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Title: True story of the Martinique and St. Vincent calamities ... including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, John Randolph. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Volcanoes
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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PORT LOUIS GUADELOUPE (FRENCH) 5 9 58 MARTINIQUEHEARD. DUSTAND EARTHQUAKES.
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ST. LUCIA BEING IN THE CENTRE-THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS THE DISTANCES BETWEEN THE ISLANDS. THE VOLCANO INMARTINIQUE IS 100 MILES FROM ST. VINCENT AWFUL SCENE IN ST. PIERRE. 129 begun. Bnough has already been revealed to indicate that thevery worst anticipations as to the result of the eruption of MontPelee are realized. Those who have come back here from St.Pierre report that the streets, and all the neighborhood around,what a few days ago was the largest and most prosperous city inMartinique, are now covered with heaps upon heaps of deadbodies in all directions. All the dead thus far seen were stark naked, their clothingapparently having burned from their bodies like so much tinder,while they themselves were burned to death. In the vast majorityof instances fire seems to have been the sole cause of death.Great numbers of the bodies have been burst asunder by theterrific heat and lie disembowelled. FACES OF THE VICTIMS. In many instances the faces of the victims are quite calm,as though they

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