Ludger Sylbaris (1 June 1874[1] – c. 1929, aged 55) was an Afro-Caribbean man who was one of the survivors in the city of Saint-Pierre on the Caribbean island of Martinique during the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8, 1902. Saint-Pierre, known as the "Paris of the West Indies", was in the direct path of a pyroclastic flow, which destroyed the city and killed an estimated 30,000 people.[2]
Sylbaris later travelled with the Barnum & Bailey circus and became something of an early 20th-century celebrity.
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