ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.
IVHABITAhiy PANIC-STKICKEN. PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. New York. May 21. A tenibrj parrc occurr-d at Fort de Francf. Twenty thousand peDple ran about distracted, kneeling a»d praying in the e'reets. Many fled to Guad;l.upe. j; Liva from Mont Pelee is issu-ng i.-. grei' vo'iiai--. T'.e eruptiuii en L Bth ovi-rwiu lined Grand Riviere. Thnj it habitat's ire still in th* yreat-st dangir, .-ince all meats of *r importation bav« beon dt-stroyed.
FOKTHBR ERUPTIONS AT ST, VINCENT.
Received 23, 0.52 a.m. New York, May 22, The los< of property, crops, and live stock at St. Vincent amounts to a quarter of a million sterling. La Souffriere was again iu active eruption on Sunday and Monday, and the adjoining districts trembled. Shocks ware felt at Kingstown, and a den'e cloud overhangs the Island, Business is at a standstill. A rumour that the extinct crater of Mount Enchain, a mountain six miles from Kingstown, was active, increased tbe alarm amongst residents.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 May 1902, Page 3
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160ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 May 1902, Page 3
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