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accessed Dec 2010), Edwin Croney.
Reading Eagle - June 6, 1902
Reading, PA, USA
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Roraima Child out of Bed
Fort de France: Margaret Stokes, the little girl from Brooklyn who is the sole survivor of her family, the others having perished on the steamer Roraima, when the vessel was destroyed at St. Pierre by the eruption of Mont Pelee, was taken from the hospital here, with her nurse, Emma (should read Clara) King, by Edwin Croney a relative. They will leave to-night on the steamer Eden for Barbados, where Mrs. Croney, the child's aunt, lives.
The little girl is now convalescent. She is emaciated, and has not entirely recovered from the effects of the burns she sustained, it being still necessary to keep bandages on her body.
Some feeling has been created among foreigners here by the fact that Mr. Croney was compelled to pay to the hospital authorities the sum of 320 francs before they would release the girl and her nurse. The girl and her nurse are both British subjects, and in view of the fact that England contributed generously to the relief of the sufferers of Martinique, it is held that no charge should have been made for hospital treatment.
Furthermore, the other patients were treated free of charge. Mr. Croney will make a protest to the Governor of Barbados against the action of the hospital authorities. |
