THE LATEST REPORTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 414, 13 May 1902, Page 2

THE LATEST REPORTS.

THE FIRES GRADUALLY DYING

OUT.

Received 1 a.in.. May 13

NEW YuKK, May 12, : Less gloomy details are now being received. A LAST MESSAGE. Despite the engulfing of Guerin factory, the Governor of Maxtinique issued a report reassuring the residents o. St. Pierre, who' were overwhelmed next day. ENGLISHMEN RESCUED.

q welve Englishmen aboard the ste met Ronamia were rescued.

FIRE DYING OUT

The landing parties io mil that the fires were still burning at Saint Pierre but they were gradually dying out.

A HEAP OF RUINS

The whole place is a heap of ruins. There was no one found in it alive. The town was mutilated in such a way as to he beyond recognition.

A GRUESOME SIGHT. ’Three thousand charred corpses wet: found at the site of the -athedral. Th-

corpses were in many cases naked. Ali the victims had L-.-en asphyxiated, some while performing '.heir daily avo-

cations.

WHOLESALE CREMATION.

’lie wholesale cremation of bodies

imperative if a pestilence is to be prevented.

DISCOVERY OF SURVIVORS.

Many survivors have been discovered am-'ng the hills. Four hundred ani fifty people have been rescued. ST, VINCENT DIVIDED. Gteal streams of lava from Sau Friere separate the r.orthern and southern parts of the island of Saint .Vincent.

The bays have been converted into steaming pits.

A huge hill has been replaced by a valrey, Sixty people were killed by light-

REFUGEES DIE OF THIRST. Many refugees who succeeded in escaping along the coast in boats only survived to meet with a perhaps worse fate, dying from thirst, DESPATCH OF RELIEF, The French Government, the British authorities, and residents of the West Indies and of the City of Orleans have sent provisions and money for the relief of the sufferers.

SYMPATHY FROM THE KING

LONDON, May 12,

The British Ambassador at Pails has conveyed to M. Lou bet an expression of sympathy from His Majesty tiie King,

PROFESSOR THOMAS’ OPINION

NOT LIKELY TO AFFECT NEW, ZEALAND,

(Per Press Association,) AUCKLAND, last night. Interviewed by a New Zealand Herald reporter regarding the Martinique volcanic eruption, Professor Thomas, of »he Auckland University College, says he does not think there are any records to show that places so remote as New Zealand and West Indies would be simultaneously visited. They do no; lie on the same volcanic line, and the;« is no reason to fear that sympathy is likely to extend to the tine on which New Zealand lies. He would rather take the other view that where one ,’ine gives it would to a certain extent- relieve the pressure on the other lines. He does not think the present activity will extend to the volcanic sy.-tem of New Zealand,

SYMPATHY FROM NEW ZEALAN

(Per Press Association.). WELLINGTON, last night, the Government has cabled an *xpression of sympathy with the peoole of France concerning the Martinique disaster.