Identifier: truestoryofmarti00whit (find matches)
Title: True story of the Martinique and St. Vincent calamities ... including an account of the destruction of Pompei and Herculaneum and accounts of all the most noted volcanic eruptions
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Whitney, John Randolph. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Volcanoes
Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY J. MARTIN MILLER SCENE OF THE TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN MARTINIQUE WHICH CAUSED THE DESTRUCTION OF ST. PIERRE
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COPYRIGHT, 1t>02, BY J. MARTIN MILLER THE CRATER OF MOUNT SOUFRIERE, ST. VINCENT, THE ERUPTION OF 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 thousand before the shock which cut ravines in the fields and shook many of the houses to wreck. According to stories in San Jose after the earthquake, the scenes 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 three persons were killed. Travellers coming into the city reported that the railway had been much damaged and progress was difficult, for the embankment had been badly cracked and the rails spread in many places. TRAGIC STORIES OF DEATH. The stories of death and destitution were coming into San Jose from all sides

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