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right and then to the !ef~ Then it s~emed a~. )f,;~,i;1. dj1;. l~,~~d on ·i. iJ1ug. ~~··~the,. th~ wh~le earth h:;id "been s,et \Vhirliqg- 'round and round by some invisible giant hand ,Tfost my ·senses; and when at last, aft~r about half an hour, I regained conciousness a strange sight met my eyes: as far as the eye could s~~. all was ruins and, d@solation. It s_eemed to me as if I were no longer in Monghyr. . :The city was so much changed that I could no longer fi119. out my own house, so I sat down on, a· mound and gass~d the whole night there. When day broke, l found that' the whole city had been reduced to a vast heap-of ruins I" '(h~ HqIJ. 01,ual:>le Syed Abdul Aziz, Education Minist!'!r Qt Bihar, says: "At one place, a stream fuli of water. was flowing, The ground clove open and swallowed up the who!~ stream, -leaving its bed abs~lutely dry A motor lorry, containing sovie passengers, was proceeding. The earthquake came, and thr;l lorry stopped and the passengers got out of it. 1 hen a great chasm formed in the ground, and the lorry disappeared into this yawnin_g hole. With the lorry in its belly the eartli reClose<;l, so that no trace either of the vehicle or of the hqle ·was left:. , ({nqilab February 2). The ~on·tn·l~w of the Maharajah of Monghyr ~ays; " The city of Monghyr, once so fine and so beautifUI, n6\v presents an awful spectacle. Except for the mounds of the ruins of the shops, nothing remains of it. While the exact PUIIlb,~r of those who have been killed in this catastrophe ·is not 'Icrlow~. the general estimate that has so far been made ·p]a'ces ·the number of the dead at 25,0. 00. In the Municipal regi!;ters, so far, 12,000 names of those who have lost their liv_ps ·have been recorded. "Flocks of vultures and crow!? are to be seen busy tearing and feeding on the dead bodies. The whole town has become converted intq one vast gi:ave-yard which strikes terror into the heart of the. beholder. I have ·no words in which to de~criqe all t~~t my ey~s have seen 1 '~(Haqiq_r;;·t, Lucknow, January 1934),. In the issue of the Milap, dated January 13, 1Q34, t!:Je 'Edito~ of that paper writes : · ·. ". The havoc wrought by tbe, -~arthqua,k~ in th~. aJfoct~d ar~a is ·so ~reat that nof on'lr Qne ~a,nnot descri~"" i~ l~