the
fol
­
Eruption Was Brief.
the sky upon us. Some of us, with Mox- i nshore. The darkness caused by the
crowded
with
injured.
helpless
and
lowing account of his experiences:
L ondon , May 9.—A dispatch to the
” The steamer Roddam, of which I am suffering people Prompt assistance was ley (second officer) rushed to the fore-' clouds of the volcanic dust shrouded
Reuter Telegram Company from Kings­
captain, left St. Lucia at midnight of rendered to the injured by the authori castle head to heave the anchor. I saw the town, and continuous subterranean
ton. Jamaica, giving the details of the
May 7, and was off St. Pierre, Martini­ ties here, and my poor, tortured men the captain shouting ordersand I saw rumbling adds to the horror of the scene.
Martiniquedisaster already known, says:
So far the search has been hindered by
j McFear, the engineer, drop below. As
que, at 6 o’clock on the morning of the were taken to the hospital.
** Thousands were killed at St. Pierre,
; we reached the ship’s head the fiery the fires that are still-raging, and the
8th. I noticed that the volcano, Mont
Water
at
Boiling
Heat.
where a terrible panic prevailed. The
I cloud was upon us. Red hot stones investigators are in great danger. From
Pelee, was smoking, and crept slowly in
The dead were buried, and I had omit­
eruption began Saturday, May 8, when
toward the bay, finding there, among ted to mention that out of 21 black labor - scalding mud and real splashes of flame the positions of the bodies, the opinion
St, Pierre was covered with ashes, and
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r_. , *s formed that many were overcome
and scattered __________
all over the ____
ship.
others, the steamers Roraima, the tele­ I ers that I brought from Grenada to help 1 dropped
appeared to be enveloped in fog. The
graph repair steamer Grappler and four in stevedoring, only six survived. Most There was another roar and with it all i alm°st before they realized the extent
flow of lava continued until Wednesday,
the peril. Many of the bodies are in
sailing vessels. A wall of fire swept over of the others threw themselves overboard the water in the harbor seemed to gather ‘
May 7 ’
the town and the bay. The Roddam to escape a dreadful fate; but they met up and rush upon the shipping Every lifelike positions, as though death had
The message adds:
was struck broadside by the burning a worse one, for it is the actual fact that cruft heeled over to the great tidal wave come with a breath, as indeed mav
•' In the Island of St. Vincent the Sou
have been the case. Steps have been
mass. The shock to the ship was terri­ the water around the ship was literally and seemed to careen and sink.
friere (volcano) is active and earthquakes
taken to prevent disease resulting from
ble, nearly capsizing her. I went to at boiling heat.
When
the
wave
struck
us,
it
flooded
us
are frequent. So far no damage has been
the disaster. Burial parties are work­
anchorage between 7 and 8 o’clock, and
fore
and
aft,
sweeping
away
the
masts,
The
escape
of
my
vessel
was
miracul
­
done.’’
hardly had I moored when the side of ous. The woodwork of the cabins and funnel, all the boats save one, and all ing night and day, but it is impossible
In response to the request of Governor
the volcano opened out with a terrible bridge and everything inflammable on the riffle of the deck. There was a venti­ that the dead can be cared for as their
Llewellyn, of the islands, the British
explosion. Hearing the awful report of deck was constantly igniting, and it was lator at hand and to save myself I seized friends would wish.
cruiser Indefatigable will lie despatched
the explosion, and seeing the great wal| with great difficulty that w’e few’ surviv­ j it and was nearly killed there by being
from the Island of Trinidad to the Is­
Notice.
of flames approaching the steamer, ors managed to keep the flames down. 1 driven into it by the force of the wave.
land of St. Vincent by way of St. Lucia.
A ou can now get a good meal or lunch
those on deck sought shelter wherever it My ropes, awnings, tarpaulins were com­ A couple of stevedores pulled me out of
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
at anv time you feel hungry.
was possible, jumping into the cabin, the pletely burned up.
the ventilator and dragged me into the
Point-a- Pitre, Island of Guadeloupe,
The Bakery has opened up its restau­
forecastle and even into the hold.
steerage.
There
I
remained,
half
dazed
rant again.
I witnessed the entire distruction of
French West Indies, dated yesterday,
I was in the chartroom, but the burn­ St. Pierre. The flames enveloped the 1 for quite a time, during which the ship
Give us a call and we will convince von
say« :
tig embers were borne so swiftly that town in every quarter with such rapidity I roiled and the fire and rocks battered that our meals are all right.
