...evening to the little hotel at Blidah, supped, chatted over our adventures, and retired to bed. At 7'15 on the morning of the 2nd I was roused from sleep...the most piercing shrieks. In one instant we thought of our friends on the floor above, where the danger, of course, was so much greater. Thank God ! they...

...from the ceiling and walls, bringing clouds of dust and a darkness as of night. An age of everlasting horror seemed to pass (in reality, I believe, scarcely...rushed blindly to the door and out into the corridor. All the inmates of the hotel were running wildly about. The women's screams and cries were what first...