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| St. Pierre and the Mt. Pelée Volcano |
In St Pierre we learned that there is a volcano, Mt. Pelée,
that erupted on May 8, 1902. There is a vulcan museum where we learned a lot of
facts about the volcanic eruption. We learned that the burning, poisonous gas
killed approximately 30,000 people with three survivors. One was in jail but
still got severe burns. One that was found adrift in a boat and one that had
escaped. There are now 5,000 people in St. Pierre. Where we were anchored there
were people diving on ships that sunk when the eruption happened.
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| The Old Theater in St. Pierre, location of the jail cell. |
We visited the old theater and the jail where the survivor
was found several days after the eruption. At the theater you could see where
the stage was, where the orchestra pit was and where the audience sat.
At the Vulcan museum there was the church bell from the city
that was there when the eruption happened.
It was deformed by the heat and crushed until it broke. There were other interesting things at the
museum like sewing machines, huge rocks that had come flying down the mountain,
and photos of the destruction. There was
even a skull. An interesting part of the
eruption is when the people fell dead they had their arms in the air and fell
over backwards or forwards. The
temperature of the heat was about 2000 degrees and the flow travelled at over
400 miles per hour. The city was destroyed in less than a minute.
By Anna.
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