The Saint-Pierre Disaster: Elections Amid Volcanic Eruption
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Once, the town of Saint-Pierre on the island of Martinique was one of the economic and commercial centers of the region. It was called “the little Paris of the Antilles.” Life in Saint Pierre was in full swing; there was a commercial port, a theater, and a botanical garden. All this ended on May 8, 1902. Along with its nearly 30,000 inhabitants, Saint-Pierre was destroyed in a matter of seconds by the eruption of the Mount Pelée volcano.
In the new episode of “How It Was,” we will tell you about the disaster that razed the town of Saint-Pierre to the ground. You will find out why the residents ignored the alarming signals that the Mount Pelée volcano sent them even a month before the eruption and how the desire of its governor Louis Mouttet to hold elections in Saint-Pierre at all costs prevented the townspeople from escaping. Finally, you will learn what a Pelean eruption is, how three inhabitants of Saint-Pierre managed to avoid death, and why being imprisoned can sometimes be the luckiest event of your life.
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Materials used:
Library of Congress, SMU Libraries Digital Collections, Gallica - The BnF digital library, Nationaal Archief / National Archives of the Netherlands
Photographs used:
Rehcral / CC BY-SA 4.0, Jean & Nathalie / CC BY 2.0, Ze Moudong / CC BY-SA 4.0, Patrice78500 / CC BY-SA 4.0, Riba / CC BY-SA 3.0, Shroedingerskat / CC BY-SA 4.0, Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen / CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sémhur / CC BY-SA 4.0
Videos used:
"Rearing Mare" / GuidingStarbuck under Creative Commons - Attribution License,
"Dominican centipede death" / vk45de under the Creative Commons - Attribution license,
Volcano Eruptions / PublicResourceOrg under Creative Commons - Attribution license
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My great grandfather on my mother's side left St Pierre de Martinique on May 7, 1902 to join the family plantation of Ste Marie. He reported to his father that the situation in St Pierre was worrying. His father decided to send his eldest son sought his wife and 5 year old son. The eldest went to St Pierre but decided to spend the night with his fiancee's family. After the eruption, his mother's body was found with his young brother in her arms... The eldest son also died because the victoria was found near his fiancée's home...
Readers Digest edited a long story"The last days of St. Pierre" .The prodromi were well described. The volcanologist Bardintzeff in his popular book reported the police prohibiting people from leaving the town for the sake of the election. A year after the volcanology encyclopedist Carl Sapper visited Martinique and questioned eyewitnesses and made friends with the great Lacroix who had built an observatory on a neighbour mountain to have always a look at the dome and the growing aiguille and regard a number of following burning clouds. It has been no ordinary pyroclastic flow for it was of low density, the survivors on the Roddam and Leon Compere could see the inferno. In a normal pyroclastic flow in would be totally foggy, 800 degrees hot.