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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1902
Page
2
The schooner neared St Pierre Martinique when Mont Pelee erupted on May 8. Fire engulfed the town and ships including the Grappler as Ocean Traveller found wreckage on the way to Dominica. Destruction and loss spread through the harbor and surrounding cables.
The French cruiser Suchet reports St Pierre Martinique wiped out by a volcanic eruption with most inhabitants dead or displaced. Esk and Roraiman steamers observed ash, flames, and destruction from five miles away as night fell.
Governor Llewellyn reports no news from St Vincent and fears a serious Soufriere eruption after cables to Grenada and St Vincent are broken while en route to St. Lucia. The London colonial office receives the telegraph confirming disrupted communications.
Reports from Dominica say a schooner from Martinique notes that over 40,000 people are believed dead in the Mont Pelee eruption. The cable repair steamer Grappler is lost with all hands and was among the first vessels to vanish in the disaster near St Pierre Martinique.
News from Kingston reports all islands near Martinique isolated after a quake. Cable lines to St Vincent Barbadoes Grenada Trinidad Demerara and St Lucia cut. Concern grows for Grappler, the cable repair steamer stationed at Martinique before the disaster.
Portland firm J H Hamlin & Mo reports heavy losses from the St Pierre Martinique destruction. The junior Hamlin notes the office building on Rue Petit Versailles suffered, but no ships were at St Pierre. State Department says a warship may be sent to aid relief as cables report vast devastation and many lives lost.
So far as known the only American vessel is at port at St Pierre Martinique with no additional details or context available.
A May 10 despatch from Pointe-a-Pitre reports Mt Pelee eruption destroying St Pierre and surrounding areas within four miles. Eight Roraima passengers saved by French cruiser Suchet. farmers face famine. Jamaica dispatch notes cable breaks isolating Martinique. Roddam survivors call the scene glimpses of hell as ships wrecked and all hands perished.
A May 7 despatch from St Thomas in the Danish West Indies says advices received that morning from St Vincent in the British West Indies report updates on events there.
In a spring health pitch the ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies impure blood, boosts appetite and vitality, and cures eruptions. It urges the whole family to start taking the remedy today.
A St. Thomas despatch notes tremors near the Soufriere crater with residents seeking safety. Cable links to Martinique were interrupted May 7 and southward to St. Lucia ceased the same afternoon. Dominica shows volcanic signs. Dominica has sulphur deposits and volcanic rocks. Soufriere rises 2000 feet with a three mile crater.
The Western Union Telegraph Company reports a notice from the West India and Panama Telegraph Company that steamers carrying cable messages to Martinique after the cable interruption were reported destroyed.
The three masted schooner Anna BE Morse under Captain Crocker arrived at the port on April 24 from Philadelphia with coal in its cargo and fears are entertained regarding the vessel.
Creeds Virginia judge W W Bowen describes himself as a reforming coffee taper and documents relief from headaches stomach trouble and heart trouble after giving up coffee for Postum. He credits the beverage with ending his nervousness and says his wife also improved from coffee owed heart trouble and nervousness. He asserts many cases have been cured or helped by switching to Postum.
A ship involved in a perilous incident with eight men aboard seeks safety. The Morse, owned by J. S. Winslow & Co. of Portland, Missouri, faced danger. The British bark L. W. Norton, under Captain Parks, sailed from New York on April 12 toward St. Pierre and should have arrived as the city was destroyed. The Maritime Register shows no other vessel in port at that time.
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