ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 22 May 1902, Page 3

ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

FURTHER CAHMrmia FEARKD. PER PRESS ASSOC ATION, T.ON'dov, M"V 20. CI ff a c hes obscure Fort du Frame a thi"k f™. New York, May 20. Vio'en f > surpassing tboso of thfl Bth infit.. wore heard nt S*. THomtg to dnyfrorri tbe direction of Martinique.

MONT PELEE AGAIN ACTIVE. A FLOOD IN MARTINIQUE. Becelveil 21, 10.45 p.n\ New York, Mav 21. The American warship Potomac landed a narty at Pt. Pierre and recovered the ConFul'* body. Mont Pelee suddenly into the sen, the "nip ion being accompanied by Wrifin and t.hurder. The party hurriedly escaped. The cruiser Indefatigable liko- ■ wise put to sea. A new township is Wins? established on St. Yinc nt, and .£50,000 is reqivr'd to nipro r t sufferers for six ' rtio';tVis Bnd ro-house th,-m in fresh loca'iti'ir" Thr> Lord Mavor of London has cabled a further £15,000. TH-'j niffering of 'be wounded from Tnn-.s was of a terrible n-itine. Sixty d°' ''V.s have occurred in the hosp'taK T!' :, avy rain mused the B'isse Point Bivnr, in Martinique, to overflow, and 'twenty houses were demolished and ; Sfty damaged. j Received 22,0.50 a.m. i A cinder cloud from Mount P<=lef I f,wept with terrible velocity over Fori j do France, dropping stones the size ol | hazel-nuts. Many res ; ;'< nts took ro- , fuge on the ships. The excitement has 1 gradually subsided. i'.". ..