Volcanic Eruptions.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 209, 29 May 1902, Page 1

Volcanic Eruptions.

New Yobk, May 25 Lava streams imprison many women and children in the Grand Riviera. They are to be 3-en pleading for deliverance, but it is impossible t • lender ai 1. It is almost cel lain that they will he starved to death or overwhelmed with lavi. A great glimmer of I g'it was seen ia the direction of Martinique on Thursday night, accompanied b/ ag« dike explosion. A steamer fifty miles away wsa covered with ashe*. It is believed that a new crater has been formed on Morn* Pvle with a cinder cone a hundred feet high ejecting steam, mud, gases and ashes. The toirent of lava Iro n M one Pole on Saturday destroyed tha lemainlrr of Bass Public. M*j 26. A (i sure 10 0 yards long splits Morne Pt ie from peak to base.

Th:ec days after St, Pierre had beoo overwhelmed, a family of five per* ms was discovered alive in the ruins of a house. They were horribly burnt, and have since dh d. I: i-. feared that many otheis, iakinu refuge in the houses, Were buried bene ah the ashes, and ni'gbt have escaped if earlier help had bsen available. London, May 26. The Lord Mayor of London’s St. Vincent fund has reached £43,000. A further sum of £15,000 has been cabled to the Relief Committee. St. Petkrsbukg, May 26. The Czar has given £IO,OOO to the Martinique fund.