Show SIX HUNDRED PEOPLE PERISHED IN STORM result of terrible typhoon and tidal wave which swept south sea islands the steamer mal Mail inosa posa lias has arrive I at san francisco from austi australla alla bringing additional nowa news of the typhoon and tidal wave at the pearl island group la in the middle of january tho the fience government has haa investigated the dibas ter and found that between and COO slanders islanders perished during the storm elorna after the wind nind had subsided and tho the mateis had receded hundreds of drowned natives native were found tied to the trees about the places ra cne of the islands island visited by the deluge was ivas the best able to withstand its force as aa its highest placa Is twelve feet above the ocean the residents flocked to the heights and sought bought safety by binding them selves to the rocks and trees there they remained for three or four fou r days in which the morin swept over the dreadful scene four hundred lives were lost there the islands of ilao and are virtually washed avav anar as they aie at present ittle above the sea level and are des of vegetation on them man can not subsist as tile the soil has vanished and the cocoanut coco anut trees are dried up and dead on tho the island of the degasta tion alon Is complete three fourths of the cocoanut coco anut trees nei e destroyed houses were cast down the walls mills of the catholic church and the were ivere sapt away anay and twelve of the inhabitants were killed filed at amadu there were ere persons killed by th cr lone among the survivors of the awful storm are niddia cheeld and allen alien and mr air and mrs airs gilbert of the latter day saints mission |