ERUPTION IN ST. VINCENT.
GREAT SHOWER OF
ASHES
LOSS OF LIFE AND
PROPERTY
NEW YORK, IVlay 11.
News from the British island of St. Vincent, via Point a Pitre, stales that a storm of thunder and lightning broke on Thursday morning, becoming tremendous, with a continuous roar. Pitchy darkness followed. The volcano of Souffriere (3000 ft. high) was enveloped in columns of smoke, and threw out stones and scoriaceous hail. Thirty persons are known to have been killed. On Friday- the shocks were intermittent and fainter. A vast amount of property was destroyed. The ashes lie two feet deep in the village of Chateau Eclair. Volcanic dust is falling at Barbadoes (east of St. Vincent), where it lies an inch thick. The British cruiser Indefatigable, attached to the West Indian station, has been despatched to St. Vincent to render assistance.
Three hundred inhabitants living in the vicinity of Souffriere took refuge at Chateau Eclair.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 111, 12 May 1902, Page 5
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