“ The Mont Pelee (St. Pierre) crater
C. A. V ogler ,
they were swept in through the door that it was impossible that any person I the decks. Now and then a charred and
ejected yesterday morning melton rocks
Tillamook Bakery.
and portholes, suffocating and scorching could be saved. As I have said, the day shrieking sailor rolled down the hatch-1
ami ashes during three minutes, and
me badly.
I was terribly burned by was turned suddenly tonight, but I could way and .lied as he came, so that quite 1
completely destroyed St. Pierre and the
these embers about the face and hands, distinguish by the light of the burning a pile of corpses lay over me.
districts within a four-mile radius. All
but managed to reach the deck. As soon t iwn people distractedly running about Pulled From Under Corpses !
the inhabitants were burned.
as it w as possible when there, I muster­ on the beach. The burnings buildings
Some one pulled me from under these, |
’’ About eight passengers from the
ed the few survivors who seemed able to stood out from the surrounding daikness
CUTTING,
Roraima, of the Quebec steamship line
I
and
I clambered to the deck and began SHAVING, HAIR
move, ordered them to slip the anchor, like daik shadows. All this time the
were saved by the French cruiser
'
turning
a
hand
toward
saving
the
in
­
SHAMPOOING, ETC
leaped for the bridge, and rang the en­ mountain was roaring and shaking, and
Suchet.
gine for full speed astern. The second during the intervals between these ter­ jured, who were lying all about, though
” The inhabitants of the southern dis­
and third engineer and a fireman were rifying sounds I could hear the cries of even some redhot stones and mud were Electric Baths nicely flitted up. Good for
tricts of the island, who were dependent
falling. As I was about this work, Cap.!
persons suffering with rheumatism,
on watch below, and so escaped injury. dispair and agony from the thousands
on St. Pierre for provisions, are menaced
j tain Muggah came along. I knew him ■
They did their part in the attempt to es- 1 who were perishing.
by famine."
by his clothes, though these were smol.
capc, hut the men on the deck could not
The cries added to the terror of ths
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Ja­
work the steering, because it was jamm­ scene, but it is impossible to describe its dering, but his face was scorched beyond
maica says ;
ed bv the debris from the volcano. We 1 horror or the dreadful sensations it pro­ recognition. "Lower the boat!" I could
Tillamook Custom Tailor Shop.
'• Hie first intimation of a disaster (at
accordingly went ahead an J astern un­ duced. It was like witnessing the end not obey his orders, however, for the
Martinique) was the breaking of the
G entlemen :
boat
that
was
left
by
the
tidal
wave
was
til the gear was free, but iu this running of the world. Let me add that after the
cables Tuesday. The French cable to
I beg to inform you that I am open
backward and forward it was two hours first shock was over, the survivors of the burned full of holes by the Hamingrain
Martinique from Puerto Plata was
after the first shock before we were clear crew rendered willing help to navigate I saw no more of the captain after that, for business with a very choice line of
broken Wednesday.
Cable communi­
but I was told by a stevedore of St. Kitt pantings and suitings to choose from.
of the bay.
the ship to this port. Mr. Plissoneau. that he jumped overboard and got on a ' All wishing anything in my line please
cation with all the northern islands is
Only
Light
Came
From
Volcano.
our agent at Martinique, happening to fit-
stopped.
raft that had been hurriedly put to. I K'Te me a
"One of the most terrifying conditions on board, was saved, and really I believe gether. and that he died there.
' Shop over G eo E omvxds Store.
“Glimpses of Hell “
was that the atmosphere, being charged that he is the only survivor of St. Pierre
All this time the sea was rolling like
Yours trulv,
I
was
severely
burned
on
the
hands
and
“ The sui vIvors of the British steamer with ashes, it was totally dark. The
the heaviest kind ofground swell ; Pelee
T. SARCHET.
Roddam described the scene at St Pierre : sun was completely abscured, and the face.
P . ® . Repairing
of all kinds, pressing
was roaring and the air was full of
.
(Signed)
F reeman .
as being ’glimpses of hell,’ beggaring air was only illuminated by the flames
I looked at St a,,d
strange shocks. T When
—
....
