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Show TYPHOON AND TIDAL WAVE. Gtorm In South Seas Results In Lois ' of 120 Lives. Victoria, B, C Mall advices from tho South Sens Include details of a disastrous typhoon nnd tidal wave In the Marshall group, causing tho loss of about 120 lives. A wave nearly six feet high swept the island of Jalult. The settlement Is on nn Island about a mile long nnd, where tho Europeans are gathered, Is about 100 yards wide. The top story of tho hotel In which tho foreigners lived was blown off and soveral had narrow escapes from falling debris. Tho trading steamer Gurmnnln wns snved from destruction by her master taking her Into the center cen-ter of tho lagoon. |