THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. IT RAINED FIRE. Terrific Volcanic Eruption In Martinique. THIRTY THOUSAND DEAD Reported Destruction of St. Pierre Is Confirmed. STALLS OF AWFUL CATASTROPHE Twelve Survivor Only llfmnl More Than ilO.OOO Dweller. of In the III In led Town llrart rc ii ill nit Sliihtn. TOUT IK rilANCK. Island of Mnr tlnlue. May 1.1.- to now seems to be generally admitted that about 30,(HK) persons lost their lives as a result of the outbreak of the Mont I'elee volca no nt St. rierre on Thursday last. Care ful investigation by competent govern ment olllclals shows that the earlier re ports were accurate. ltrlefly put. in ten minutes last Thurs day uioruitiK the city of St. l'lerre dis appeared In a whirling fire vomited front Mont Pelee. and Ijn.txx) persons Were Instantly and horribly killed, and the volcano, which for more than fifty years had been a quiet hike occupying its ancient crater, in which picnic par ties bathed, suddenly discharged tor rents of fiery mini which rolled townrd the sea, sweeping everything before it. Then the Inst cable communication was broken, and the doomed city was Isolated from the world. The coinmnnder of the French cruis er Suehet gave the American consul at Guadeloupe, IjouIs 11. Ayine, the first news of the appalling disaster the fliiy after it occurred. Mr. Ayme has reached the desolate spot where St. Ilerre stood and confirms the awful ifory in all its essential features. Twelve survivors only ore in the mil itary hospital at F'ort de France, while BO.IKH) corpses are strewn about or bur led In the ruins of St. l'lerre or else floating, cuawcd by sharks, In the sur rounding seas. Twenty-eight charred, half dead human beings were brought here. Sixteen of them are already dead, and four others only are expected to recover. A steamer chartered in Guadeloupe reached Martinique at C:30 Sunday morning. The lofty hilled island was hidden behind a huge veil of violet or leaden colored haze. Enormous quan tities of the wreckage of large and imnll ships and houses were met with. Huge trees and too often floating bod ies, with flocks of sea gulls soaring abate aud hideous sharks fighting about litem, were floating here and there. From behind the volcanic veil came blasts of hot wind mingled with Others Ice cold. At r Freeheur, five miles north of Bt. Pierre, canoes with men and worn m, frantic to get away, begged for a Jin usage on the steamer. The whole north' end of the Island Was covered with a silver gray coat ing of ashes resembling dirty snow. Furious blasts of fire, ashes und mud twept over the steamer, but finally St. Ilerre was reached. The city of St. Pierre stretched near ly two miles along the water front and half a mile buck to a cliff at the base of the volcano. The bouses of the richer French families were built of stone, the ush covered hills were flanked by the still smoking volcano. The ruins were still burning in many places, and frightful odors of burned flesh filled the air. With great difliculty a landing Was effected. Not one house was left Intact. Everywhere were viscid heaps of mud, of brighter ashes or piles of Volcanic stones. The streets could hardly be traced. Here and there amid the ruins were bips of corpses. Almost all the faeea Were downward. In one comer twenty two men, women and children were lulngled in one uwful muss, urms and Iocs protruding as the hapless beings full in the lust struggle of death's agony. Through the middle of the old Place Benin run a tiny stream, the remains Of the river Goyuve. Greut trees, with roots upwurd and scorched by fire, were strewn in every direction. Huge blocks and still hot stones wero scat tered about. From under one large tone the arm of a white woman pro traded. Most notable was the utter alienee and the awful, overpowering tench from the thousands of dead Careful Inspection showed that the fiery stream which so completely de atroyed St. Pierre must huve been com. posed of poisonous gases, which in atantly suffocated every one who In haled them, and of other gases burning furiously, for nearly all the victims had their bunds covering their mouths or were in some other attitude showing that tbey had sought relief from sullo cation. All the bodies were carbonized or rousted. ST. VINCENT'S DEATH LIST. The United States government tug Potomac will Inll for St. Vincent, where conditions are reported to be worse. Im Soufrlere, on St. Vincent, was in full eruption May JO. A stream of stmie and mud half a mile wide was then Issuing from the volcano, Stones two Inches In dlumeter fell- twelve miles away. At Kingstown, the capital of the island, the ashes were two Indi es deep. Seven hundred deud were re ported Sunday, May 11. It la estimated that the total number of deaths on St, Ttnrrnt renoliPK 2.000. Mont of the yc tlms nro until to bo Cm-lb Indians. Sev en t'Ktntes oti tlie I win ml have been burned to nshea, und It Is nntheiitlcnlly reported that two eurthiiuiikes occurred there. It Is believed the Mibttmrlne ca bles In St. Vincent have been broken by the disturbances. The present vol canic eruption on St. Vincent Is the Urst since 1812. The northern section bf the Island Is depopulated. 