TERRIBLE TYPHOON.
FOUR HUNDRED DEAD. By. Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright . Port Darwin, November 21. The Eastern and. Australian S.S. Comypany's steamer Eastern brings details of the typhoon in the Philippines at the end of-Ootober lost. It was the worst for many, years. V ' .Four hundred peoph were killed and five;milliion pesos' worth of damage done ■'to .property. Many vessels were sunk and thousands of houses destroyed. The barracks was, damaged and the hospital dismantled. The i patients had to be conveyed through the* hurricane and a driviug raiii to railway '«*»•' V ■•■■■'.■ Tens of .thousands of persons, including many Americans, axe homeless. The "hutrioane was accompanied by a tidal'wave, which tore up and destroyed the railways in many places.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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116TERRIBLE TYPHOON. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1604, 22 November 1912, Page 5
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