WEST INDIES DISASTER.
50,000 HOMELESS PEOPLE AT ST. VINCENT. By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May 18. Iheie are fifty thousand homeless people at St. Vincent. The Lord Mayor’s fund for the relief of the sufferers has reached £22,000. It includes donations from Mr Carnegie of £IOOO, and from the Prince and Princess of Wales of £250.
THE DESTITUTION. ERUPTIONS BECOMING WORSE. A SHARP WALL OF FLAME. - By telegraph—Press Association— Copyright NEW YORK, May 19. The injured at St. Vincent number three thousand^ The destitution is appalling. There were • fifteen violent.' detouavivid lightning at Martinique cni* Saturday, q'fie eruptions are becoming worse..
New craters have appeared in the neighborhood of Le Precheur. the Mayor of Trinite declares that the wall of flame on the Bth was so sharply defined that a bull grazing on the edge of its track was roasted on one side, and not a hair singed on the other.
Northern residents of the Island who took refuge on the southern part are returning to their homes notwithstanding the danger. Internal rumblings were heard at Fory de France on Saturday^
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2
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180WEST INDIES DISASTER. Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 420, 20 May 1902, Page 2
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