GREAT VOLCANIC OUTBURST.
MONT PELEE ACTIVE
THE ERUPTION’AT MARTINIQUE
OVER THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE PERISH.
SAINT PIERRE AFLAME
DESCRIBED AS A GLIMPSE OF lIELL.
SHOWERS OP INCANDESCENT LAVA.
COAST LINE ENVELOPED IN DARKNESS FOR FIVE MILES.
ATMOSPHERE A MASS OF CIN-
DERS AND SULPHUR
SYMPATHY WITH FRANCE
By Telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. NEW YORK, May 10.
Further details received concerning ,the volcanic eruption at Martinique, one of the West India Islands, belonging to the Lesser Antilles, a French colony, show that the appalling affair is far more disastrous than was at first thought to be the case. It is now estimated that fully thirty ■thousand people perished, the number including the Governor, M. Mouttet.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 413, 12 May 1902, Page 2
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