VOLCANIC OUTBURST.
PANIC STRICKEN PEOPLE BECOME INSANE By Telegraph—Press Association—• Copyright. NEW YORK, May 23. Chancelle, an official, ascended 1233 metres up Mount Pelee on Friday, and found tlie crater 300 metres in diameter. Tlie peak Morne Lacroix is undermined, and the whole aspect is terrifying. Although Fort de France is not threatened , tlie panic continues-. A number of people became insane and threw themselves into the sea, dreading fresh cataclysms. The inhabitants of the Grand Hivere are still isolated, and it is impossible to aid them. Mount Pelee is vomiting yellow rushing whirlwinds of smoke and gas. Tiie pulverisation of tlie basalt tower of the Cathedral at St. Pierre, and the overthrow of the houses, indicates that blazing gas of incalculable force accompanied the eruption. FLEEING FROM MARTINIQUE. Received 5.11 p.m., May 25, By telegraph—Press AssociationCopyright. LONDON, May 24.Six thousand people have quitted Martinique. Thousands have gone to the extreme south of the Island.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 425, 26 May 1902, Page 2
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