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«V ^:: • • " >V:i -«/ ,?•' -• v"» '•"•,>• m -»* .'• '-" y ,;V V*,.••••' •;* V-.T^J%:^'%'t i^-^rw^x' .. •., . ...^ 4.. .'. , ^L'.W. „- - : LA , ./-v • j - ft »' ^'-', ... :-, V Lz 1 < • ** :'V'--V~.'-*- FURTHER DETAILS OF - •• : '• ' "" ; • = %"' •' 1 ? :'*V^;'J/'-V PAUNCEFOTE Captain of the Steamer "Roddam" Describes the Terrible Scenes Through Which He Passed \ --Tale Perhaps Never Had a Parallel in Stories of the Sea '. § a'AF ' Flret of «0 the ships that passed ' trough the shower of ashes of Mont ^ t i Pelee and reached the American main- land to tell about It, the British Etona, »LV;t; bound to New York from Montevideo and St Lucia, has arrived at New y?*•£.{;' York. Her captain, John Cantell, and ^^Vher passengers brought with them a \-f" thrilling story, not only of their own V -jf1" _ experience in the second eruption of t^"e" Martinique's destroyer, but of the Roddam and her heroic captain, whom u»ey visited in the St Lucia hospital The Etona reached St Lucia oft the •veiling of May 10, expecting to coal watch I found that «• had been about an hour reaching daylight "Our decks were covered two inches with this matter," and the captain ex­ hibited a box of volcanic dust, which had been saved by his crew. "You can see the marks of it yet about the masts and our polished woodwork, and I don't think my passengers are yet over their fright No curiosity would ever take us again near that terrible place. "Before leaving St Lucia," Capt Cantell said, "we visited the wreck of the Roddam, which escaped from to everybody to stand clear. An in­ stant later the air was filled with flame and falling batches of fire. The ship was immediately ablaze from end to end, and the crew and laborers aboar.1 began to rush about, frantic with pain. "Capt Freeman ran into the chart- room, but was driven out- again by flames that came in at the port hole. Then he rushed to the engine room telephone and signaled the engineer to put on full steam. Some one responded and the ship began to move, but the steering gear was jammed and would not work. He kept the engines going . Lucia, the brave man refused all medi­ cal treatment until the others were cared for. He will live, the doctors tell me." BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF ST. VINOENT WM aii larthly Paradise Before the Recent Awful Disaster. St Vincent, which has suffered from the eruption of its own souflriere vol­ cano, is one of the most beautiful and picturesque islands in the British West Indian group. It has an area of 131 square miles and has been de­ scribed as one of the flashing jewels BIRD'S-EYE VIEW. OF PART OF THE WEST INDIES SHOWING SCENES OF VOLCANIC DISTURBANCE WUDU apkulA CANtSH C*UIJEt"taart!OI CMU> NOT CET WW* S MILES Of jT.PlEBt. 8tTv«M IT. TMog *}_ """* «Vran rffU«T» and leare the same night In the r* harbor news was received of the St h.; wr h Pierre disaster, and, lying at anchor, ^"v was all that was left of the Roddam. 1 % * Ail St Lucia was im mourning and • the people were so distracted by the news from the neighboring island that i-T' It was not until May 11 that Capt Cantell could obtain coal and pass on his Journey. St. Pierre was passed •^v^at a distance of about four miles and all on board studied the land with # glasses. The weather was clear and we had * fine view," said the captain, "but ? the old •lines of St Pierre were not s,rh recognizable. Everything was a mass ij of blue lava, and the formation of ! the land itself seemed to have . changed. When we were about eight jJJf miles off the northern end of the is- i?" \ land Mont Pelee began to belch a ><< second time. Clouds of smoke and /Tj lava shot into the air and spread over % all the sea, darkening the sun. Our * decks in a few minutes were cov­ ered with a substance that looked like ; sand dyed brown, which smelled like ' •"] w ;• "fir "Partial T badly darkness came upon us, frightened. After the stories we had heard and the sights we had seen at St. Lucia we did not know but that we ourselves were to be bur- led under red-hot lava or engulfed by another tidal wave, though we were thee ten miles from shore. " 'Crowd on steam,' i whistled to •tfijii", Chief Engineer Farrish, and he need- no urging. Slowly we drew away ' • • !f through a suffocating atmosphere, foot by foot, yard by yard, and at last * f the sun began shining. We had P^sed outside the hailstorm of dust aaad sand. When t looked at my • rf V* ISLAND OF St Pierre May 8. The watchman was engaged in gathering up fragments of human bodies and putting them away in the locker. He discontinued the work to show us around. "The Roddam presented an awful spectacle. She looked as if she had been thrust into soft, clinging mud and pulled out again. The mud stuck to her like cement and was two feet deep on her decks. Awnings, stan­ chions and boat covers had been burned or swept away. Tarpaulins, rails, stays, hatch covers and even her smokestacks were gone. When the watchman dug into the lava he found