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Download or read book The Destruction of St. Pierre and St. Vincent and the World's Greatest Disasters From Pompeii to Martinique; With a Full Explanation in Language Easily Understood of the Causes Which Lead Up to These Most Disastrous and Destructive Upheavals of Nature written by Charles Morris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Destruction of St. Pierre and St. Vincent and the World's Greatest Disasters From Pompeii to Martinique; With a Full Explanation in Language Easily Understood of the Causes Which Lead Up to These Most Disastrous and Destructive Upheavals of Nature: A Vivid and Accurate Story of the Awful Calamity Which Visited the Islands of Martinique and St. Vincent, May 8, 1902, as Told by Eye-Witnesses In ruined St. Pierre a myriad of dead were left entombed in fiery lava and grey volcanic ash, while the few trembling fugitives wandered homeless and hopeless, with bereavement tugging at their heart-strings and famine dogging their errant footsteps. N 0 human power could restore the vanished island landscapes nor bring back life to the charred cinders of what were once strong men and noble women. All that the benevolent world could do was to send quick relief to the starving fugitives and give fitting sepulture to the bodies of the dead, while offering up fervent prayers to the Almighty to stay the pent-up powers of the earth and save man from a renewal of such death-dealing calamities as that which belel the fair city of the tropic isles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.