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Show THE ST. PIERRE HORROR. The illustrated papers are filled with the horrors of St. Pierre.' No catastrophe of modern times compares com-pares with it in its appalling presentations. It is clear that one moment the place was filled with the clamors of busy thousands; the next every sound had ceased save the reverberations of the labouring mountain. One moment the place was smiling under the luxuriant tropical foliage, the next all animal life had been put out, and the very blackness of the shadow of death had enveloped the fated city. The pictures show the dead lying as they had fallen, without with-out a moan, under the whirlwind of dead air that smote them. The nature of the cataclyisin has no precedent that we know of. It is the most vivid picture of the absolute uncertainty of human life ever presented to mankind. |