Master British Steamship Roddam.
description. The Roddam ft men were from the volcano and these of the burn,
Pierre the sight was terrifying,
The
killed chiefly by molten lava.
ing town and shipping. It seems small
town was gone, and in its place was a
The Roraima was wrecked in a to say that the scene was terrifying in ANOTHER SURVIVOR’S TALE long stretch of gray, smoking, flaming
terrible upheaval of land and sea. The the extreme.
As we backed out we
dust. All about us the ships were sunk {
whole crew |>eriabed.
passed close to the Roraima, which was How the Mountain Split and Filled
or aflame, and between them and the
Sky
With
Fire.
Two shifts were lost with all on one mass of blaze. The steam was
shore dead bodies floated singly or in
D ominica , May 11 — Atnorg those
board in an attempt to approach Martin­ rushing from the engine-room, and the
groups. Some hours after. I don't know
ique ’’
screams of those on board were terrible miraculous saved from our steamship,
how long, but I have been since told
A former resident
st. Pierre, now to hear. The cries for help were all in the Roraima, and brought by her sister
that it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
SHAVING,
in this city, says there were al»out 1000 ' vain, for we could do nothing but save ship, the Korona. to Fort de France, was
the French steamer came in and rescued
white fteople among the inhabitants of our ship. When I last saw the Roraima First Officer Scatt. He is the most intel
hair cutting ,
17 of us, more dead than alive. We
she was settling down astern. This was ligent man. and though severely burned
the destroyed town.
SHAMPOOING,
were carried to Fort de France and
I’he Colonial Office is without won! about 10 o’clock in the morning. When and much shaken by his exj>erience. he put in the hospital.
from Martinique, except that a g.wve1 the Roddam was safely out of the har. tells a thrilling story. That story I send
(Signed.)
E llbr S cott ,
disaster, the extent of which ia not men bor of St. Pierre and its desolations and believing it is the first to be cablet! to
EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRSTCLASS
First Officer ot the Roraima.
tinned, has occurred, and the receipt of a horrors. I made for St. Lucia. Arriving New York, as the full personal narrative
repetition of the stcaiuer Roddam's news. here and when the ship was safe, I mus­ <>f a survivor of the awful catastrophe
NOT A LIVING BBING FOUND J^OR ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.
R. H. G ordon .
I’he !»elief now exists that tlie British tered the survivors, as well as I was able of May 8
Agent Ruebeck Steamship Co.
West Indian Islands of l>ominiea ami and searched for the dead and injured.
Victims Seem to Have Been
GO TO
Some I found in the saloon, w here
Dominica, B IV. 1.. May 1!.—It was
St Vincent have also suffered severely.
Asphynated in a Twinkling.
TILLAMOOK ABSTRACT AND
All messages to these islands are sent at , they had vainly sought (or safety, but about daylight on the morning of May
N ew Y osk . May «.-Relief parties
sender's risk and no cipher dispatches the cabins were full of burning embers 3 when we sighted the Island. We had have ventured into the streets of St.
TRUST CO.
are accepted
J that Imd blown in through the port run through a thunder storm and wel Pierre, sue. a Castries. St. Lncia, dis-
T hos . C oates , Pres.
B. L. E» dv . S*
The Roraima Exploded.
The British Royal Mail steamer Esk,
which arrived at St. Lucia this morning,
—
having passed St. Pierre last
Awful Extent of the Catas­ reports
night. The steamer was covered with
trophe at St. Pierre Island ashes, though she was five miles
distance from the town, which was in
of Martinique.
impenetrable darkness. A boat was
S t . T homas . D. W. I... May 9.—It is sent in as near as possible to the shore,
now estimated that 40,000 persons perish­ but not a living sole was seen ashore,
ed uh a result of the volcanic eruption in only flames. The Quebec Company’s
steamer Roraima was seen to explode
t ie island of Martinique.
The British schooner Ocean Traveler, | and disappear.
of St. Thomns, N. B.. arrived at the isl- : M. Biaguenot, a sugar planter of the
and of Domanica, British West Indies, at Island of Martinique, received a cable
3 o'clock this afternoon. She was oblig dispatch this morning from Fort de
ed to flee from the island of St Vincent, ! France, sent by the manager of the Fra­
Brit s 1 West Indies,during the afternoon nçais factory, announcing that he had
of Wednesday, May 7, inconsequence of “tried to reach St. Pierre, but found the
a heavy fall of sand from a volcano coast covered with ashes and the town
which was erupting there. She tried to enveloped in dust, and could not land.”
reach the Island of St. Lucia, but ad
Volcanic Dust from St. Vincent.
verse curreuU prevented her from doing
B ridgetown , Island of Barbadoes,
»0.
