p. 74 | The Dark Day

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1879

The Dark Day.

AN old lady living on the little Colorado, says the Arizona Miner, who has attained to the comfortable old age of 128 years, was 30 years of age at the time of the dark day, of which she has a vivid recollection, and recalls many interesting incidents which took place with her people, the Spanish, and also the Indians, who were more superstitious. The Spaniards buried all their saints, of which they had a goodly number, while the Indians took to feasting on dogs and other animals.

The "dark day" was so called on account of the remarkable darkness which extended throughout America. The obscuration commenced about 10 o'clock in the morning of May 19, 1780, and continued till the middle of the next night. Birds sang their evening song, disappeared, and remained silent; fowls went to roost, cattle sought the barnyards, and candles were lighted in the house. The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not, and probably will never be known.