Another Great Prophecy Fulfilled — Page 23
28 victims v. ho had been entrapped in the falling houses. In a few minutes, like the inffr°nal noises of earthquake, these pitiful agonised Jamrntaticns crnsfd, for by this time the unfortunate victims bad either bern crushed to death or bad passed off into unconsciousness. " Then the digging operatio"ns comemnced. All the victims w,hose dead bodies were dug cut were found to be in the same attitude, the same posture, in VI hich they happened to be at the moment when death had ovutaktn them. Thus the cyclist who was going along the l:azaar was found sitting on his cycle, the mother was found giving bath to her baby with another bahy holding in h<:r lap, the shopkeeper was found holding his scalts in his hand in the act of weighing something, while his customer steed before him--all now still in death. "In all Northern Bihar, next to Monghyr, Muzaff arpn has suffered most heavily. It had a pop1ilation of about 52,000 souls. In all the town only about a dozen of the houses remain standing. But these, too, have been badly damaged So far, about three thousand corpses have been extricated from the debris. The process of digging still continues. "Many people have related that at first amildvibration was felt, and then, following it, a great noise V1-as heard coming from the interior of the earth, which seemed to resemble the whirring noise of an aeroplane. The ncise waxed louder and louder, and then there were deafening detonatioas like the txplosions of bombs. Then, on every side, the houses began to collapse with crashing noises accompanied by the most piteous lamentations of the sufferers who had become entrapped under the falling houses. ·under the shops and the houses, as also in the roidwRys, the ground clove open, as a result of which water gushed out of the earth, accompanied with immense quantities of sand Similar holes also appeared in the rural areas, where in some cases, the water shot up into the air to a height of from five to seven feet. "In J angpur, although full seven days have elapsed siuce the catastrophe occurred, people are still going about in boats. in the streets and bazaars. The same is the case of Sitamarhi, and of Motihari which are equally waterlogged. Strange changes have taken place. All" is water where all