Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 21
21 word~, but eve~. μist,qrr. . C~t) i;iffer n~ ~r;;11Hel ~P. ·it. ,. WJiat has happened makes a hearc-retiding tale. . . . . . . . . There was ·such au inundation of water that the Muslims there thought that the Flood of Noah had coine. Those who were possessed of millions are camping in the open with no better roofs over their heads t 1an sheets of cloth or blankets <}raped over bamboo ~oles. " · · Again: " After an interval of twenty eight years India has again experienced a most terrible earthquake. The earthquake of 1905 had devastated the Kangra valley, while this present cataclysm has laid in ruins the province of Bihar and Orissa and the Nepal State. Whi,le the earthquake lasted, the houses uprooted from their very foundations, jumped into the ai~ several feet high, and the waters of the wells shot up in long jets into the air, bringing with them such immense quantities of sand that a thick layer of it, which is several feet deep, h:i. s settled over the soil for miles around. "The toll levied by death is frightful. Parents have lost their children and the children have lost their parents. In many instances, among the ruins of the fallen houses, ·small children were seen looking about for their lost parents. They would slightly raise this brick and then that and peep tinder it, as if they expected their parents to come out from beneath it and take them fondly in their arms. But death had laid its relentless hand on everything. Every time when, in the process of digging, a dead body came out such heart-rending cries and shrieks on the part of those bereaved would fill the air that profoundly touched one's heart and drew tears from one's eyes. ''. . ,. . ,. (The Milap, jan. uary 25). Again: " Those field;; which, until the afternoon of the fateful 15th of January, were consider. ~d excellent for the cultivation of ,:ice have now suddenly become transformed into deserts of sand, and it is highly improbable if they can ever be restored to their original condition of fertility. Now the problem is how are th~se poor cultivators, who entirely depended on these fields for their subsistence, to be helped. so that they may be able to ·earn their livelihood and start life anew. The misfortune of the town-folks who have suffered a shipwreck from the earthquake is indeed great, but the disaster of the poor tiller of the soil is even greater. He is left perfectly resourceless. At present over a lakh of acres of land is standing with sugarcane, but then~ a. r~ no millEi to crusb it. "-(The ~ilap 1 February 3).