here and there fragments of human remains. All that was left of the ship was her hull, and that, being iron, had escaped destruction. "Hearing that Capt Freeman was at the Hotel Felite, we called on him. I wanted to get from his own lips ihe story of his escape. P»was unprepared for the terrible sight which greeted my eyes when I entered the room. "Capt Freeman's face was burned to the color of teak wood and large patches of skin and flesh were burned from his bones, here and there. Both his hands were swathed in bandages. His hair and mustache were gone, his eyes were tied open and he was in great pain. When I told him who I was he talked a great deal, to relieve himself, he said, of his suffering. "He said the Roddam had been tn St. Pierre only an hour when the erup­ tion occurred. He was talking to an agent in a boat alongside when a big black squall approached the ship from the island. It was like a black wall, traveled fast and was accom­ panied by a tidal wave and a deafen­ ing roar. The sun disappeared im­ mediately. "Capt Freeman Bald that he shouted VINCENT. ahead and astern alternately, hoping to free the paddles, and in so doing nearly struck the Quebec Line steamer Roraima, from which clouds of steam and flame were rising. - "Men on the Roraima were wring* ing their hands and rushing about frantically. Some of them jumped in­ to the sea, where they must have disd instantly, Capt Freeman said, for the MBuwarer * mwm ajJMuigajummiut that He like a necklace around the Caribbean sea. The last British cen­ sus credited it with a population of 60,000, of whom a large majority are negroes engaged in the cultivation of sugar cane, which is the principal crop. Two hundred years ago it was the home of the Carib Indians, who were Induced by the French to join in a revolution against England. They culminates In the vast crater of Morne y Garou, which in 1812 was the scene of a tremendous eruption. Billions of tons of rock and earth were hurled high into the all*--part, as molten lava, flowed down into the sea; part, shivered into thih dust, was carried high up into the clouds. For three days the awful convulsions of nature continued. The dust from the crater so obscured the rays of the sun and brought on a darkness so terrifying that the few survivors believed that the world had come to an end. The impalpable dust was carried by the trade winds to the islands of Barba­ dos and St Lucia and turned day into night The inhabitants became panic- stricken with fear and abandoned their ordinary vocations and devoted themselves to prayer and fasting. This was the closing period of a series of volcanic eruptions which had lasted two years, and the direc­ tion of the seismic wave was not un­ like that -which devastated Martinique. The disturbance in 1812 seemed to pass under the bed of the ocean to Venezuela, Caracas, the capital of that country, was partly destroyed by an earthquake and 10,000 persons per­ ished. With the exception of the great Lisbon earthquake, the eruption of the mighty mountain was the most frightful cataclysm known to the world up to that time. The whole configuration of the island was changed. The eastern end sank into the sea, and where it stood there is now a great depth of water. The vol­ canic forces remained quiescent until 1882, and then the warning rumble was heard again; but it was a false alarm, and the terrible scenes of the early part of the century were not re­ peated. The island of St Vincent lies 100 miles west of Barbados and between St Lucia and the Grenadines. From north to south stretches a ridge of high, wooded hills, extending to the (FRORT A PHOTOGRAPH TAKETC RIFFF 17, IFLWJ KD /\ TT ATAA [s action mm**- i ?f V> It Jw CHKELOTTE w CALLTAQUA WHOLE SEA MUST BE RECHARTED Ohaacet la !**•!• of the Caribbean M "" ' ' Yean* te Me KztanalT«. - Am the work of repairing the cables 14:; jv broken by the volcanic forces proceeds it is gradually being recognized that ' '• the whole Caribbean sea must be re- charted. The French cable repairing |p «' ataff, which is hard at work night and jl\, day, reports from time to tiine the itfe-'fy'i changes revealed by its soundings in |h •" deep water. The bottom of the Carib- II? bean has altered to such an extent as to be unrecognizable. The old charts are everywhere found Pf/•< The changes in sea levels are ^ not confined to the immediate center " of volcanic activity, but extend as far v, .• north as Porto Rico and it Is even believed that the seismic wave will be found to have altered the ocean bed ft',r round Jamaica. Vessels plying be- * f *' tween St. Thomas, Martinique, St. Lucia and the other islands are finding tt necessary to heave the lead while many miles out at sea. J.'-i Teijr Bct ioub u auttfiirinationB are go- •'"l <** on in the vicinity of St., Vincent, t: '; where a considerable part of the north - $$ !