THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 15, 1902 ST. PIERRE DESTROYED The Entire City Has Been Buried Under Burning Lava, NOT A HOUSE LEFT STANDING Residents Were Roasted to Death in the Fiery Deluge. 40,000 ARE DEAD ON MARTINIQUE Northeastern Portion of Lald Waste, The Entire and Three St Lava the Island Large Towns, Exclusive of Pierre, Have Been Destroyed Continues Pouring Down Mountain Slopes, Threatening the North Side of Martinique. suffocatic ceeded | making shore, nearing the to enable her of the ribly at ti 1 waste co whose decom SOME Cases eremation accomplis: in St City lizsanter whi The wers disaste ened an night and Brave Ped r, five mile with men begged for a Plerrs frantic to get sage on the steamer The city of St. Pi nearly two miles along front and half a mile back at the base of the volcano smoking volcano towered ash-covered hi The ruins were burning in many places, and frightful odors of burned flesh filled the With great difficulty a landing effected Not on¢ house was left intact. Viscid heaps of mud, of | er ashes or were CANROOR AWAY pas re stretched the water cliff still ton The above the Ils alr was right piles of voleanie soen on every hand. The conld hardly traced Hore and there amid ruins were heaps of corpaen, almost all being downward. In one corner 22 bodies of men, women and children were min gied In one awful mass, arms and legs protruding as the hapless beings fell in the last struggles of death's agony Through the middle of the old Place Bertin ran a tiny stream, the remains of the River Gayave. Great trees, with roots upward, and scorched by fire, were strewn In every direction. Huge blocks and still hot stones were scat tered about. From under one large stone the arm of a white woman pro truded. Most notable was the utter silence and the awful, overpowering stench from the thousands of dead, Careful Inspection showed that the flery stream which so completely de stroyed Bt Plerre must have been stones at reot be the the faces Entire | which who composed of polsonous gases, instantly suffocated one inhaled them, and of other gases burning furiously, ior neary ali victims had their hands covering their mouths in some other atti tude that they had sought relief from suffocation. All the bodies Oonlzed ated north of with a silver avery tia oor were showing were art or ro the gray irty snow ashes and mud but finally he whole end island covered cont of resembling fire, steamer, Plerre reached ‘he authorities are doing everything possible to relieve the suffering The | means at their hands are terribly in. | adequate Unless prompt measures are taken for the disposal of the thou | sands of dead St. Plerre a fearful plague is almost certain to de there Story of an Eye Witness. From the Ital p Ter goveral men were saved, but as! n blasts of the wns Irious swept over St at bodies Yeiop ian RUIN ON ST. of Loss tire Fan Life es Being Dead Has Occurred, RELIEFFORVOLCANOD SUFFERERS Prompt Assistance For Victims of the Martinique Disaster Washington The yesterday passed by an overwhelming | vote a bill granting $200 for the relief of the sufferers in the great ca | Iamity in the West Indies. The bill was a substitute for the relief measure passed by the and followed the receipt of a m« from the pres ident, setting forth magnitude of the calamity and urging that an appro priation of $50 1] made A spe cial meeting of the appropriation com mittee was held to facilitate action on the bill, and it reported the house within a sh after the receipt of the message Mr. Hemenway chairman of the appropriation ox plained that tha amount Hmited to $200,000 owing to the fact that large private being made The war and navy departments are making preparations to send relief to the volcano sufferers at Martinique The United States cruiser Dixie is be ing loaded with rice, dried fish, sugar, coffee, ete, and will also take medical supplies and clothing The Dixie Is expected to sall from New York to morrow evening. The navy depart ment Is preparing two water barges, capable of holding 550,000 gallons, to be rushed to the stricken Island, and the war department will gend 500,000 May house | O00 aenate MNARO the be wan ort president's the to time acting committee, Wan contributions were soldiers’ rations from Porto Rico, ENVELOPED IN” FLAMES Explosion of Naphtha Cars Brought Death to Onlookers. HUNDREDS While Crowds of People Were Watch ing a Fire, Car Exploded, and Those | | | INJURED | Nearest Were Killed-——~Sewers Filled With Burning OIl, Pittsburg, May 13 The yards of the P Handle railroad the scene last of of the ions and fires Any years an avening trous explo Known in this section for m one most disas rony two years in the Walter Dorman. a Biddle pating in the murder of Kahney on Mount was aentenced to Dorman materially alded ing the Bi and in the sentence death to that of life imprison od to partici Groce gang. who confes rYman Washington street death hanging convict by in all probability will be changed iment idles r Convict Dies of Opium, Trenton, N. J May 13 Bot an inmate of the state prison, was found coll yonator In his found 20 opium pills Keaper Oshourne made an investiga tion and reached the conclusion that Somers had died from an overdose of oplun acted as a nurse in the prison houpital, and it is presumed that he took the opium from the prison apothecary, to whom he would go for medicine for sick prisoners Blackman New dead pocket State era Jersey in his wor Prison iny ' Boomers Quarrel May Cause Two Deaths. Harrisburg, Pa, May 12. Alexander Newton, white, shot and seriously wounded Wiilis Jones, colored, yester day morning in a quarrel in a boarding house over the theft of a revolver. Jones cut Newton's throat razor, and both men are in a serious condition. The trouble was started by Newton aceusing Jones of stealing the weapon with a' Sheraden | Was about | Blood. We it. ir blood and on Whi I y cheer, 17 LDIERTISEMENTS R.B. MONTGOMERY. We Don't Promise More Than We Give You, But-- We Give You All we Promise ne IN LINE OF wmmumn Wall Paper, House Painting, Paper Hanging, Graining, Etc, R. B, MONTGOMERY, NK. W. Corner Public Square BELLEFONTE,........PENN'A, Centre County Banking Co. Oorner High and pring Ktreots, RECHIVE Ditrosrrs; Discoust Noss JOM SHUGGRRT, Cashier, MEN'S & BOYS’ Bl are now ready ; also c HOME ue Serge Suits ur SPUNS in NORFOLK COATS and PANTS. rs —————. FANCY SUI STILL Youths The New Manhattan The New dJanama Hats “White lige Shirts this (Grand Army Suits seems to TS A GREAT Clothing Shirts Monarch Shirts and Straw Hats be t Season. Specialty MontcgomERY & Co New Storeroom, New Stock, New Ideas. ans a tearing out, shaking up, a ith it New Impulses, New Ideas and New Efforts to supply the wants of general clearing COMmMoes the trade. This you to pay us a visit, i8 We proud of our new store and if are you call yon will understand that we are dete rimmed to keep up with the times and main. tain the reputation of being the leaders in our line, Yours truly, McCalmont & Co Bush Arcade, Bellefonte, Pa. PROF. J. ANGEL .AN EXPERT... SS Eye Specialist i f Williamsport, will make his monthly visit here ONE DAY ONLY Wed., May 28th » por aT a neagquarte Garman House Bellefonte, Pa. Hl destroy } Han ch your CAD LIASSOS " rt time the has been visiting this section, with marked success. Scores of leading citizens of this commu. nity have found relief from his | treatment. It is not necessary to | travel to Eastern cities for treat. | ment when yon can consult an emi. | nent oculist at home. | DON'T. It your eyes arc caus. ing trouble—vition imperfect— you aggravate the trouble » delay, and may permanently impair your sight. Don’t delay to consult a Reliable Oculist, and none can be too good. has mes ————— Will be at HOWARD on Tuesday, May 27th,
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