The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-25
A TYPHoON IN MANILA.
An Impressive Display Of the Power OF
Wind.

An impressive Dispiay OF the ROVER OF
Wind.
Boston Transcripts: A young Boston,
ian in business in the Philippine islands
describes in private letter q typhoon
which visited the islands. He writes:
Just after We finished tifin, at our
little seaside house. our gaze was rivsted
on q native coming down the street.
dressed in black coat, with shirt hang
ing out beneath. in true Philippine Gus
tom, and wearing white trousers and
tall hat. He carried sort of decorated
cane. marched down the center Of the
street, and gave utterance to solemn
sentences in . deep, musical voice. In
short, he WAS official crier to herald the
coming typhoon; and - he marched
along, the bells in the old church rang
out q wild, warning peal. The natives op-
posite us hastily began to sling ropes over
the roofs OF their light nipa shanties, and
one of the English fellows who livss just
back of us had already stretched good
sized cables over the tall, sloping tin
roof of his domicile. A sort OF hush
prevailed, and then sudden gnsts began
to blow in off the bay. The scud clouds
increased and appeared to be in terri
BILE rush. The roar of the surf became
! louder and louder. and one after the
other OF our oyster she'll windows had ia
be shut. The typhoon was advancing
slowly. but it's course was sure.
"Our O'Clock dinner passed, and now
the wind began to howl. Before going
to bed we moved out Of our little parlore
such valuables as might be most missed
by being carried through the air in case
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terrific din. Sleep was impossible.
bride before the altar, and for triumph
denly was ripped off of our secondary
rain shed roof like go much paper.
| Great pieces of tin were slapping
around and up against the house and
would have sawed Q head or hand
off had one attempted to poke itself
outside. At 80 q. m. we took look
into the "sala." No glass would have
stood the gusts that came bouncing in
from the bay. but our oyster shells did
not yield. The noise outside was deaf
ening. The house hung together and
we were thankful that we were not off
in the bay. The wind lulled in the
early morning, and at 8 q. m. came
some OF the most terrible changes OF
wind. the deadliest squalls and most
terrific blowings ever felt. Down came
all the wires in the main street; over
went half dozen nipas on one side of
US; crack, bang, broke of some great
venerable trees. The street was q mass
of wreckage 90 far % We could see, and
few signs of life were visible. All the
rest OF the day the winds blew most
fercsly, but we could see that the CEN
ter of the typhoon Was passing off to
the northwest.
II sailed out in the afternoon and
managed to keep along behind the
houses and reached the Luneta, whore
broken glass. and where the huge waves
were flying far up into the air "a they
dashed against the sea wall. The
clumps OF fishing and bathings houses
were battered in pieces, and those which
washed mp into the road ga mere drift.
wood. The natives were out grabbing
logs, while the fishermen's families were
Crouching behind stone wall. watching
their wrecked 'bsrns," and were sitting
on their saucepans, furniture and babies
to keep them from sailing skyward. The
vessels out in the bay were throwing the
surf high over their bows. One of then
seemed to be ashore and her stern very
near the breakers. A steamer had
losing all her anchors and chain. But
all things have an end, and at night the
winds and rains subsidized. The typhoon
was wide in diameter, and 80 was not 81
destructive "a the one in 1882"