Further donations have een received to the Indian Earthquake Pond, which was. closed in this journal on Thursday. The sums ived have largely come from In-(Giang resident in Shanghai, and the Spontaneity of the. gifts has bes remarkable, "One of the contributor few days ago came personally to this ofice in erder to find out how the could subscribe to the Pund. Ito fxs a Sikh watchman im the employ lof a large organization here and he eve wat int have een ule {argo part of his monthly wage, extent of the disaster has undoubt fedly caught the imagination Indians here, and they: are ight. [The death roll was 6,507—large enough-—but ft. actually' was sur prisingiy amall considering' the imrenal of the destruction wrought, and and, ralvay, bride sand railway bridges
Thundreds of miles of the rail way line were. wrecked. The com parative smallness of the death roll ined. by tree facts: "The ight, but the early afternoon when m0 Jot the population were up ani about: the actual duration of the shock, of three minutes, was a good ideal donger than most of the world's big earthquakes, thus enabling} many to escape rom their houses before they collapsed: and tinaly, jand most important of all, the area worst affected was entirely agricalfatal, a relatively small proportion lof the population there occupying rick or" masonry dwellings, bat living "in "owsroofed mud." huts, Enormous jagged fissures were cut across thousands of square miles of [country and. large-scale. alterations Yitanie force seemed to. have been. effected. Many agricultural tracts were covered by sand s0 deep-to be almost" irreclaimable, fend" others may be made cultivable jonly after months of hard work. Turning to less important interests, the polo ground at Darbhanga, once smooth expanse of turf, was eon Yerted into a. series of mounds of sand and silicate, with pools of water from spouts; while the polo ground Jat Muzaffarpur looked, according to tone observer, ax if a gigantic hand, [pushing the' field on one side, had made its centro line crumple. into Fldges, some of which were. said bye nearly © feet high. "It is satis. factory to note that leading Indian notabilities in the affected aren have sewed a manifesto (0 express their appreciation of the prompt efforts fminde by the authorities at Patna in rotting into touch with the stricken fistriets and bringing relief. The difficulties can be judged, from the fact that the wholesale destruction fof. communications prevented. fofteiat estimate of the damage fat Toast three weeks
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