Show SIX THU U SANS SAN-S NATIVESPERISH I Great Typhoon Swept the Philippine Islands DAMAGE TO PROPERTY REALLY APPALLING Nothing Equalled i in the History of the South Seas Details of the Calamity Just tKo Known Whole Towns Swept or Blown Away Five Hundred Europeans Eu-ropeans Killed Vessels Blown Ashore and Crews Drowned Millions Mil-lions Lost at Samoa and Wholesale Whole-sale Death of the Natives San Francisco Nov 27The typhoon which swept over the Philippine Islands Is-lands on the 6th of October was the cause of one of the worst disasters that has been reported from the southern south-ern ocean for many years if not in the history of that section of the world Thousands of lives were lost including many Europeans and the damage to property was something appalling Telegraphic Tel-egraphic advices concerning the calamity calam-ity have been very meager The difficulty I diffi-culty of getting news from the islands is great at any time and owing to the remoteness of some of the provinces visited by the hurricane full details of the storm did not reach Hong Kong I until the first of November The steamer Gaelic from the orient brought letters and papers which contain I con-tain accounts of the ravages of the r tidal wave and the wind Whole towns I were swept or blown away Fully 500 Europeans were lulled and i is estimated mated that 6000 native perished The storm first struck the island at the Bay of Santa Paula in the province of Samar I devastated the entire southern portion of the island and cutoff cut-off communication with the rest of the world for two days On the 12th the hurricane reached Leyte and struck the capital at Tacloban with great fury In less than onehalf hour the town was in a mass of ruins The natives were panic stricken and tried to make their way to clear ground Four hundred hun-dred of them were buried beneath the debris of wrecked buildings and 120 corpses of Europeans were recovered from the ruins when the native authorities author-ities instituted a search for the dead I Reports from the southern coast were received which claimed that a score of small trading vessels and two Sydney traders were blown ashore and their crews drowned The sea at Samoa swept inland nearly a mile destroying property valued at several million dollars and causing wholesale deaths among the natives |