Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 18
18 The daily Milnp of Lahore, in its issue dated February 1, writes: " In the Nepal valley almost all the houses and buildingp have collapsed. In Khatmandu, in many placfs in the plains and in the mountains deep fissures have appeared. Two daughters of the MaharajAh, his grand,daugtter, his cousin, with his wife and two children, have died. " According to the Civil and M:Uitary Gazette, aated the. 9th February, the traffic manager of the Bengal _Railway says: " It is not easy to realise the full significance ofa complete paralysis of communications-roads gone, railways gone, tele- graph gone, vast areas of country flooded and practitally impassable; in the immediate panic-striken vicinity only chaos and despair, and beyond only silence _and a great fear. " The Daily Zamindar of Lahore, in its issue of January 25, \Vrites: "The dreadful havoc which the earthquake of the 15th January has wrought in different parts of. the Bihar pro- vince has no parallel whatever in all the history of India. 11 In this unfortunate province, so far besides men, thousands of women and children have perished. Crores of rupees worth property has suffered destruction and become dust with dust. Vi;t. luable household furnitures, which had taken generations to acquire and collect together, and many othe~ treasured possessions and family heirlooms of these people, now lie destroyed and buried beneath tons· aQd tons· of debris. Whole towns and cities have beco~e lev_elled with the ground and turned into mounds of ruins; large tracts of the country have become converted i~to deserts and waste lands. No foodstuffs and no eatables of any kind are to be had for miles and miles around, nor have the luckless people a shred of clothing left on their backs to protect their n,ude and shivering b9dies from the inclemencies of the wheather. " The daily Pratab of Lahore, in its issue of January 26, writes: "Reports coming froin Bihar and Orissa. are full of harrowing tales. Accor<ling to the people who have escaped