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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1902
Page
13
William A. Garesche, longtime consul at St. Pierre, Martinique, offers a vivid account of Mont Pelee and the island. He describes St. Pierre as a basined town of stone houses, excellent sanitation, and a mixed populace, noting a peaceful pre-eruption climate and a society with both industrious workers and affluent residents.
Lafcadio Hearne's account in Two Years in the French West Indies recounts Mont Pelee's 1880s eruption that buried St Pierre. The piece notes Pelee as 4400 to 4500 feet, its rivers and thermal springs, ash fall in St Pierre, and the Souffriere as the boiling crater. It describes earthquake series from May to August, oppressive sulphur smell, and ash covering roofs, trees, and streets with the river Blanche turning black. A priest planted a cross at the summit amid rising turmoil.
The text describes a long period where Peles sent a vast white vapor column into the sky, followed by a cessation of ash showers as the mountain settled into a state of quiescence.
St Pierre sits at the harbor edge on a mountain slope with steep streets and a steep climb. Mont Pelee rises above, quiet since 1351 with a dangerous history yet the city thrives on trade and daily life. The 20,000 residents, mostly mixed race, enjoy plentiful water, markets, banks, and a botanical garden, while foreign commerce totals about 10 million dollars annually.
Martinique, a dense 381 square mile island between Puerto Rico and South America, has endured revolutions, hurricanes, and earthquakes. From Port de France to Fort de France, its mixed population, sugar and rum industries, and repeated disasters shaped a resilient yet shrinking white minority and a rich, volatile colonial past.
A roll of Indiana soldiers awarded Medals of Honor for Civil War gallantry. The record names rank, unit, and action sites with dates, from Nashville Tennessee 1864 to Cedar Creek Virginia, Vicksburg Mississippi, and other battles, noting medal issuance dates and heroic deeds.
A Civil War reminiscence centers on Jim, a seventeen year old picket from Company G, Twentieth Indiana, who saves a rider then discovers Mollie, his lover, dying by the river. Jim carries Mollie to camp, then dies at Vicksburg, as Dixie praises Mollie’s loyalty in later verses. Mason, Hl. James Newton Matthews.
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