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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 26, 1906

A Great Calamity

By Editor

Fire Destroys the Printing Plant of the Pacific Press Publishing Company

THE following telegram was received here July 21, at noon:—

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL., July 21. Daniells, Prescott, and Curtiss, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. Pacific Press burned. Total loss. Can Daniells come immediately? Wire. WILCOX.

A reply to this message was sent expressing our sympathy and asking for further information, but up to the time of writing this note, no further information had been received.

In the Washington Sunday Post there appeared the following dispatch:—

SAN JOSE, CAL., July 21.—The entire plant of the Pacific Press Publishing Company, at Mountain View, was destroyed by fire last night. Loss, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars; insurance, one hundred thousand dollars. The stock in the company is owned by Adventists throughout the country.

We are quite confident that the loss may have been exaggerated in this dispatch, but in view of the lack of definite information, we are unable to make any authoritative statement.

On Sunday morning at our chapel service the employees of this Office adopted an expression of sympathy, which was conveyed in the following message:—

TAKOMA PARK STATION, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 22, 1906. Pacific Press, Mountain View, Cal. Our workers unite in expressing sympathy. Can we do more? REVIEW AND HERALD.

We were greatly shocked by this news. We heartily sympathize with those upon whom the burden of this perplexing situation rests. We wait for further news and a clearer understanding of the matter before venturing to make any comments or to suggest any explanation. We can only say that the Lord will guard the interests of his own work, and will accomplish his own purposes.