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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1902

Cyclone in Argentina

By N. Z. Town

“CYCLONE last night. School nearly destroyed. Few hurt.” Such was the startling telegram received on the twenty-third of this month from Dr. R. H. Habenicht, who was in our workers’ school in the province of Entre Rios.

The storm struck the school about one o’clock at night. The main building has nine rooms one story high, and all except one of these were unroofed, and some of the roofing was completely destroyed. A number of the doors and windows were also damaged, and considerable furniture broken. Very little of the walls were blown down, but some portions will have to be relaid. The new building which the students have put up this year suffered the same fate, as did all the outbuildings.

The disaster occurred the first night after the school family had returned from our camp meeting. As quite a number of the students remained on the camp ground to attend a canvassers’ institute, there were comparatively few in the school building when the storm struck it. Otherwise more might have been hurt. One sister received quite a severe bruise by falling bricks, but aside from this no one was seriously hurt.

Why this disaster has been permitted to come we do not as yet see, nor can we at present see where the money is coming from to make repairs, but we believe that it will come, and we are determined to “arise and build.”

Owing to crop failures, our brethren here can do but little, but they will do what they can. So, brethren and sisters, we ask you to help us rebuild our school.

The Lord has abundantly blessed the school this year. Before this reaches you, eight consecrated young men who have been in the school will have entered the work.

N. Z. TOWN.

October 25.