Show 11 If THE ST. ST PIERRE HORROR 1 J t I t H M H 0 I U t H- H The world stands tand aghast at t the story of destruction de de- de- de n which winch comes to us from the Island of oJ Martinique Mar Mar- in the West Vest Indies There it appears in one awful instant a vast mass of molten lava burning burn ing at a white heat without the fhe lie least warning f fell 11 upon th the the- city of St. St Ii Pierre l re and wiping it out of e ex- ex together with all but bit thirty of its ith thirty- thirty five or pr forty thousand inhabitants The destruction of Pompeii was as nothing compared d with this calamity In all modern history his his- tory only the earthquake and tidal wave which overt in tc t ung-I ung t i thousand d people has approached it in point I of pf mort mortality lity It is even a greater horror t than an the awful visitation isi which came caine to the American city of Galveston dalveston not long ago Yet it will not make as l deep p or 0 or-a or a as last lasting ng an impression upon the minds of th the tIie current ent generation as have have- other disasters of much nu db h less ss s terrible character Probably of all the tile human uman beings in that doo doomed ed town of St. St Pierre not more than a thousand were Caucasians the there re remainder being negroes many of them with a astrain astrain astrain strain of ot the aboriginal Indian in them Still in in- the he tragedy was no less awful on that thata a account count How Sow thankful we of Salt Lake City and Utah sl should ud be that our lots are cast in in inthis this pleasant pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant ant ant- land of peace and plenty where earthquakes and vol volcanoes hurricanes hurricane and cyclones and all de death dealing outbreaks of mysterious Nature are unknown n |