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•Vrf' J; WW' fy I . :m^mw "'•'-iviit '-<• '•• '" >vr. :> -jr;* PIERRE'S DAY- OF DOOM. To the Last, the Light-Hearted Population Refused to Believe There Was Danger, Though the Warning Was Ample. fae special correspondent of the New York Herald, writing from St. Pierre, Martinique, sayB: It is not so very long ago that I vis­ ited this poor St Pierre--this now City of the dead. It had, I am told, undergone but few changes until the coming of that frightful day which changed it so utterly. Where all is now aching desolation a Chaos of rulned; walls, blackened Stamps of trees and sickening stench, there basked in Summer sunshine a little City splashed through with vivid other--the effect to the cause. Their minds were not grooved to* such analysis; they were too simple, too West Indian for that. Sufficient that the rumble had gone. Up near Morne Rouge, abode of St Pierre's well-to-do, there was a lawn party that evening, which car­ ried its gayety far into the night-- zitzas tinkling in the tropic air, and mantilla-draped girls dancing in the moonlight to the click of castanets. Friday, day of the evil omen, dawn­ ed over St Pierre. It was made ZONES OF DESTRUCTfVENESS At ST- PfERRE f AS REPORTED BY UNITED STATES GEOLOGIST. U/e^« d<? d/u forr LeCarbrt qrtktrwn mMj* feolor--red tiled roofs cutting sharp Kaes on walls of creamy white, yellow "and orange and bird's-eye blue, min- fcled with the green of tropic verdure. Over the doomed city the morning If May 1 broke in miracle splendor, Skies bright and blue, and foliage Washed to a tresher green by a hard imin which had swept over the island the preceding night But it was the last fair day that St Pierre was to know. Those who by chance were in the •My that morning, and who by far »> #1, 'i¥ -•Vfp' air#; - ' f33?V. Professor Robert T. Hill. XFlrst Man to Penetrate to the Crater «t Mont Pelee and Report on the ! Eruption.) ladder hazard we*e out of it before Its tall, tell of how short-lived the fright was and how quickly the mercurial population regained its buoyant spir­ its. Some there were who looked grave when ashes, white and fine as powdered magnesia, began to sift from the great cloud which hung over Pelee's crest, but it seems that none thought to connect these myriads of floating particles with the deep, muf­ fled rumble which had just been Iward; none to trace the one to the sombre by a thunderstorm, which brooded over the mountains and from whose dark clouds came intermittent flashes of lightning. The nervous started at every thunderclap and anx­ iously asked one another if that was not Mont Pelee, while others sought to trace the olinding flashes to their source, to see if they were really the mere play of lightning or volcanic blazes from the time-worn crater, which many believed, and all hoped, was long ago extinct Then a heavy mist settled over the city and its sur­ roundings, and under its depressing Influence the day wore Itself to a close. Saturday, May 3! Just five days to the obliteration, to death, utterly, wholesale, sudden and tragic! And yet St, Pierre went forth that day to carnival doings, local celebration in honor of something or somebody. Facts are meager as to that one day and those following, for it must be remembered that nobody survived the horror that was so soon to come. But there were some who had spent days in tne city just previous to the trag­ edy--some who had left it only a scant half-hour before the holocaust Grieving for their own lost dead and with nerves unstrung by the narrow­ ness of their own escape, it may be that their overwrought minds are coining visions now, but these tell ear­ nestly of a column of smoke which arose, black as a pall, from Pelee's white shroud to rear its billows of crape into the form of a great up­ ended coffin. However that may t>e, there is evidence that all festival gay­ ety went when showers of pebbles be­ gan to rattle over the city, with now and then a shower of sand, of grains hot to the touch, despite their long flight through the air. St Pierre, it is now said, was in a more sober humpr that evening than it has been within the memory of those who tell disjointedly the tale of the days that ushered in its doom. And when on the next morning--Sunday, that was--another growling note was heard from Pelee and a small river of hot. black mud, touched here and there with red, was seen to come snak­ ing down out of the mists screening Pelee's summit, to cascade over a hundred-foot precipice and then to follow the line