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Show H ST. PIERRE. B Who can estimate the horror of St. Pierre? H v Sodom and Gomorrow went down under an BH electric storm, a part of Lisbon suddenly H sank under the awful churning of the great H earthquake; the legends have it that Ata- H , lantis disappeared beneath the sea in the H ; same way, but at St. Pierre there was the H earthquake, the Are, such thunderings as H come when mountains are exploded, a H whirlwind of poisoned gases and finally H a tidal wave to engulf such few of the H stricken people as .had for a little while been H ' saved. Neither sacred or profane history H has any similar record of horror. H At sunrise the beautiful island was bask- H ing the dawn, as fair a spot as ever a rising B sun shone upon; the deep green of the Hj tropics, illuminated by the flashes from the Hj wings of bright plumaged bird; in an hour B it was blasted by fire and scoria and falling H ashes. In one hour it was joyous with life, H in the next it was desolate and black under HEf destruction, with the mountains thundering lH the requiem over its dead. The world never H before beheld a picture more lurid and fl dreadful. |