Blown Away

Thfi Cantain-Geueral of the Philippine Islands teiegrapas trom Manila, that a tremendous hurricanc had almost entirely destroyed that town In less than an hour from lts comuiencement not a singlo native house and not a single wooden house was left stantUng. Almost all the stone buildings, even those havingiron ratters, were nnroofed and made uninhabitable. Comparatively few casualties had taken place among the population. In a later telegram the Captain-General suys that the authorities of Balucan and the in terior of the island report a s-milar destruction as causcd by the htfrricane, and fifteen thousand more persons are houseless Singularly enough, on the nrtt day after the huracane not a single case nf ("holeva oceured in Manila or the island. Tho tornado not only swepi over the entire archipelago, but was feit many hundred miles out at sea, especially to the south and west. It is believed that more lives have been lust by shipwreck than on land.