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Fig. 66. — St. Pierre, Martinique, as it appeared 

 the disastrous eruption of Mt. Pelee, in which mo: 

 lives in a spate of less than 3 minutes. (Photogra] 



on May 9, 1902, the day after 



Martinique, as it appeared on May 9, 1902, the day after 

 1 of Mt. Pelee, in which more than 25,000 people lost their 

 than 3 minutes. (Photograph courtesy of J. V. McKeon.) 



Fig. 67. — Pelee in May, 1937, from the ruins of the old prison of St. Pierre. 

 In a little round thick-walled stone dungeon, similar to the one of which the 

 door is visible in the near right foreground, a condemned criminal survived the 

 deadly blast from the volcano that destroyed every other living thing in that 

 ill-fated city 35 years ago. 



