The Martinique Horror and St. Vincent Calamity - Containing a Full and Complete Account of the Most Appalling Disaster of Modern Times #226559

With a single blast of the torrent of flame St. Pierre, cover. Ing an area of four miles by two, was on fire. By land and sea all was one seething mass of flame. Nothing escaped. Animal and vegetable life was snuffed out in a moment. Seventy-two hours after the disaster thousands of charred bodies were lying dead on the water front.