•. •' v .', • end of the island has slid into the sea, leaving a wide inlet in place of the for­ mer flourishing estate of Walibou. Ves­ sels that have endeavored to approach St Vincent toward the north say that it is Impossible to get nearer than eight miles to the scene of the catas­ trophe and that at that distance the ocean is seriously perturbed as from a submarine volcano, boiling and hissing continually. The theory has been ad­ vanced that the St Vincent volcano, La Soufriere, has found an outlet be­ neath the waves. It is feared here that scientists are right when they say that the worst is not over and that further outbreaks may occur at any moment involving those islands which have hitherto es­ caped. It has now been ascertained that at least thirty Americans perished In the dj§t. Pierre disaster and twenty-two in the island of St Vincent. The bodies of the family of Mr. Prentls, the Amer­ ican consul, have been identified. The body of Capt. Meggo of the British Ciulc-iepttir a'uip Grappier was wasned ashore and has been burled. Margaret Stokes, who was ao Severely burned water was boiling like a caldron. It was like a mass of boiling mud. Many of the Roddam's crew had disappeared, probably swept overboard, and the rest went one bygone until only six were left Every one of them must have died a terrible death. "After a time the captain got the steering gear working, the ship ans­ wered her helm and he headed her out to sea. Slowly the sky cleared, and it was possible for him to see about him. Men in the red hot lava lay dying all along his traGk. He him­ self, though he stayed at the wheel, was unable to lift his burned arms. Blood from his forehead kept running into his eyes, obscuring his visrlon. He likened his escape to the passage from hell into heaven. At last he reached the open sea, and with the help of two Bailors, two engineers and the boat­ swain, succeeded in taking his boat to St Lucia. "During the run put of the harbor the chief engineer died a horrible death. He escaped the first shock, started the engines and, not finding his men below, went on deck to look for them. As he thrust his head out of the hatch a mass of lava fell upon him, burning one side of his face com­ pletely off. "Capt Freeman's performance per­ haps never had a parallel In stories of the sea," continued Capt Cantell. ^'When the Roddam arrived at St on board the Roraima, is recovering and strong hopes are also entertained of the ultimate recovery of a Canadian lady who was a passenger on the same ship. The Roddam is being repaired at St Lucia. were crushed and thousands were transported. Hundreds, rather than submit, threw themselves into the sea. A few descendants of these orig­ inal owners of the island still exist on lands granted to them by the Brit­ ish government St. Vincent like all the Islands in the group, is of volcanic origin and sea on either side. , The Soufriere, which is now in eruption, is in the northwest. It towers 3,000 feet above the sea. Its crater is three miles in circumference and 500 feet deep. From the summit the view on all sides was superb. Borrowers must not be choosers. LAKR IN CBATKR THAT HAS D18APPKAREDW HOW HE PAID HIS SUBSCRIPTION Bdltor Had Hli Feathers and Adams GaUed It Square. "I used to be in tho newspaper busi­ ness myself, iq. a sort of way," said Col. Moses Taylor of Atlanta, Ga., as he puffed a big black cigar in the Con­ tinental hotel lobby. "It was a good many years ago, though; shortly after the war. The natives of the little town where I was running the Weekly Guide, didn't al­ together appreciate my efforts, prob­ ably because I had some Union ideas that didn't strike them favorably. "About 4 o'clock one morning a masked mob routed me out and gave me a dose of tar and feathers. For­ tunately there didn't seem to be so rnuc'u Iar da fcatuciS, uut I nai> iu £ pretty bad mess at that I made my way back to the shack that by courtesy I called my office, locked the door and started to clean up. "ir%as slow work, and after about three hours had passed an old cracker named Adams came along and began to pound on the door. I stuck my head out of the window and asked him his business. " 'Mistah Taylah,' he said, 1 owe you $2 suh, foh a yeah's subscription to yo' pa pah.' "'All right; I'll be right down,' I said. "'Hoi' on, suh,' he continued, with a grin. 'I have reason to believe, suh, that the gentlemen that gave you a dose of tar and feathers this mawnin' took a mattress from my clothesline. I value that mattress at mo' than $2, suh,. but since you already have the feathers, I am willing to call It square, suh.' "Shortly after that," concluded the colonel, according to the Philadelphia Record, "I quit the newspaper busi­ ness and started to study law." --K&ip&aUufag AtMcfieb Leti TeSSV" Shipbuilding in the latter half of 1901 was active, according to the Unit ed States bureau of navigation, the product being 717 vessels of 154,073 tons, against 668 vessels of 179,229 tons in the latter half of 1900. These include 78,860 tons of wooden vessels and 78,213 tons of steam vessels. The building on the Atlantic and gulf sea­ board was 84,347 tons, while the great lakes built 45,855 tons and the