ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 121, 24 May 1902, Page 3

ERUPTIONS AT MARTINIQUE.

APPALLING Bu SUBLIME SIGHTS. PJSB PBESa ASSOCIATION. New York, May 22. Mo lit Pe'ee on Tuesiay »lected a column of vokauic matter and rained red hot boulders on tha ruins of St. Pitrre and ne ghb urhood, 'l'he sun lit up the voicanic clouds at Fort de France till they resembled melt n metal, making ao appalling but sublimi: sight. H o: es and ashe3 fell on the towD, and a lic'al wave entered the bay, and b.oke the shipping moorings. The prople fled to the hills, while otheis latar on took r.fuge on thu warships. Tue sea invadtd find part'y destroyfd Li Oarbac. A cyclone of lira simult<ne,usly descended on Le Oaibat. Two tundied and forty people were conveyed theuce and from adjacent villag's to Fort de Fiance. Fi-e and smoke have appeared on a pea* on the Istat Diamond llock, south-west of Martin que. Continuous sharp shocks were felt at Flerida on Tuesday.

French p p : rs report rurnbl ngs in an extinct crater south of Au'un.

[A.u.un is a town iu thu department of Sjo"e-ei-L jii(, iu tiie middle of France,]

EVACUATION OP" MARTINIQUE sUGGKSTKD. Received 23, 10.35 p.m. Pauis, Miy 23. Che population of Martinique u,re dainouii'iy for removal, and M. De-cr.-jii«, Minister ft r >0 Colonies, has inquired from tt.e Ac.iug-Goveruo: ai to the expediency of a partial or entire evacuation of the island. A transport service is being organised, EARLIER DISASTERS. (Per R.M.S. Senooti at Auckland.) San Francisco, May 1. Quesaltenango, in Guatemala, was completely des royed by earthquake on April 18th. It is believed five hundied people were killed. Large districts were devasta ed. Amatitlan, formerly a town of ten thousand inhabitant, ex:B>s no more as a town. The destruction extend d one hundred miles along the western part of the Republic. There havu been serious seismic disturbances along the Cordilleras, affecting towns and villages between Quesaltrnango, the second city of Guatemala, and Amatitlan. There were slight disturbances at Guatemala cit), but no disasters, It is estimated a million dollars' worth of damage to property wos don.j at Ixpachult, a Mexican town near the Guatemalan frontier. Qutsalteuango was a hand-somely-built, well-p.ved city, with a richly-decorated cathedial and magnificent ciiy hail,

Mr D. Young, sou of a Belgrove (Nelson) resilient, was one of the victims of the Martinique disaster. News has been rtceived that all aboard the cable st.eamet Grappler, on which the young icat> wa* employed, peashed a'; the .iiu of t e nu oieak.