A Terrible Calamity

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, Cal. · Jul 16, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 27.

A Terrible Calamity

NEWS despatches of July 1 tell of an awful cyclone disaster, the center of which, so far as damage is concerned, was in the city of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan. It swept through the very heart of the city, killing somewhere about fifty persons, and causing property loss estimated at ten million dollars. Six immense grain elevators, numerous building blocks, the new capitol building, the electric lighting plant, and three churches, went down before the awful storm. Fifteen girls in the telephone exchange building, who stuck heroically to their switchboards, were crushed to death in the wreck of the building. The town is in darkness, the water-works useless, and fire has broken out in the ruins. Among the freaks of the tornado, a freight car was hurled through a freight shed, a canoe was picked from the Wascana Lake and carried three quarters of a mile. Small sailing vessels lie strewn over the southern section of the city, a half-mile from the lake. Automobiles filled with people were hurled high in the air and deposited blocks away. Other small towns were struck to the east of Regina, and damaged to the extent of $500,000 in the demolition of grain elevators and other property. These things are evidence, or ought to be evidence, to every thinking soul, that nature's laws are perverted, that the earth is waxing old, and that it is time to change; and that change will come with the second coming of the world's Lord and Master, who has staid away from His own so long.