Pacific coast built 18,211 tons. The total in­ cludes thirty-eight vessels of over 1,000 tons each. Four per cent of sailing vessels and per cent of steamships are lost in a year. California Farm Machinery. In no locality has modern steam farming machinery been applied with such effectiveness as upon the grain ranches in southern California. On one ranch the engine used to draw the machinery is of fifty horse power, and has drive wheels eight feet high. It consumes twelve barrels of oil every day, and its operation requires the ser­ vice™ of seven men. Tn nlowinsr. flftv- flve furrows are turned over at one time, covering i breadth of forty feet Nlness of Many Months Re­ sults Fatally, Though Death Was Unexpected* • * HELfr POST FOURTEEN YfcARS Demise Comes as a Shock to Official Washington--Diplomat Genial and Popular with All Classes--His Ca- rser J4ad Been a Distinguished One. Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador to the United States, died at the em­ bassy at Washington May 24. The improvement which had been noted In his condition during the past week re­ ceived a sudden check about 6 o'clock the previous evening, when it was no­ ticed that he was experiencing dif­ ficulty In breathing. . Dr. Jung, his physician, was immediately sent for, and he decided upon a consultation with a local physician, in the mean­ time telegraphing for Dr. Osier of Baltimore. In his stead came Dr. Thayer of Jtohns Hopkins university. The patient's pulse was still good, and when Dr. Thayer left the embassy at Lord Pauncefote. S o'clock for Baltimore the ambassador was resting so comfortably that a ca­ blegram was sent to his son-in-law, Mr. Bromley, in L/ondon, that there was no immediate danger. Soon after 3 o'clock a distinct weak­ ness of the heart developed and his pulse began to collapse. He died so peacefully that It surprised even his physician, who feared that the asthmatic affection would prove trou­ blesome when the end came. As soon as it became generally known that Lord Pauncefote was dead flags were half-masted over the dif­ ferent embassies and legations. At the Arlington hotel, where the visit­ ing Frenchmen who have come to wit­ ness the Rochambeau statue unveiling are stopping, the French flag was placed at half-mast Julian Pauncefote was the third son of the late Robert Pauncefote of Pres­ ton Court, Gloucestershire, England, and was born at Munich, Germany, in 1828. He was educated in Paris, Ge­ neva and at Marlborough college. He studied for the bar,. to which he was called, at the Inner Temple, in 1852, and joined the Oxford circuit While practicing in England he was knight­ ed. In 1865 he was appointed attor­ ney-general of Hongkong and he acted as chief justice of the Supreme court of that colony in 1869 and again in 1872. The executive and legislative councils of Hongkong passed a vote of thanks to him for his services to the colony. In 1873 he was made chief justice of the Leeward islands, and In 1874 he was appointed legal assist­ ant under secretary of state for the colonies. Two years later he was giv­ en the same relative position in the foreign office, and in 1882 he succeeded Lord Tenterden as permanent secre­ tary of state for foreign affairs. In 1889 Lord Pauncefote, then known as Sir Julian Pauncefote, came to the United States to take the place of Lord Sackville as British minister. In 1893 he was raised to the rank of ambassa­ dor and in 1894 he was sworn as a member of the privy council. Lord Pauncefote was regarded as an able and tactful diplomat. He was in Washington during the critical period of the Venezuelan controversy in 1895, when a clash between Great Britain and the United States was narrowly averted. It was he who spoke for the foreign ambassadors In an offer of the good services of their countries to mediate with Spain and prevent the war over Cuba. For this act Lord Pauncefote was severely criticised In gome quarters aud it was said he felt the criticism keenly and that it was one of the causes of his fatal illness. Lord and Lady Pauncefote were the center of the diplomatic "-sefln Wash­ ington and their home was the scene of many brilliant meetings of the lead­ ing officials of the capital. Mrs. Pauncefote was born in India. She is gifted as a social leader. Four daugh­ ters were born of the union. Why KspeelaUy He? At a committee meeting of the Har­ vard Musical Association some years ago, one of the members said that he saw a piece of music in Ditson's win* dow entitled "Give My Chewing. Gum to Gerty." It was a minute or two after the laugh which followed this announcement had subsided when the venerable Prof. John S. Dwight, now several years dead, looked up, and with wrinkled brow, as one struggling with a mystery, asked: "But why espe­ cially to Goethe?"--Boston Transcript A Happy Family of a Rare Sort* There is a man in Topeka, Kan., who ought to be made commander-in- chief of the American army. He has two married sons and two married daughters. 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