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HundredsDieAs Typhoons Hit Two CountriesNEW YORK. Fri.—Reports of mounting typhoon death-tolls in the Philippines and Indo-China were received here today. Officials in the Philippines counted at least II.'I dead and listed 20?) more missing in the typhoon ofTuesday and Wednesday.It was feared lhat the Philip pines toll would rise still higher when isolated village* reported their losses.Communications throughout the devastated area were lost in the debris of broken telephone poles, tangled wires and smashed radio stations.The winds sowed their greatest destruction in southern Luzon.Legaspi. in Albay province, noncc-thriving port of 80.000 people, was almost in ruins. Tabnco. a city of 3.1,000 *'nly20 miles to the north. reported 118 dead—the highest singlecity typhoon toll ever reported in the Philippines.Crop damage ran to millions of dollars.The National Red Cross rush cd relief supplies to the stricken provinces.Indo-China TollI he storm was reported to be hearing down on the eastern shores of Indo-China, which has not recovered fr«»ni a typhoon and tidal wave suffered carlict this week.I rom Paris it is reported lhat the Vietnam Government announced today that 114 people are dead and missing after this disaster in southern Indo-China.\t the ruined post of Phan I hid, ‘0 miles cast of Saigon, a French legionnaire was credited with saving 1? lives by cracking the plastct from Ins broken leg and swimming hall .1 mile to flag rescuers aboard an infantry landing-craft.At Hicn Hon, 25 miles north of Saigon, hysterical prisoners were trapped neck high in water when floods swamped then cells at the height of the UOm.p.h. storm.Some of the prisoners support cd weaker cell-matcs above w-aici until help cnmc. \t Phan |Thict, where the first force of the tidal wave cut the town ot 20,000 inhabitants in two. dead and missing were numbered at more than 300.Rescue workers said that scores of families living in sampans and junks had been carried out to sea. and that the full toll of the storm might never be known.City WreckedAn American Associated Press correspondent who reached Leg-aspi. on southern Luzon Island, said that the typhoon hit the Philippines city on Tuesday, like “a monster whirling a giant hoio knife.Thousands were homeless, he reported. The number of deaths was not yet known.I he typhoon left only 15 concrete shells iff buildings stand ingAll else was ruin. C ommunica* lions wcic destroyed.There was no electricity and little drinking water.I'hc correspondent quoted Mr. Milton I cavitt. a U S State Oe-parfmcnt public affairs oflkcr inI cgaspi, as saying:“It was a nightmare. It was hell. Thirty families huddled in our house.The wind kept getting strong cr and stronger. It blew awayII ecs. roof-tops and shacks.About 6 p m. on I ucsday thewinds got pretty bad things started flying all around us— big things like parts of houses and whole trees.After three hours the winds died down completely. Bui iu a few minutes they rose again to a furious pitch. I knew we were in the centre of the typhoon.”CON SI II I VN VS MOTORSPly. I imited for all lord pto ducts. (Advt.)
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Perth West Australian
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Sat, Oct 25, 1952
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