True story of the Martinique and StVincent calamities ..including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions . COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY J. MARTIN MILLER SCENE OF THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN MARTINIQUE WHICHCAUSED THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE. COPYRIGHT, 1t>02, BY J. MARTIN MILLER THE CRATER OF MOUNT SOUFRIERE, ST. VINCENT, THE ERUPTIONOF WHICH DEVASTATED MUCH OF THAT ISLAND GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT DISASTER. 97 trict which placed the death list at from one thousand to fifteenhundred. The city of Escuintla had a population of a
True story of the Martinique and StVincent calamities ..including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions . COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY J. MARTIN MILLER SCENE OF THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN MARTINIQUE WHICHCAUSED THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE. COPYRIGHT, 1t>02, BY J. MARTIN MILLER THE CRATER OF MOUNT SOUFRIERE, ST. VINCENT, THE ERUPTIONOF WHICH DEVASTATED MUCH OF THAT ISLAND GRAPHIC ACCOUNTS OF THE GREAT DISASTER. 97 trict which placed the death list at from one thousand to fifteenhundred. The city of Escuintla had a population of about ten thousandbefore the shock which cut ravines in the fields and shook manyof the houses to wreck. According to stories in San Jose after the earthquake, thescenes in Escuintla and some of the other cities of that province,which suffered the most, were terrible. In San Jose, the capital of the central province of Guatemala,a thousand buildings were destroyed by the earthquake and threepersons were killed. Travellers coming into the city reportedthat the railway had been much damaged and progress was diffi-cult, for the embankment had been badly cracked and the railsspread in many places. TRAGIC STORIES OF DEATH. The stories of death and destitution were coming into SanJose from all sides
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