1'rovlHlons are needed here for 100, OOU yeuple immediately. A shipload wf tm tt nlso needed at St. l'lerre for unitary purposes. The stench there from the dead bodies Is overpowering. Mont l'clce Is still erupting smoke and fire. SrlMnlc nintnrhnnrM In Alentlnnn. SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. The Alaska Commercial company has re ceived from Its agent at Unalaskn, Aleutian Islands, n letter, dated April 10, giving information of volcanic dis turbances In that section. The letter says: "Unalaska has been shaken tip by earthquakes lately, and on several Occasions the ground was covered with fine ashes from some volcano. Reports leach us from Vnimak to the effect that with every westerly wind their village Is covered with some kind of ashes, indicating that some western volcano Is in action." Stranffe Phenomenon In Dominion. ST. THOMAS, Danish West Indies, May 12. A dispatch Just received here from the Island of Dominica, llrltlsh West Indies, says thnt a man who has Just returned from the boiling lake dis trict of the island went within a hun dred yards of the lake and found that the water had disappeared and that from a vent ten feet In diameter In the center was arising a column of steam to a height of thirty feet before spread ing Into the atmosphere. That district Otherwise was apparently unchanged, but the sulphur gases were very strong. NOVELIST MURDERED. I'uul Ford Shot hy Urol her, Who Alio KIIIk Hlnmelf. NEW YORK, May O.-Paul Leicester '"ord, the celebrated novelist, was shot and killed in his home at 33 East Sev-Dnty-seventh street yesterday afternoon by his brother, Malcolm Webster Ford, the uthlete, who then committed sui cide. The brothers had been enemies for eleven years, since the death of their father, Gordon L. Ford of Brooklyn, who left an estate valued at $2,000,000 to all of his children save Malcolm, whom he disinherited because of his connection with athletic sports. Paul Leicester Ford was one of the best known novelists in the country. Ilia novel, "Janice Meredith," enjoyed u remarkable sale and Is still consider ed a productive piece of property. In Its dramatized form it was a great suc cess and was played throughout the country, with Mary Munnering In the star part. Mr. Ford before his success with Janice Meredith" turned out n his torical novel, "The Hon. Peter Ster ling," that was also a great success. He was the author of many other works, several plays and had arranged for the publication of a new novel in the near future. Because of his physical deformity Mr. Ford was more or less of a hermit. He Buffered a great deal, and, consid ering his handicaps, the amount of work he performed was wonderful. It Is said that he had the finest private library in New York packed away in vaults in the old family residence on Brooklyn Heights. BASEBALL. Standing of the Clubs In National and American League. NATIONAL LEAGUE. W. Li. P.c. Ml .611 .671 .474 .450 .409 .350 .318 P.C. .667 .625 .600 .588 .500 .413 .3M .278 Pittsburg- 19 3 hhicaKO 11 7 ew lorK 12 9 oaton 9 10 hlludelphia 11 Brooklyn 9 13 Bt. LouIh 7 13 Cincinnati 7 15 AMERICAN LEAGUE. W. L, ft Louts 10 hlladelohia 10 Detroit ... Boston 10 I'hlratfO 8 Baltimore , 7 7 8 10 11 13 Washington 7 Cleveland 6 More Ilnaalan Riot. ST. PETERSBURG, May 14.-Serf- ous Russlun Easter riots have occurred In the province of Kuban, north Cau casia, between Russians and Arme nians. The latter were outnumbered und routed. The Russians then stoned the houses of the Armenians and pil laged their shops. The Armenians would undoubtedly huve been massa cred but for the timely arrival of troops. Many arrests were made. Bon of Late Knrl 1,1 Dead. TOKYO, via Victoria. B. C, May 14. The death Is announced at Peking after a long illness of Marquis Li, the oldest son and heir of the late first mar quis, Li Hung Chang, at the age of for ty. He died of diphtheria and leaves a son aged twenty-one to inherit the title and vast wealth left by the first mar quis. Before Inheriting the title the last Marquis LI was known as Li Ching She. It is reported that Field Marshul Murquls Salgo Is seriously ill. I'realdent I.onhet Off For Ruaala. PARIS, May W. President Loubet, who is on Ills way to visit the czar of Russia, left here for Brest last evening from the Depot St. Lazare. He ar rived at Brest this morning, and the French cruiser Montcalm, which is to take the president to Russia, will leave that port ut 5 o'clock this afternoon. Aeronaut Killed In Pari. PARIS, May 12. The airship belong ing to Senhor Augusto Severo, the Bra zilian aeronaut, made un ascension this morning. The airship exploded, and Severo and one of his assistants were killed. WEST INDIAN RELIEF Government and Citizens Join In the Work. THE DIXIE LOADING IN SUPPLIES. FrelnVa( Name Committor to Ite celve Panda to Alleviate DUtrea of (lie Snrvlvor. of the Vol eanlc t'phearnl. WASHINGTON, May 14.