of least resistance un­ til it swirled about the Guerin factory, setting that building ablaze and des­ troying many lives, then apprehension grew into fear and soon might have lapsed into a panic, which doubtless would have saved through flight the lives of the thousands that Were soon to be sacrinced. It was at this crisis that the band of the government appeared. To Fort de France, the seat of local authority, had come reports of the uneasy feel ing of those dwelling in St Pierre, Martinique's commercial theater. It is thought that Gov. Mouttet honestly believed there was no cause for alarm and that a panic in St Pierre would work disaster in many ways, Interrupt- ing commerce and injuring the whole island as well as the threatened city. He, if none other, realized that an exodus from the place would be a tacit acknowledgment of the danger that lurked in the volcano, which all in Martinique would have the world believe was long ago extinct and never to be restored to the list of still active nor yet classed with those that are dormant In St. Pierre there were some gov­ ernment employes, among these gray- beards who had spent years in vol­ canic regions, and wno knew some­ thing of the preliminary warnings which come from these excitable hills. When the lava streams came pouring down from Pelee these at once made hurried applications for leaves of absence. The government sought to make an example of the youngest, and in a communication to him denied the application for furlough, and said moreover that if the applicant quitted his post at the time his position would be taken from him. This man --unfortunately, names are hard to obtain now from Martinique's hysteri­ cal population--promptly decided that his life was worth more than his place and, packing up his belongings, went with his family to some point inland, just where no one seems to know. Monday, May 5--Less than eighty hours, and the 30,000 lives of St. Pierre are to be blotted out as quickly as one snuffs a candle. Fear Is rife among the populace the morning of tnis day and an unwonted silence per­ vades the city--the hush that precedes a great tragedy. Macaws and parrots squawk discordantly from cages, foun­ tains tinkle merrily, seas and skies are blue, but pervading all is an air of expectancy--of dread. Few have yet left the city, but it would now take little to turn every street into a struggling stream of hu­ manity fleeing panic-stricken from the vicinity of that awful volcano. From tales I have heard one can easily conceive of what a trampling rush might have followed some tocsin alarm --such a mad rush for safety as theater crowds are wont to make when the cry of "fire" is heard. But there was none in Martinique to give needed warning--not even Pelee. All that day and the next and the next the volcano smoked, and at intervals emitted clouds of ashes, finely pulverized pumice the chemists say the ashes are composed of, but the wind sent the smoke and ashes away from the city, and while the roll­ ing clouds were seen from far-off points and while the ashes fell on the ships half a hundred miles away none in St Pierre seems to have known that the mountain was even then pouring forth smoke and ashes. What the residents did know was that a commission of geologists had been appointed by the government to survey Pelee and report upon it-- to say whether there was danger there or not Then, too, the governor was coming, and, moreover, his family was coming with him. Could there possi­ bly be any danger where so eminent and so important personages as these were? Also a company of soldiers from Fort de France were coming, and while the St Pierrans were talk- mmm i Htto V\ TiP/l/ W 'i-l r y M r** 173 W.M »\U V V-fO'ov'/// noo/ttrutets' i/"fa1*1^ V vie at to (OAcUl Ttwch SCKNK 07 DEATH. AND DUSOLATIOK TW MARTINIQUE. •Mat oi DortiwcaterD Martinique, wltli peista of 'i i* inr«afl • fill mm I ladles tad.) FOLLY OF ROASTING OXEN WHOLE "•wepeper Condemns UM PVM* t»*e m Bnrbarou. The rural mind cannot apparently, free Itself from the traditional idea that the roasting of an ox whole must be included m any program of high festivity, if due honor is to be done to the occasion. Already several amaii towns have notified their resolve to celebrate the coronation in thftt an­ cient manner, and it seems to accord with the popular wish. It may be doubted, nevertheless, whether any who partake of the ill-cooked fare will ipmaln of that opinion. Large animals •objected to the barbarous process are, •a they must be, done to a cinder out­ side and