Mt Pelee - Martinique,  West Indies


St Pierre village below the cloud shrouded Mt  Pelee, Pelee erupted in 1902 sending a pyroclastic flow through this village, killing 30 000 people in minutes.


The prison cell where the sole survivor of the 1902 eruption was held.


This is a solid steel "restraining chair" in the ruins of a psychiatric hospital, such devices were the normal method of "treatment" of the time, the chair was visibly bent by the force of the blast and it's occupant perished along with everyone else at the hospital.



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