THE ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 110, 16 May 1902, Page 2

THE ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

AN AWFUL POSSIBILITY. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. New York M«y 14. Professor H#ilprin, of Ne* York, suggests that the island* are likely to collapse if 'he eruptions continue, . America is sending rations sufficient for 40,000 people for a fortnight, also quantities of clothes and m*(Ho<l ooa* forts.

BAN FRIBRK AND MONT FSI.IB BTILL ACTIVE. Beoeired I£, 7.18 p.M. NEW YOBK, M 7 14. The rain of 6m ce»B°d two liotidr >d yards short of Lo Car bet. Two thousand dead have be n foind at St. Vincent, mostly Caribi. A strewn of stones and onu', half a a mile wide, was issuing from San Friere on the 10th. Two heavy earthquakps and several lighter shocks hive occurred at St. Thomas, a Danish West Indit island 350 mile* fr >m Martinique Mont Pel&< is still erupting tmoke and fire. Only those fugitives from St. Pierre who loft prior to eight o'clock o» 1 hurtday morning were stved.

; THE RUIN ON ST. VINCENT. > ERUPTIOVB SUBSIDING. Received 16. 0.19 a.m. Loxaon, May 15. Official accounts state that the i northern aid e s'ern districts of Bt. i Vincent are devastated. All tbe inhabitants within a radius 1 of the Chateau Kclair and Georgetown are killed, ar>d -ill the best m'&tes are ruined. N • thing green is visible. Four feet of aslms covers tbe ground, and the rivers are 'ry. A thousand hive been interred, including many whites. Tbe exact numbers of the billed will never be known. Many were struck by lightning. - Two thousand persons are reoeiving relief. The eruption is now mode af.ing. MO NX PELEE'H AWFUL BTHSAI4 OF DEATH. Received 16, 0.?4 a.m. Loudon, May 15, The Gov.ri or ; f B.ri>d.> s. ouip->i< a tbe erupted mu f "r (mm M' - t P.-I4* with boiling se*H ■; wax. It. d. xtroyed everything ov. r an area of <• u milts jluDg and tix wide. I It is estimated tbnt t«o mi'lion *oni [ (if dust fell f>n Barbadocp. I When disioteired from th-> cinders tbe corpses of the victim were b)aek

fcnd shiny, so if they bad been is boiling pitch. WAIMANGU QKTBER ACTIVE. Auckland, May 15. The Waimangu geyser at Rotorua played to a magnificent height yesterday, throwing stones right over the surrounding hills. This was one of the highest bursts seen for Home time.