Who survived the eruption of Mont Pele?

In the sunny May morning exploded volcano Mont Pele, who was on the island of Marti-Naki in the warm Caribbean Sea. At the foot of the volcano is a small town of Saint-Pierre. The volcano woke up long before the eruption. The first signs of eruption appeared for not many days before the crash. Shepherds, grazing sheep on the slopes of the mountain, noticed that even the underground buzz began to grow. Three days before the eruption, he turned into a bubbling growl. Soil temperatures on the slopes of the mountains has increased. Gore seemed to come alive, its slopes are vibrating and moving. Moderate smoke constantly spinning above the crater increased. Several times the volcano threw up at the sky poles toxic smoke. Began to breathe the animals that grazed on the slopes of Mt. Wild birds gather in flocks and fly away from the awakened volcano. Local newspapers warned of the possibility of eruption, and urged residents to leave town. But St. Pierre has left 2000 people. The remaining 30,000 residents stayed at home lightly. But when on May 7, the day before the disaster on the neighboring island of St. Vincent erupted eruption of Soufriere Hills, they do calm down. Residents of Saint-Pierre decided that the bowels of the earth had spent his entire force on the neighboring island and the danger has passed. Time has shown that their assumptions were wrong. The next day at 7 hours and 52 minutes were heard, one after another, three powerful explosions. Kopivshayasya long in the bowels of the earth magma and hot gas, finding no way out, blew the top of the mountain and with a roar rushed outside. Within seconds a huge cloud of dust enveloped the town. Day, not having to enter into its own, has turned into a black, fire-breathing night. Down to the houses of Saint-Pierre, creeping flows of molten lava. They were burned on the way all living things. From the sky rained down a hail of fiery volcanic bombs. Across the city fires flared. Home flashed like torches and collapsed earlier than before them dopolzal stream of molten lava. In the harbor were burning and exploding vehicles. From the unbearable heat on the dock started to blow up more barrels of rum that had been prepared for shipment to Europe. After the third blast the whole city was covered with a fiery whirlwind. History has never known such lightning disasters. Of the 30,000 residents were still alive, only two young shoemaker, who happened to be near the city gates and, although he was severely wounded but managed to get to the nearby hill. Another lucky winner turned out to be a criminal to sit in jail a long Its thick walls have saved his own chamber in which there were no windows just one small hole in the lattice of a metal door. August Kiporis was the name of the prisoner miraculously survived but received severe burns disaster that killed 30,000 of his fellow citizens, meant for him a happy turn of fate. Four days later, rescuers dug him and the governor of the island pardoned convict Kiporis joined a circus troupe and toured with her all over the world telling her story and showing the scars from burns.