Angels and Women (1924)

TEBAH AND ITS INMATES 211
Some with frantic cries and outstretched
arms wildly implored our aid, others with insane
laughter sprang into the awful waters,
in desperate attempts to reach our vessel.
But shrieks of terror, strangled cries of
the dying and the howl of beasts, were in an
instant hushed, as the densest darkness suddenly
swallowed all[ And now a terrific
storm again burst forth in renewed fury.
Heaven and earth were shaken by fearful
bursts of thunder; incessant and awful
flashes of lightning illumined the night.
Rain came down in torrents l Before this
dreadful time, the earth had known no rain;
therefore the incredulous had paid no heed
to Noah’s repeated warnings of the coming
deluge. And now it appeared as though
windows were opened in heaven and the
flood poured forth with resistless fury. To
the poor people perishing in the flood, the
sight of so much rain descending from the
heavens seemed most strange and terrible.
We could hear the swollen breakers roar-