Mount Pelee

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Mount Pelée (French: Montagne Pelée “Bald Mountain”) is a vigorous volcano at the northern finish of the island and French overseas department of island within the Caribees island arc of the Caribbean. Its volcanic cone consists of layers of volcanic ash and hardened volcanic rock. The stratovolcano is legendary for its eruption in 1902 and also the destruction that resulted, dubbed the worst volcanic disaster of the twentieth century. The eruption killed regarding thirty,000 people. Most deaths were caused by pyroclastic flows and occurred within the town of Saint-Pierre, which was, at that point, the biggest town on the island.
Pyroclastic flows utterly destroyed St. Pierre, a city of thirty,000 people, among minutes of the eruption. The eruption left solely 2 survivors within the direct path of the flows (with a 3rd reported): Louis-Auguste Cyparis survived as a result of he was in a very poorly louvered, dungeon-like jail cell; Léon Compère-Léandre, living on the sting of the town, at large with severe burns. Havivra prosecutor Ifrile, a girl, reportedly at large with injuries throughout the eruption by taking atiny low boat to a cave down shore, and was later found adrift 2 miles (3 km) from the island, unconscious. The event marked the sole major volcanic disaster within the history of France and its overseas territories.

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