Ludger Sylbaris was an Afro-Caribbean man famous for being one of the few survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the devastating volcanic eruption of Mt. Pel e on May 8, 1902. Saint-Pierre, known as the "Paris of the West Indies", was in the direct path of a pyroclastic flow, which completely leveled the city and killed an estimated 30,000 40,000 people. Sylbaris later travelled with the Barnum & Bailey circus and became something of an early 20th-century celebrity....
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