nearly raw inside. By the time the heat has penetrated to the center the exterior coating of flesh is burned to brick-hardness, and has no flavor of meat nor the least nourish- •Mnt left in it From the utilitarian Standpoint, therefore, there Is nothing te be said for reviving the old prac- 4ftea. It is In watching the cooking fbai the chief pleasure lies; there is --Beth Ing both grand and novel In seeing a mighty carcass dealt with by fire en masse. That spectacle stirs up the rustic imagination, and remains fixed in the memory long after all the other accompaniments are forgot­ ten. It is something to boast of in long after years that on a certain oo casion the village oracle saw "with his own eyes" an ox roasted whole, and he will mendaciously vow that he never tasted better food in his life. To have had such an abnormal experi­ ence as that gives personal conse­ quence to the narrator, and elevates him, for the moment far above the younger members of his little com­ munity. It may be fairly claimed, therefore, that the waste of good food in the present is more than balanced by the treasures of memory it leaves behind.--London Globe. Did Met Haed Htah. Lord ctstlemaydfe, an unpopular statesman, while traveling In Ireland refused alms to some sharp-witted mendicants and was answered: "Just chuck one tinpenny out of your an' I answer it will trafie all your friends in Athlon*. ' PROVED EQUAL TO THE OOOASION So Potter Palmer Raised Clerk's |al- ary Ins tend of OtaohM|lai HIM. Paul Gores had joined a group of hotel men who were reminiscent about the late Potter Palmer and his pecu­ liar) tiea as a hotel-keeper. "When I was at the Palmer House," he said, "there was one chap who proved equal to the occasion. It was when the 'old man,' as we always call­ ed Mr. Palmer, was putting in a par­ ticularly cranky month. It seemed as if everybody about the hotel was book­ ed for dismissal. One day Palmer walked into the bookkeeper's office, and, after looking for a minute at a man who hadn't been working for more than a week or two, walked quietly up to him, and, moistening his lips with his tongue, in his peculiar fashion, said: " 'Er--when is your month up?' "The young man, recognizing the voice, tossed his pen on the desk with­ out looking around, hopped back off his stool, pushed the stool out of the way, and replied: " "New, by gum! Aad IYa got ay ing of their arrival the company ap­ peared. They pondered long, and then gave fatal assurance that all was well. The people read the assurances which the papers printed, drew a long breath of relief and then turned their attention to other things, to affairs of business and pleasure and all that goes to make up the indolent, happy life of the pleasure loving natives of this isle. And that night--the night of May 7--the wise men hastened back to Fort de France. The governor and his family were to have followed the next day, the French cruiser Suchet having been di­ rected to leave her anchorage at Fort de France at 7 o'clock for the purpose of bringing home the governor and his party. That plan, if carried out, would have brought the cruiser to her doom, and her crew will never cease to thank their saints and bless the blun­ dering mechanic who broke something in the engine-room as the vessel was about getting under way, which acci­ dent delayed her departure and proba­ bly saved the lives of all on board. Wednesday night--eve of horror! There are none left alive to tell what the city was like that night, but Just around a little promontory at its southern edge nestles the little vil­ lage of Carbet, a pretty town of some six or seven hundred people. And not one of them was hurt, the town having been screened by the high ridge which lay between it and St Pierre and runs sheer to the sea. Its northern wall was precipitous and built close up to It was the south­ ern section of St Pierre, a thickly populated district whose houses left barely enough room for streets, the buildings huddling close to the steep and wooded acclivity, as if seeking to escape on the other side of the ridge. The intervening distance was short By the broad, finely graded, bridge a. and tunneled highway which connect­ ed city with village, one would judge that a five minutes' brisk walk would be amply sufficient to reach the one from tne other. But none sought safety by that road--at least none escaped by it a neighboring elevation, with a few who survived the wreckage In the of­ fing, and the few who looked on the cataclysm from distant points, that the only eye-witness versions