Saint-Pierre - Corpses.
30 000 dead. Could the assessment have been less heavy? Were the authorities to make evacuate the city? Beyond the polemic on the responsabillities of each one, Léo Ursulet in its book "the disaster of 1902 in Martinique" make us remember that a fast evacuation of the inhabitants would have been difficult because of the weakness of the road network and the lack of boats.
