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with their lives and fled from the stricken area and come over to Allahbad, the damage caused to property in the towns of Monghyr, Muzaffarpur, Chapra, Sitamuri, and Darbhanga amounts to something like twenty crores of rupees. As to th!l loss of life, no fewer than twenty thousand lives have been lost in Monghyr alone. On 22nd Ji1iuary alone, under Government arranrsements, as many as three thousand dead bodies were burned up. In all the above towns, all the bazaars have been so completely destroyed that not a trace of them is to be found. The towns are choked with corpses and with torn limbs of dead bodies, all giving out such a terrible stench that it is no longer possible to stay there. " The special correspondent of the Amritabazar Patrika writes from Monghyr, " In the affected area nearly ene hundred thousand head of cattle have perished A commercial traveller who has just come from Muzaffarpur and was present there at the time of the earthquake, reports -that during the i;hoc. k torn human Jim bs, such as heads, legs, arm~, hands and feet, rained down in scores from the roofs and upper storeys of the surrounding houses The lamentations and the groans of the victim:,; were so frightful to hear that he was unnerved with fear. He saw men leaping down from the windows of upper storeys but, before thEy could reach the ground, the walls of the houses collapsed and they were _buried beneath the heaps of debris. The terrible rainfall of the torn and mutilated human limbs continued. Near Gaya, there was a small river, named Phalgar, which has completely disappeared, its place having been occupied by large dunes of sands. No one knows where the river has gone On the other h~nd, there were several other streams in Lhe neighbourhood, whose beds were always dry in this season of the year. They are now full of water I '' The Inqilab, 2nd February, publishes an account given ·by an eyewitness of the tragedy in Monghyr: "At precisely five minutes past two in the afternoon, as I was going along the bazaar, I heard a curious noise as of a mammoth aeroplane approaching. After a few seconds, a queer sort of tremors and tremblings passed through my body, and then the earth rocked twice violently sideways, first to the