At this end of the lake was where 85 year old Harry Randall Truman refused to leave his Mount St. Helens Lodge prior to the eruption. He had operated the lodge for 52 years. Truman is presumed to have died (along with 56 other people) in the eruption on May 18. A pyroclastic flow engulfed the Spirit Lake area, destroying the lake, and burying the site of his lodge under 150 feet of volcanic landslide debris. A new lake eventually formed on a much higher elevation.
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