ng with whom they fought, they stabbed and shot, and
clawed and scratched, and boxed and wrestled with each other.

The many horses stampeded, and beat down hundreds of the people beneath
their iron hoofs.

The darkness deepened, it grew sooty, inky. The horrors pressed upon
the people, women and children, and even men grovelled on their faces
in the dust, clutching and clawing at the ground.

Thunder in the heavens, and thunder under the earth deafened and
terrified every soul. Fierce, wide, jagged ribbons of awful flame came
out of the blackened heavens. Scores of thunderbolts, red and flaming,
leaped out of the blackness of cloud above, and, hissing as they came,
wrought awful death among the mobs upon which they descended. The
smell of burning flesh filled the air, making a new horror.

The thunder and rumble beneath the earth increased. The whole surface
of the city heaved like the swell of a storm-tossed sea. Chasms,
fissures, gulfs yawned every-where, and thousands of people toppled
into the opened earth. Suddenly, the whole heavens were filled with an
appalling succession of frightful crashings; it was as though hundreds
of millions of powerful rockets were exploding in successive volleys of
millions each. Beneath the earth, thunders and crashings went on at
the same time. Then, in every direction, the earth fissured and gaped
and yawned wider than ever, and with blood-curdling roarings and
crashings, a whole tenth part of the city tottered and fell into the
yawning gulfs, with thousands upon thousands of people.

Slowly, the rumble of falling buildings, and the hideous thunders below
and aloft died away, and a strange, awesome hush fell upon the city.
Slowly, too, the darkness melted, leaving the sky blood-red. The blood
gradually merged into pink towards the centre of the dome, the pink
became gold, then every living eye in the city and suburbs became
centred upon that golden centre, and all saw the forms of the TWO
WITNESSES, with a pavement of dazzling white cumulus beneath their
sandalled feet.

The wondrous scene was as the very voice of God to the watching
multitudes, if they could but have understood, the voice testifying to
the power and truth of God and His word.

It was the _new_, the fashionable part of the city that had suffered in
the earthquake and its attendant horrors--the part of the city where
"Satan's seat was," chiefly.

With the engulphing of the most fashionable part of