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Show A DAY OF HORROR. Typhoon and Torrential Rains Bring Death to Three Hundred, Manila. Delated reports Indlcato that tho storm of October 12 In the Cagayan valley was tho worst and most destructive within tho motnory of living Inhabitants of tho valley. Tho official figures nro not yet available ns many places hnvo not been heard from, but It seems certain that tho number of deaths will reach 300. Thero was n heavy typhoon nnd torrential rains throughout tho valley val-ley and In tho mountains. Divers woro flooded and many places roso to a height of thirty feet, sweeping everything beforo thorn lu their rush to tho sen. Hundreds of anlmnU nnd houses were swept nway by tho waters. At Aparrl, which was almost completely com-pletely undor water, tho American nisldcnts, headed by Lieutenants Trendway nnd Clark, Postmaster Fobs nfid Knglnccr Clark, formed a rescue brlgado, which rescued scores of natives, taking many oft their houses whllo floating down tho river. |