Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1897-10-22 | Page 2 | Swept by a Cyclone

SWEPT BY A CYCLONE An Island of the Philippine Group Almost Devastated I Madrid Oct 21A dispatch received here from Leyte one of the Philippine I I Islands says that place has been almost al-most devastated by a cyclone that I many persons have been killed and damage to property is incalculable I I The cyclone i is further announced destroyed the towns of Tagloban and I II Hernanl on tie Island of Leyte as I well as several villages I is estimated I that 500 persons lost their lives through the disaster I Later advices from Manila say that the cyclone occurred on Oct 12 and that Carr a and Eurga on the eastern east-ern coast of Leyte have been wiped out and that an immense wave swept inland in-land Several thousand natives perished perish-ed at Tagloban The cyclone also swept the island of Sammar The full extent of the catastrophe is not yet known j The town ofLeyte sustained but I little damage contrary to the first reports I re-ports received I I