The National geographic magazine . t, but interveningridges obscured his view of the lowervent and St Pierre. This also was thecase with M. Levenaire,who lived north-east of Morne Rouge. The witnessesfrom the ships could see the sequenceof eruptions ; but as the edge of thedense black aerial mass of ashes ap-proached them the cloud itself cutofftheir observation of those things takingplace over the city which could be seenby observers from the land side. Allof the witnesses, many of them fright-fully injured, were too busily engagedin securing their own safety to devotetheir attention to the p
The National geographic magazine . t, but interveningridges obscured his view of the lowervent and St Pierre. This also was thecase with M. Levenaire,who lived north-east of Morne Rouge. The witnessesfrom the ships could see the sequenceof eruptions ; but as the edge of thedense black aerial mass of ashes ap-proached them the cloud itself cutofftheir observation of those things takingplace over the city which could be seenby observers from the land side. Allof the witnesses, many of them fright-fully injured, were too busily engagedin securing their own safety to devotetheir attention to the phenomena ex-clusively. Two have given unusuallyintelligible and accurate accounts ofwhat they witnessed. These are FatherAlte Roche, of Mont Verte, and SecondEngineer Chas. Evans, of the was associated with the latter for aweek upon our return on the story of Father Alte Roche wasgiven by Mr Skinner in the New YorkTimes. Many other witnesses havenoted important single facts. 250 The National Geographic Magazine. Photo by Israel C. Russell Statue of Our Lady of the Watch, Morne dOrange, South End of CityThis statue, weighing several tons, was hurled 50 feet by the terrific blast (seepage 273) Preliminary Air Movement. — MrFerdinand Clerc, the chief planter ofthe island, whose miraculous escapefrom the city at 7 oclock on the morn-ing of the 8th has been recorded, in-formed me that the needle of a largeaneroid barometer hanging in his housefluctuated violently, and this fact deter-mined him to leave the city. Thesefluctuations were undoubtedly disturb-ances in the air from explosions withinthe open crater. Detonations.—Professor Arnoux, as-tronomer of the St Pierre observatory,at the time of the catastrophe was onthe overlooking plateau of Mont Par-naise. He had distinctly heard detona-tions when the eruption took place. Jean Marie Evans, a foreman of theRaibaud estate, two miles southeastfrom St Pierre, in a deep valley, alsotold me that there were fright
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