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Author: Gordon Thomas Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1497658802 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 361
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The true story of a horrifying natural disaster—and the corruption that made it worse—by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Voyage of the Damned. In late April 1902, Mount Pelée, a volcano on the Caribbean island Martinique, began to wake up. It emitted clouds of ash and smoke for two weeks until violently erupting on May 8. Over 30,000 residents of St. Pierre were killed; they burned to death under rivers of hot lava and suffocated under pounds of hot ash. Only three people managed to survive: a prisoner trapped in a dungeon-like jail cell, a man on the outskirts of town, and a young girl found floating unconscious in a boat days later. So how did a town of thousands not heed the warnings of nature and local scientists, instead staying behind to perish in the onslaught of volcanic ash? Why did the newspapers publish articles assuring readers that the volcano was harmless? And why did the authorities refuse to allow the American Consul to contact Washington about the conditions? The answer lies in politics: With an election on the horizon, the political leaders of Martinique ignored the welfare of their people in order to consolidate the votes they needed to win. A gripping and informative book on the disastrous effects of a natural disaster coupled with corruption, The Day the World Ended reveals the story of a city engulfed in flames and the political leaders that chose to kill their people rather than give up their political power.
Author: Alwyn Scarth Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195218396 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
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On May 8, 1902, on the Caribbean island of Martinique, the volcano Mount PelÃ(c)e loosed the most terrifying and lethal eruption of the twentieth century. In minutes, it killed 27,000 people and leveled the city of Saint-Pierre. In La Catastrophe, Alwyn Scarth provides a gripping day-by-day and hour-by-hour account of this devastating eruption, based primarily on chilling eyewitness accounts. Scarth recounts how, for many days before the great eruption, a series of smaller eruptions spewed dust and ash. Then came the eruption. A blinding flash lit up the sky. A tremendous cannonade roared out that was heard in Venezuela. Then a scorching blast of superheated gas and ash shot straight down towards Saint-Pierre, racing down at hundreds of miles an hour. This infernal avalanche of dark, billowing, reddish-violet fumes, flashing lightning, ash and rocks, crashed and rolled headlong, destroying everything in its path--public buildings, private homes, the town hall, the Grand Hotel. Temperatures inside the cloud reached 450 degrees Celsius. Virtually everyone in Saint-Pierre died within minutes. Scarth tells of many lucky escapes--the ship Topaze left just hours before the eruption, a prisoner escaped death in solitary confinement. But these were the fortunate few. An official delegation sent later that day by the mayor of Fort-de-France reported total devastation--no quays, no trees, only shattered facades. Saint-Pierre was a smoldering ruin. In the tradition of A Perfect Storm and Isaac's Storm, but on a much larger scale, La Catastrophe takes readers inside the greatest volcanic eruption of the century and one of the most tragic natural disasters of all time.
Author: J Herbert Welch Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230438153 Category : Languages : en Pages : 44
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... The Destruction of St. Pierre. chapter I. The Lesser Antilles are inconspicuous on the map of the West Indies. Stretching between Porto Rico and the northeastern coast of South America in a line that curves like the crescent of the new moon, they are so overshadowed by Cuba, Hayti, and Porto Rico as to attract little or no attention in a hasty scrutiny of a chart of the Islands of the Caribbean. They have played no great part in the world's history, but what little prominence they have had has been the prominence of misfortune. They have been the scenes of bloody conflicts between Spanish, English, and French colonists. They have been pillaged by pirates, devastated by floods and hurricanes, shaken by earthquakes. Despite the fact that they lie bathed in almost continual sunshine, seeming to be very paradises, with their noble hills clad in vivid greens, with their quaint little villages climbing up the slopes, and the soft breath of the tropics fanning them, they are no favorites of Dame Fortune. The term, Unhappy Isles, is one of the appellations by which they are best known to the world at large. But all the catastrophes that the years have heaped upon the Lesser Antilles have been paled into insignificance by the stupendous disaster that visited the Island of Martinique on the beautiful May morning of 1902. Nature gave but little warning of her gigantic outburst. Mont Pelee, rising to a height of nearly five thousand feet on the northwestern coast of Martinique, looked as peaceful and serene a few days before it belched forth its blast of death as it had looked for years. To passengers on steamers that skirted the long line of coast it was merely one of many lofty peaks, just a single feature of an impressive panorama of mountain...
Author: Angelo Heilprin Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed for the Geographical Society of Philadelphia by J.B. Lippincott ISBN: Category : +Pelée, Mont (Martinique) Eruption, 1902 Languages : en Pages : 266
Author: Ernest Zebrowski
Author: Ernest Zebrowski
Author: Gordon Thomas
Author: Alwyn Scarth
Author: J. Herbert Welch
Author: J Herbert Welch
Author: Angelo Heilprin
Author: Frederick Royce
Author: Angelo Heilprin
Author: Tempest Anderson
Author: Tempest Anderson