Evening star., 1936-10-12
DEATH.
TOLL REACHES $40.
|NRAG|NG TYPHOON.
Hundreds Are Unaccounted
For as Storm Spreads
New Destruction.
TREE TOPS AND ROOFS
OFFER MANY REFUGEES
National Relief Commission Is
Called by Quezon to Act
in Emergency.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, October 12.-One of the
worst typhoons ever to strike the
Philippines had caused at least $40
deaths and left hundreds unaccounted
for as 1t spread destruction into ad-
ditional areas tonight.
The latest compilation by the Manila
Tribune showed most of the $40 known
dead in Nueva Ecija Province. Reports
were far from complete in four other
provinces Of Luzon Island, where the
fury Of the storm was greatest north
Of Manila.
Streams, flooded by devastating
wind and rain, held scores of bodies
in the debris Of fiimsy native huts.
The total number Of fatalities will
not be known until floods subside and
communication is restored.
Lashes Isabella Province.
The typhon tore into Isabella Prov
ince today after lashing other prov
inces. Wires were torn down and
roads flooded.
Hundreds of miles south the CEN
tral islands Of the archipelago were
whipped by wind and seas tossed small
interisland craft. The 500-ton vessel
Sugbu of Cebu was disabled and
abandoned by passengers and crew.
A passing sailboat rescued some crew
members, but the fate and number of
the others was undetermined.
Eighty-two bodies were recovered
from the city of Cabanatuan alone.
Loss Of life was unestimated in a num-
ber Of flooded and isolated towns.
Bodies were recovered from other VIII
lagos in Nueva Ecija Province, north
OF Manila. At least three persons were
drowned in Camarines Norte Province,
southeast Of Manila.
$4,000 In Stricken City.
Oficials believed many of the miss
ing people never would be found alive.
The stricken Cabanatuan is the cap.
ital Of Nueva Ecija Province, directly
north of here. The city has . popu-
lation Of $1,000. Onicials estimated
l20 were killed there.
All OF the suburbs Of Cabanatuan
were inundated to q depth Of 6 or
feet. Nest Of them were isolated by
swift currents, which prevented res
cuers from venturing out.
Reports indicated many persons in
Nueva Ecija were marooned in tree
tops and on roofs Of their huts. Driven
from their homes when the storm
struck Saturday, the stricken people
suffered further when the typhoon
!ashed back over the district yester-
day.
Fortunately, its return was less in
tense, but it added to the food waters
and the precarious .,osition of the
marooned people.
President Manuel Quezon summoned
the National Relief Commission into
emergency session today. The COM
mission decided to make an aerial sur.
vey OF the stricken region-Nueva
Ecija and neighboring provinces.
Relief Units Sent Out.
Army planes carried emergency sup
plies and relief workers into the area.
The Red Cross, organized for imme-
diate response to such emergencies,
sent relief units to the flooded areas.
Much suffering because Of the lack
Of food and shelter was reported by
the consta bulary. Oficers did their
utmost to rescue the marooned natives,
but were repeatedly hampered by
treacherous currents.
A number Of small boats were re-
ported missing. including one carrying
(See TYPHOON, Page A-3)