Saint Vincent and Martinque. Album containing photographs of damage caused by the...

CO 1069/388

1898 - 1902

Saint Vincent and Martinque. Album containing photographs of damage caused by the 1898 hurricane in Saint Vincent and later general views, and of the 1902 volcanic eruption in Martinique that destroyed Saint Pierre. Also includes a portrait of Mr A G Hazell.

[Portrait of Mr A G Hazell, Saint Vincent, inside a pocket attached to inside front cover].

Saint Vincent 1898 hurricane damage photographs:

1) 'Ruins Calliaqua South'.

2) 'Kingstown Colonial Hospital'.

3) 'Colonial Hospital - back view'.

4) 'Bridgetown destroyed - 400 inhabitants'.

5) 'Ruins Calliaqua East'.

6) 'Public library and Trish House destroyed - Kingstown'.

7) 'Roman Catholic Presbytery and Church, Kingstown, River Road'.

8) 'Anglican and Wesleyan Churches in ruins - Barronatlic destroyed. [Her Majesties Ship] Pearl landing food'.

9) 'Anglican Roman Catholic and Methodist Churches, Georgetown'.

10) 'Ruins - Kingstown West'.

11) 'Barronaltic destroyed'.

12) [Ruined church - east or west wall only left standing].

13) [General view of destruction with inhabitants by river].

14) [General view of destruction].

15] [General view of destruction along coast].

Martinique 1902 volcanic eruption damage photographs:

1) 'Government House'.

2) 'Leeward. Wallibu (Mr Robertson's Estate) shewing works buried in mud'.

3) 'Windward. Top of dry river, once forest, near the Chain Spint. Jets of steam rising after rain from heated grounds'.

4) 'Windward. Between Lot 14 and Orange Hill. Smoke coming from crater (which is shaped like a fort)'.

5) 'Windward. 2000 foot up was virgin forest, is [now] 40 to 50 foot deep in volcanic debris. (American scientists in foreground)'.

Single page with thirteen photographs depicting the destruction of Saint Pierre, Martinique:

1) 'Saint Pierre. Street scene. The objects in the foreground are corpses in a heap (about 16)'.

2) 'Quebec [Steam Ship Companies'] Roraima burning off Saint Pierre, 11 May 1902. She disappeared on the 16 May'.

3) 'The Cathedral taken from near the altar looking westwards'.

4) 'The lighthouse and wreckage on the foreshore'.

5) 'The safe at the Colonial Bank'.

6) 'Interior of the Colonial Bank'.

7) 'Saint Pierre. Taken from a boat about 300 yards from the shore (11 May)'.

8) 'Saint Pierre. Wreckage in the foreshore. Cathedral Tower in the distance'.

9) 'On the Quay. Saint Pierre'.

10) 'West Tower Cathedral. The bell is in the belfry frame on the ground'.

11) 'Saint Pierre from the sea'.

12) 'A corpse in the wreckage on the foreshore'.

13) 'Street scene. Military hospital with clock at 7.50 at end of street'.

Saint Vincent 1898 hurricane damage and general views:

1) 'Kingston, Saint Vincent'.

2) 'Landing, Kingston, Saint Vincent'.

3) '[Her Majesties Ship] Indefatigable in Kingstown Harbour'.

4) '[Her Majesties Ship] Indefatigable with supplies for Saint Vincent'.

5) 'Map of Saint Vincent'.

6) 'Hospital in Georgetown, Saint Vincent with 200 dying people'.

7) 'Souffriére, Saint Vincent'.

8) 'Dried up vegetation, Saint Vincent'.

9) 'Whale thrown up on the beach, Saint Vincent'.

10) 'Souffriére, Saint Vincent'.

11) 'Waterloo, where 87 corpses were found'.

12) 'Georgetown, Saint Vincent'.

13) 'Burying the dead, Saint Vincent'.

14) 'Street in Georgetown, Saint Vincent'.

15) 'Souffriére country, Saint Vincent'.

A report on the Martinique volcanic eruption disaster can be found in CO 28/257/40

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