Show a A SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISHED IN STORM result of terrible typhoon and tidal wave which swept south sea islands the steamer mariposa has arrived at san francisco from australia bringing 9 additional news of the typhoon and tidal wave at the pearl island group in the middle of january the french government ha investigated the dasa ter and found that between and goo islanders perished during the storm after the wind had subsided and the waters had receded hundreds of drowned natives vere found tied to via trees about the places higuera one of the island visited teil by y the deluge was the best able to vi withstand Ith stand its force as its highest place is s twelve feet above the ocean the residents flocked to the heights and sought safety by binding them beaves to the rocks and trees there in they hey remained for three or four days in which the storm swept over the dreadful scene four hundred lives were lost there the islands of hao and higuera are virtually washed away as they are at present little above the sea level and are des of vegetation on them man can not subsist as the soil has vanished and the cocoanut trees are dried up and dead on the island of carona the degasta tion is complete three fourths of the cocoanut trees opre were destroyed houses were cast down the walls of the cath olic church and the prison were swept away and twelve of the inhabitants were killed at amana there were three esons killed by the cyclone anig amig an am ig the survivors of the awful storm are elders creffield Che ffield and alien allen and mr and mrs gilbert of the latter day saints mission |