Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 15
The Vl'hole a. ff ected area presents a specta!=le of- utter death and annihilation. Monghyr, Darbhanga, Mu~affarpur, Motihari, Khatmandu, and many other places of lesser note have, as it were, disappeared from the map. What remains presents a woeful spectacle of desolation and ruin. It was a strange earthquake. At first the tremors passed length~ wise across the surface of the earth, then all of a sudden the whole earth seemed to have been gripped by a terrible rotatory motion, as if a colossal mill, located somewhere in the interior of the earth, had been set spinning at a mad pace py some furious giant hand beneath. It was as if the armies of God's angels had. come down and were pulverizing everything into powder. Gr(:l. at as wa,s the loss of lif~ and property caused by the earthquake of 1905, it was nothing as compared with that which has resulted from the present cataclysm. The whole stricken area in this case, being comprised of a fertile and well populated region, the loss of life and property is necessarily very high. At the lowest computation, millions and millions of rupees worth of property hal? qeep. destroyed. It is on account of this heavy loss that here in India, besides many of the Indian leaders of note, His Excellency the Viceroy, the Governors of the different pr~ al~ communities and religions in the ~ountry.