Crossword-Solution: RORAIMA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The most graphic accounts are those given by rescued officers of the Roraima, one of the fleet of the Quebec Steamship Co., trading with the West Indies.

James Taylor, a cooper employed on the Roraima, gives the following account of his experience of the disaster: “Hearing a tremendous report and seeing the ashes falling thicker, I dived into a room, dragging with me Samuel Thomas, a gangway man and fellow countryman, shutting the door tightly.

Seeing the Roddam, which arrived in port shortly after we anchored, making for the Roraima, I said good-bye to the captain and swam back to the Roraima.

Sixteen of them are already dead, and only four of the whole number are expected to recover.” A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCE ON THE “RORAIMA” Margaret Stokes, the 9 year old daughter of the late Clement Stokes, of New York, who, with her mother, a brother aged 4 and a sister aged 3 years, was on the ill-fated steamer Roraima, was saved from that vessel, but is not expected to live.

Her nurse, Clara King, tells the following story of her experience: She says she was in her stateroom, when the steward of the Roraima called out to her: “Look at Mont Pelee.” She went on deck and saw a vast mass of black cloud coming down from the volcano.