-From this point on the war and navy depart ments have decided to divide the work of West Indian relief between them so as to give the navy full charge of the general subject of transportation and intrust the war department with the accumulation of the supplies. Of the little fleet of naval colliers which was placed at the disposal of the relief workers by Admiral Bradford, the Leonidas, which Is now discharg ing her ciirgo of coal at Port Royal, has been selected as the most suitable one to dispatch to Martinique, and orders have gone forward to load her with supplies and get her under way as soon ns possible. The question of charter ing merchant vessels to carry supplies to the desolate Island has now arisen, but will depend upon the extent of the voluntary contributions asked for by the president and upon the further re ports of the situation In the island. A telegram was received from the Dixie sliylng that she was at pier 15, Brooklyn, loading the supplies of food and clothing which have been so dili gently gathered by the army otllcers In charge of that work. She probably will be able to get under way for Marti nique during the day. Offers of assistance, for the Marti nique sufferers continue to pour in. Dr. Louis Klopsch, proprietor of The Christian Herald, New York, telegraph ed the war department offering to fur nish fifty nurses, thirty male and twen ty female, and 1,000 barrels of flour for the stricken Islands, to bo contrib uted by The Christian Herald. The president has appointed a com mittee to receive funds for the relief of the sufferers from the recent catas trophes in Martinique and St. Vincent. The men appointed from each city are asked to collect und receive the funds from their localities nnd neighborhoods as expeditiously as possible and for ward them to Cornelius N. Bliss, treas urer of the New York committee, which committee will act as the cen tral distributing point for the country. Hnlf a Million Voted. WASHINGTON, May 14.-An addi tional appropriation of $300,0(10 was made by the senate for the stricken people of the French West Indies, In accordance with the recommendation of the president that $500,000 be ap propriated. The agricultural appropria tion bill was passed, and then Mr. Stewart (Xev.) In supporting the Phil ippine bill warned the minority that no political gain would accrue to them from their attack on the army. Clin (Tee Send Report. WASHINGTON, May 14.-General Chaffee has made the following cable report to the war department of the progress of the negotiations with the dattos in Mindanao: "Been here past three days studying situation with Brigadier General George W. Davis. Think two battalions should remain if they can be supplied. Gcnassl trail very dillicult, but another trail prom ises much better. Think withdrawal from lake would seriously Jeopardize safety weaker dattos. Would have giv en friendly assistance, but believe that If we remain the more powerful dattos will come in when It Is apparent our mission Is friendly. The lake country is beautiful nnd more suitable for the oc cupancy of Americans than any part of archipelago. Elevation, soil, climate perfect, comparing favorably with any valley of the Alleghunles." Lieutenant Governor Stone Dead. WATERTOWN, Wis., May 12.-Lieu-tennnt Governor Stone of Wisconsin died here lust night after a lingering illness from cancer of the stomach. Mr. Stone spent some time in the south, hoping to get relief, but without avail. On his return -he underwent an opera tion in a Chicago hospital, where the real cause of his trouble was ascer tained. After the operation he was re moved to bis home in Wutertown, and death hud been expected for severul days. Joe Oan the Champion. FORT ERIE. Out., May 13. Joe Guns, the Baltimore lightweight pugil ist, is champion In his class at last, aft er knocking at the door for the past ten years. Frank Erne lost last night a fight which was a decisive tussel, al though of very brief duration. The end came with startling suddenness. The men were scarcely warmed up when Guns, trying cautiously, caught Erne napping and lauded the knockout blow. Dead at the Age of 111. ST. JOHN, N. B., May 12.-Word has been received here of the deuth nt St. Martins, N. B., of James Ross, who was 111 years old. On the occasion of tils one hundred und tenth birthday the municipal council of St. John coun ty presented him with au easy chair. Well Known School to t'loae. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., May O.-The Delaware Literary institute at Frank lln, N. Y., one of the oldest educational institutions In the state, has decided to close Its doors owing to lack of liuuu cial support. Mra. Deulaon 'Klevted Trealdeut. LOS ANGELES, Cul.. Muy D.-Mrs. Dinilcs T. S. Denlson was elected pres ident of the General Federation of Wo men's Clubs by a ballot vote of 007 to 258 for Mrs. Suruu liutt-Decker. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Ratnhte Kvrnt of the Wrrtt IlrleHy nnd Tersely Told. The rebels In the Chinese province af Chill were defeated after severe lighting, and their leaders were cap tured. Starring Russian peasants are flock i'ig to Moscow by thousands. The win ter sowings In Baltic provinces have been damaged by drought and frost. The final distribution of the Fair es tate was ordered by the California court. By it the children of the de cedent will receive about $7,000,000 ud dHloual. TnoRdny, Mny 1,1. Ellas Brewer, chief iff the Brewer fypsy tribe, died In Coney Island, N, Y. Thirteen persons were killed In a landslide at Maroln, province of Em ilia, Italy. A combination of steel casting firms was organized nt Chester, Pa., with 140,000,000 capital. The Charleston exposition art owards were made by Jury. - Many New York ers received honors. Civil war was begun In Haiti over the succession to President Sam. Se vere fighting is reported in streets of Tort au Prince. The extensive planing mills, lumber sheds and dry kilns of the Southern States Lumber company at Muscogee, Flu., with about 000,000 feet of lumber, Were burned. Monday, May 12. President Elect Palmu was welcom ed to Havana with great enthusiasm. General C. H. T. Collls of New York died In Bryn Mawr (Pa.) hospital after an operation. At Purls Tom Linton, the English cyclist, broke the world's record for the distance covered in one hour on a bicycle. General Chaffee has arrived at Mala bang, Island of Mindanao, where he was met by General Davis, and sturt cd for the Interior. Generals Simon Snyder and William Auman, recently appointed brigadier generals, have been placed on the re tired list after forty years' service. Sntnrilny, Mny lO. The president signed the oleomarga rine bill. President Sam of the republit of ILnitl has resigned ills olllce. Wllhelmlna was reported much Im proved and nblc to sign state papers. Earthquake shocks were felt at va rious places on the southeastern coast of Spain. The Roeblings of Trenton plan to build a million dollar steel mill In East St. Louis. A heavy snowstorm occurred In the Adirondack region about Lake Sura nac, also in the northwest. Friday, Mny O. Over $10,000,000 worth of gold bear ing dirt was ready for washing at Dawson. A British officer and ten men were killed by a train wreck In the northern Transvaal. Swan & Finch's oil plant at Eliza bethport, N. J., was destroyed by fire; loss, $100,000. Judge Earle as referee has declared the New York state franchise tax law constitutional. Thuraday, Mny 8. Japan's Issue of $5,000,000 exchequer bills was coldly received In Yokohama. The Boer siege of the town of O'oklep, in Cape Colony, was raised by a Brit ish force under Colonel Cooper. The appellate division nt Albany unanimously afllrmed the conviction of Police Captain Diamond in New York city. The five rousted ship Preussen, said to be the largest sailing ship in the world, was launched at Geestemunde, Trussla. Preparing? For Alfonao'a Coronation MADRID, Muy 14. The streets of this city are assuming gulu attire. A large section of the route to be followed by the procession next Saturday, the day of the coronation of King Alfonso, huslieen hung with festoons of foliage and flowers among which are hidden multicolored electric lumps. Trlunv phal arches are being constructed along the line of march, but this work la be ing done In a leisurely manner, Vene tian masts from which flout banners of the national colors have been erected In the central square at the Puerta del Sol and In the principal thoroughfares. A number of private houses have been tastefully adorned with devices of ev ergreens. Many foreigners are arrlv Ing. Falma and Wood to Confer. HAVANA, May 14. Governor Gen oral Wood and President Elect Palma have arrunged to hold dally confer ences in the palace here until next Saturday. These meetings will take place at 2 o'clock. Governor General Wood, Senor Falma and Gonzalez de Quesada visited the public buildings of Havana. Salvador Clsueros and the president elect were together for two hours. Frenchmen Mob Barauai'a stiov BEZIERS, France, May 12.-Rurnuni & Bailey's circus was tlie cause of a se rlous riot here. The crowd seeking ad. mission to the performance was great er than the tent could accommodate, and those who were unable to enter began stoning the circus employees. five of whom were injured. One man had his skull fructured and will proba bly die. The crowd numbered about 7,000. Queen Wlllirlmlmi Murh Better. THE HAG IE, Muy 14. It is on nounccd from Castlo Loo that the con dition of Queen Wilhelmlna continues to Improve. It Is understood that with the departure of Dr. Roesslughs the bulletins concerning her majesty's health will be discontinued. Messages congratuluting her mujesty upon her Improvement huve been received from all the foreign courts. 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