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Volcanic Eruption...
30,000 l/VES
SNUFFED OUT!
Does the catastrophe
of
1902 prefigure the su–
pergiant political volcano, about to erupt, that
could erase al/ human life from the earth? You
need to know the real meaning
of
present world
events.
by
William F. Dankenbring
T
ODAY WE
live
in
the shadow of
a giant political volcano, and
that volcano is about to
erupt. All human life wiU be dra–
matically affected.
Will men take warning in time?
A Warning for This
Generation
Seveoty-one years ago, people
in
Sr. Pierre were going about their
business as usual. They - like we -
were unaware of what was about to
happen. St. Pierre, a thriving sea–
port of 30,000 inhabitants, was the
commercial center of the island of
Martinique, rivaling Fort-de–
France, the capital, in importance.
Sr. Pierre was located near Mount
Pelée, a volcano named after the an-
8
cient goddess of fue and volcanos.
The early settlers could not have
known it, but the volcano was aptly
named.
ll
was a quiescent time
bomb which Lhreatened the üves of
all who lived around it.
Twice during a span of 300 years,
Pelée had erupted - once in 1792
and again in 1851. Neither eruption
was more than a short rumbling dis–
play.
When similar rumblings and
showers of ash spewed out of Pelée
on May 2, 1902, nobody was fright–
ened or worried. There seemed to be
no reason for dire concern because
Mount Pelée had been a sleeping
volcano for 51 years.
But a series of events were to
combine, this time, to spell horror
and disaster for 30,000 people -
in–
nocent victims of a cataclysm they
never fully believed would happen.
Despite growing signs of peril, no
one took action. Thousands died sense–
lessly, for no apparent purpose -
other than as a lesson for us today!
What lessons can we -
in
the age
of the hydrogen bomb - learn from
their horrible fate? Let the record of
the last few days of St. Pierre speak
- and see
if
the generation of the
1970's can learn a lesson from their
experience.
The Beginning of the End
On Friday, May 2, 1902, Pelée's
activity began.
Femand Clerc, millionaire and
commercial leader of the island,
Pl.AIN TRUTH Moy 1973