British West Indies, May 6.—Volcanic
The
Volcano Exploded.
The schooner arrived op|M>siteSt. Pier­
re, Martinique, Tuesday morning, May
8. While about a mile off the volcano
of ¿Mount Pelee exploded, and fire from
it swept the whole town of St. Pierre,
destroying the town and the shipping
there, including th* repair ship (happier
of the West India & Panama Teh graph
Company, of L mdon, which was engag­
ed in reparing the cable near the Gueirin
factory. The Ocean Traveler, while on
her way to Dominica, encountered a
quantity of wreckage.
Many Parishes Laid Waste.
The French cruiser Suchet arrived at
Point-a Pitre, Island of Guadeloupe
French West Indies,from Fort de France,
this morning, bringing several refugees
She confirmed the report that the town
of St. Pierre, Martinique, was destroyed
at 8 o’clock Thursday morning by a vol­
canic eruption. It is sup|KHed that
most of the inhabitants of St. Pierre
were killed,that the neighboring parishes
were laid waste, and that the residue of
the |M>pulation of St. Pierre is without
food or shelter.
The commander of the Suchet rep »res
that at one o’clock Thursday the entire
t >wn of St. Pierre was wrapped in Hames.
He endeavored to save alxnit 30 persons,
more or less burned, from the vessels in
the harbor, liis < ffic.Ts went ashore in
small Itoals, seeking for survive!*!, but
w re unable to penetrate the town. They
saw heaps of kxlies upon the wharves,
and it is believed that not a single person
resident of St. Pierre nt the moment of
the catastrophe escaped.
Governor of the Colony Perished
The Governor of the colony, his w ife
and staff, were in St. Pierre.and probably
p wished The extent ot the catastrophe
cannot l»e imagined The captain of the
British steamer Roddam was very se
riously injured, an 1 is now in the ho 8
pitalat St. Lucia All of his officers and
engineers were killed or are dying.
Nearly every member of the crew is dead
burgeon CmiplieU and 10 of the crew of
the R nLLim jumped overboard at St
Pierre and wertTtnal
Fire Descended on the Town.
4
Tlx* comma ider of the French cruiser
Suchet has telegraphed to the Minister
of M «rine, M de Lanessau, from Fort
de France, Island of Martinique, under
«late «>1 Thursday, May 8, at 10 P. M.,
as follows ;
”II ivejust returned from St. Pierre,
which has lieen completely destroyed bv
immense mass of fire,* which fell on the
town at about 8 in the morning. The
entire
(mpnlation
(about
25, 000
souls) is supposed to have perished. I
have brought back the tew survivors,
about 30. All the shipping, in the har-
imr has been destroyed. The errup-
tion continued.”
The commander of the Suchet has been
ordered to return to St Pierre with all
tlie s|teed possible and forward details
of the disaster to the French Govern
ni.-iit. Hr cannot, however, be heard
from for 24 hours, as ih? Suchet has
gone to the Island of Guadeloupe in
in order to oht tin provisions.
It is te ire I th it M. L. M ».liter, Gov.
er nor of Martinique, has pcrishe I. He
telegraphed \l iv 7 that lie was proceed­
ing to St. Pierre. Senator Knight is
also s u pi Mised to have l>een at St.
Pierre.
Senator Knight is the president of the
General Council, or local legislative
body of the Island of Martinique.
A RAIN OF FIRE.
holes. Through these the fire swept as
through funnels, and burned the victims
where they lay or stood, leaving a circu­
lar imprint of scorched and burned flesh.
I brought 10 on deck who were thus
burned. Two of them were dead. The
others survived, although in a dreadful
state or torture from their burns. Their
screams of agony were heartrending.
Out of a total ot 23 on board the Rod
dam. which includes the captain and the
crew’, 10 are dead, and several are in the
hospital. My first and second mates, my
chief engineer, and my supercargo,
Campbell by name, were killed.
EDGAR LATIMER,
BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER
T. SARCHET,
Edwards & Sladden,
Barber
Hot and Cold Baths.