The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-11-01
MoRGANTowN, VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1899
THOSE LOST CHILDREN.
More About the East Indian
Earthquake.

hfeS Knowles Makes Some corrections
and Explanations But the Sad Pact
Remains Of the Death Of the Children
Their Ages Ranged From Nine to
Seventeen Years--Parents We're Alb.
sent at the Time.
Miss Knowles, who is the guest
OF her brother, ID. G. Knowles, ID. d.,
in Tilton, N. II has written this
letter at the request of the editor:
'fThe startling kilograms OF the
disaster in DaTeeling, India, re-
ported last week touch me closely;
SO wish to make correction and
some explanations for the benefit of
my friends. The school referred to
was named Arcadia and not Ida
Villa but as the latter house stands
| just above US on the hillside, it is
evident that the two have been con
fused in the account, or both may
have been destroyed
Il was appointed by Bishop Tho
burn to open Arcadia as branch of
our Calcutta Girls School in March,
1895 Before we entered the build
ing it was inspected carefully by an
official, pronounced safe location,
and from the beginning the school
has prospered beyond our expecta
ton. On March LIST last Miss Stahl,
of the Calcutta school, was trans
ferred to Arcadia, that l might have
year at home. and at the time of
the disaster the school numbered
forty boarders, ten day scholars, and
six teachers. AS l wrote there is
reason to fear that nothing remains
of the building. On the same side
of the hill with us, not more than
ten minutes walk, was located the
Diocesan Girls School of the Church
of England. Both schools are re-
ferred to in the kilograms, and I'M
doubtedly both have suffered.
THE cablegram informing us of
the loss of five children of the Rev.
d. Fl Lee makes us more sure about
the boarding school itself, as they
lived in house near by. In May
Mr.. Lee rented small house near
Arcadia, and the whole family were
there until July. when Mr.. and Mrs.
Lee returned to Calcutta, leaving
the five older children to attend our
school as day scholars. This /
learned from letters previously re-
ceived. The hillsides of Darjeeling
have not heretofore been considered
unsafe. The ridge, some SIX miles
in length, was purchased by
the British government from the
Rajah of Sikkim for military san
itarium in the year 1885, and regi-
ments have been quartercd here all
these years during the hot season in
good substantial buildings. The
government has also sanitarium
for civilians. For fifty years the
name Darjeeling has been an inspir
alton TO those seeking health and
relief from the heat. Parents have
so far trusted this beautiful location,
1000 feet above the sea, that last
year 300 children were pupils there
in it's different schools.
| SfedI uedl VI mlSSiOu WOTh IS
done by the established Church OF
Scotland on the ridges aud through
the valleys of these lower Himala
vas. The hill tribes--Lepchas,
Nepaulese, and Bontanese-with
many Tibetans, who cross the
border as traders, form a large and
inspiring work for Christian mis-
sionaries. The climate is damp, the
rainy season continuing from May
until the close Of September; but
the recent storm has been one of un-
usual fury. accompanied by an earth
quake. Personally this disaster
comes very near to me; but feel
that parents bereft of children of the
ages of seventeen to nine years, need,
most of all, our sympathy and pray
ers"