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The erupting volcano Mount Pelee on the island of Martinique, which erupted on the 8th May 1902, destroyed the city of St. Pierre and killed 29,000 people. Ruins of the Theatre Saint-Pierre, following the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902, Martinique, French overseas department.
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The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée was a volcanic eruption on the island of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc of the eastern Caribbean, which was one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history.
56 photos · 5,193 views. By: SMU Libraries Digital Collections. Although not many details are known about this album, it appears W.G. Cooper, owner of a photography studio in Barbados, photographed St. Pierre, Martinique and surrounding areas before and after the eruption of Mt. Pelee in May 1902.
Mount Pelée is famous for its extremely destructive eruption in 1902 and the destruction that resulted, now dubbed the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century.The eruption killed about 30,000 people, most deaths in the destroyed Saint-Pierre, at that time the largest city in Martinique, due to its deadly pyroclastic flows.Pyroclastic flows ...
The Royal Commonwealth Society Library has just published an item level catalogue of a photograph collection, Y307E, which strikingly records one of the great natural disasters in human history: the eruption of Mont Pelée on Martinique during April and May 1902.
7 kwi 2015 · When it roared to life again in 1902, the mountain produced one of the deadliest eruptions in recorded history, unleashing a cascade of horrors upon the residents of St. Pierre before obliterating the town in one fatal instant.
