THE PHILLIPPINES CYCLONES.
DAMAGE 7,300,000 FRANCS
ONE THOUSAND NATIVES
DROWNED.
MANILLA, October 23
It is estimated the damage done by the cyclone which devastated Leyte Island, one of: the Phillippines group, is seven and a half million fruncs. The loss of life was alro enormous. One thousand natives were drowned at Tacolaban, the capital town of Leyte. Samare, another island of the Philippines group, was also devastated, j
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 246, 23 October 1897, Page 5
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