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Although in January 1902 Mt. Pelée began ____________
show an abrupt increase in fumarole activity, ____________ ____________
showed little concern. This ____________ ____________ on April 23 when
minor explosions began at the summit of the ____________ Over the ____________
____________ days, St. Pierre was rocked by earth tremors, showered
in ash, and enveloped in ____________ thick cloud of choking sulfurous
gas. These nightmarish conditions deteriorated ____________ when the
____________ and ____________ villages were ____________ by ground-dwelling
insects and snakes driven from the slopes ____________ Mt. Pelée by
the ashfalls and tremors. Horses, pigs, and dogs screamed as red ants
and foot-long centipedes crawled up their legs and bit them. Thousands
of poisonous snakes joined the fray. An estimated 50 ____________ mostly
children, died ____________ the snake ____________ along with some 200
animals. As the ____________ eruptions intensified, water in ____________
Etang Sec crater ____________ was heated to near boiling. On May 5,
the crater rim gave way, sending a torrent of scalding water cascading
down the River Blanche. The hot water mixed with loose pyroclastic debris
to ____________ a massive lahar with a downslope speed of nearly 100
kilometers per hour. This ____________ volcanic mudflow buried everything
in its path. Near the mouth of the river, north of St. Pierre, it overran
a rum distillery, killing ____________ workmen. The lahar continued
____________ the sea, where it generated a three-meter-high tsunami
which flooded ____________ low-lying areas along the waterfront of St.
Pierre.
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