THE PHILIPPINES.
DEVASTATING TYPHOON. AND ;A TIDAL WAVE. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Sydney, NoAuunber 21. The Port Darwin steamer Eastern brings details of the typhoon in tin Philippines at the end of Octobei Avhich aaiis the Avorst for many years Four hundred persons Avere killed and there Avere five million pesos’ Avorih of damage done to property. Many vessels Avere sunk and thousands of houses Avc'i'o destroyed. Tin barracks Avere damaged and the hos pita-1 dismantled, patients being convoyed in the hurricane during driving rain to the raihray cars. Tens of thousands, including mam Americans, are homeless. The typhoon Avas accompanied by a tidal wave AA'hich tore up and destroyed the raihvays in many places.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 75, 21 November 1912, Page 5
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