Calamities by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 26, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 33.

Calamities

By Editor

Calamities.—The East is not through with its storms for this year, seemingly. It has not only had its fearful suffering from the heat, but this has been followed by severe storms in six states. We noted the fearful storm in Washington. Four were killed and fifteen persons injured in Philadelphia, and five persons were killed and a score injured in the vicinity of New York. Many have been killed, and there has been great loss of property also. Kansas is still suffering from heat conditions, the mercury ranging from 100 in Kansas City to 110 at Great Bend. Prayers for rain were offered in all the churches of Marshall, Missouri, Sunday, and many of the citizens knelt in the streets and prayed. Fires are continually occurring as the result of the drought. In auto accidents, three men were killed and one fatally injured near Wyandotte, Michigan, August 10, and four instantly killed and seven injured in automobile accidents in San Lorenzo, near Oakland. At the same time, we have great loss of life recorded as the result of a flood in India. Cable advices state that there has been an appalling loss of life through the Demodar River bursting its banks near Burdman. Only 200, it is said, out of 30,000 inhabitants, reached the railroad depot safely.