The Dark Day | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 15, 1878

The Dark Day.

An old lady now living on the Little Colorado, Arizona, who has attained to the age of 128 years, was thirty years of age at the time of the dark day, of which she has a vivid recollection, and recalls many interesting incidents that took place with her people, the Spanish, and also the Indians, who were more superstitious. The Spaniards burned all their saints, of which they had a goodly number, while the Indians took to feasting upon dogs and other animals. The "dark day" was so called on account of the remarkable darkness that extended throughout America. The obscuration commenced about 10 o'clock in the morning of May 19, 1780, and continued until the middle of the next night. Birds sang their evening song, disappeared, and became silent; fowls went to roost; cattle sought the barn-yard; and candles were lighted in the houses. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not, and will probable never be known.—Prescott (Arizona) Miner.