can be had. The hour of the disaster Is placed at about 8 o'clock. A clerk In Fort de France called up another In St Pierre and was talking with him at 7:55 by Fort de France time, when Governor Mouttet. (Martinique Official Whom Scientists Hold Was Responsible for the Great Loss of Life - rom the Eruption of Mont Pelee.) he heard a sudden, awful shriek, and then could hear no more. The little that actually happened then can be briefly, very briefly told. It is known that at one minute there lay a city smiling in the summer morning; that in another It was a mass of swirling flames, with every soul of its 30,000 writhing in the throes of death. One moment and church bells were ringing joyous chimes in the ears of St Pierre's 30,- 000--the next the flame-clogged bells were sobbing a requiem for 30,000 dead. One waft of morning breeze flowed ovei cathedral spires and DIAGRAM OF VOLCANOES IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE. «V NORTH ATLANTIC PACIFIC T! tTVtNCCNT OCEAN OCCAM The heart-breaking pity of it all is that safety was so near--at the end of one's fingers almost For just over the ridge the grass and palms are everywhere as green as any in the tropics to-day, while up to the very crest of Its northern slope are the in­ effaceable marks of ruin and disaster, as if some sea of flame had brimmed to the very crest of the ridge, to suck back again before overflowing on the other side. So it is the the village folks of Car- bet that one must turn for the last act in this horrible tragedy. Thomas T. Prentiss, United States consul at St Pierre, was sitting on the veranda at his home in the early hours of the following morning. • friend came driving by in a buggy. "You had better get out of this," he called to the consul. "I am getting out, and getting out as fast as I can." "Oh, you are just merely a little scared," Mr. Prentiss replied. "There is no need of anyone going away." "It is better to be safe than sorry," retorted tne citizen as he whipped up his team and hastened on. It Is from this man, who witnessed the disaster a short time later from grip packed and under my desk, ready to start right away. "Palmer was stunned at first, but quickly rose to the occasion, and, step­ ping up to the young man, patted his shoulder, and without the quiver of an eyelash, said: "'No, no; you take me wrong. I don't want you to go. I merely want­ ed to know when your month Is up, so that I may know when to increase your salary.' "When, the young man recovered his breath the 'old man' was gone, says the New Tork Times. But his salary was increased all right, and he became Palmer's confidential clerk, and remained with him till he diad.". Made na Impreaalea. A school Inspector was talking to the class about the duty of showing their best qualities at home. After giving several Instances of the kind­ nesses given to and received from his own children at home, he said: "Now. children, tell me where I should be most missed if I died?" • little boy raised his hand and said, "In heaven, sir." domes, over facades and arches and roofs and angles of a populous and light-hearted city--the next swept a lone mass of white-hot ruins. The sun glistened one moment on spark­ ling fountains, green parks and frond- ed ponds--Its next ray shone on fusing metal, blistered, flame-wrecked squares and charred stumps of trees. One day and the city was all light and color, all gayety and grace--the next its ruins looked as thougn they had been crusted over with twenty cen­ turies of solitude and silence. Prof. Robert T. Hill, United States government geologist and head of the expedition sent out by the National Geographical society, has just come in from a daring and prolonged in­ vestigation of the volcanic activity in Martinique. Prof. Hill chartered a steamer and carefully, examined the coast as far north as r*ort de Macouba, at the ex­ treme edge of the island, making fre­ quent landings. After landing at Lc Precheur, five miles north of St Pierre, he walked through an area of active volcanlsm to the latter place and made a minute examination of the various phenomena disclosed. ARE TWO THOUSAND YEARS OLD Popplee Bloom Arter Beta* Barled for Twenty Centorlee. The extraordinary resuscitating power of light received a very curioua illustration a few years ago in the sli­ ver mines at Laurium. The mines had been abandoned more than 2,000 years ago as unworkable, and consisted for the most part of the 'slag" produced by the working of the miners. An en­ terprising Briton discovered that the mines contained