A TERRIBLE CYCLONE.
CABLES.
THE CONFORMATION OF THE COUNTRY ENTIRELY ALTERED. TOWNS REDUCED TO RUINS. AND THOUSANDS OF LIVES LOST. (Per Press Association.—Coyy riyht.) Sydney, Nov. 20. Eastern news gives details of the recent cyclone in the Pbillipine Islands. Thousands of lives were lost, and whole towns and villages disappeared. Fooloban, the principal town in the island of Leyhe, was reduced to ruins. About 240 Europeans and several hundred natives were drowned. It is reported that Hernani, in the island of Samar, which contained 6000 inhabitants, has altogether disappeared. Many other centres of population were devastated with great loss of life. The conformation of parts of the coast has been completely altered. Many vessels were wrecked and the coast strewn with wreckage and bodies. Thousands of people are wandering about homeless and foodless.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 487, 27 November 1897, Page 3
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133A TERRIBLE CYCLONE. Hastings Standard, Issue 487, 27 November 1897, Page 3
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