plenty of silver which could easily be removed by the supe­ rior modern appliances. He discov­ ered, however, something far more valuable than the silver--viz., some poppies of a species which had disap­ peared for twenty centuries, the seed of which had lain dormant beneath the slag for 2,000 years. When the slag was removed to the furnace the next visit to the mine found the en­ tire space covered with a most gor* geous show of poppies. After their twenty centuries' rest they had bloom­ ed as vigorously as ever, without the aid of a single drop of water or any restorative other than the son. KILLEDJN WRECK General Consulting Engineer of the Burlington System Crushed to Death* WAS INSPECTING NEW ENGINE Gravel Train Crashes Into Locomotive and Injures Four Others, Two Prob­ ably Fatally--All Were Buried Un- • der Mass of Iron and Wood. Trapped inside a patent combination engine and car, five Burlington rail­ way officials were torn ana mangled at Alma, Wis. E. J. Blake, general consulting engineer of the Burlington system, was killed, two others were probably fatally injured and two seri­ ously injured. The patent car was standing on a siding, a gravel train rushed through the open switch, crashed into the engine and car, and buried the five officials under the tangled mass of iron and wood. The dead: E. J. Blake. The injured: J. D. Bessler, W. T. Breckenridge, D. C. Cunningham, W. B. Purdy. The officials composing the party left La «Jross in the Burlington inspec­ tion car to go over the line where improvements to the roadbed were be­ ing made. At Alma a new patent combination engine and car for unloading gravel trains was at work and the party de­ cided to inspect it This car is open from the rear and a narrow passage­ way, just wide enough to admit one man and six feet long, leads into its engine room. The official party, headed by Super­ intendent Cunningham, entered this hallway in single file. At that moment a south-bound gravel train from Pepin, heavily loaded and running at full speed, shot into the switch from around the curve and struck the ma­ chine car. The impact wrecked the machine car, derailed five cars to the rear, all of which were piled up in confusion on the track. Fireman Web Russeu and Engineer Larson, both of La Crosse, Jumped after the engine was reversed. The big engine was wrecked, but did not leave the track. A large force of men was soon at work taking out the injured, and all were removed to a coach. FIGHT TO DEATH WITH KNIVES 8tubborn Duel on the Street Watched By Big Crowd. Chicago dispatch: With a crowd of a hundred or more persons looking on, and with no police to Interfere, two men fought with knives at Twenty- second and Dearborn streets, until one of them fell dead, stabbed in the heart The slayer stood, knife in hand, until a policeman from the near-by station appeared and disarmed him without resistance. Once In a cell the man grew sullen and refused to answer questions concerning the dead­ ly quarrel. The fight was a stubborn one and the combatants seemed to realize that death was to be the portion of the loser. Both victor and vanquished were negroes, and the white persons who witnessed the encounter showed no disposition to call the police. Ne­ groes who looked on seemed to think it was a matter for settlement be­ tween the contestants, who might have good reasons for wanting to destroy one another. Charles Thomas, who eventually suc­ ceeded in fatally stabbing Alexander bhlrley, is large and muscular. He and Shirley met and quarreled in a State street saloon three days ago, but were prevented from fighting by the bystanders. At that time the men de­ clared that the flght would be con­ tinued to the death at their next meet­ ing. This meeting came at '< o'clock Fri­ day evening, and both drew knives when they were 20 feet apart Rush­ ing toward each other they began sparring for an opening, and a moment later two slashes from Shirley split Thomas' coat and vest. Another pass and Thomas wounded Shirley slightly in the left hand. Shirley then made'several lunges at his antagonist but faied to strike him. On Shirley's last rush Thomas dodged, and, with a backhanded blow, suc­ ceeded in burying the blade of his knife In Shirley's breast UNIQUE MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE Jollet Citizens Cast Flowers on the Water In Honor of Naval Heroes. 0 Jollet (111.) dispatch: The memory of the naval veterans from Joliet was honored in a unique way during the Memorial day exercises. 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