Tornado and Natural Disasters in the Philippine Islands
As if anything more were needed to supplement the chapter of horrors which the old year gives us, there comes the news of the terrific tornado which has passed over the Philippine Islands, resulting in the loss of over two hundred and fifty lives, and the destruction of four thousand houses, besides which cattle perished, and crops in all directions were ruined. The elements have worked fearful devastations in these islands. Five earthquakes have laid Manila in heaps since 1645; in the last, that of 1863, one thousand lives were lost; fire destroyed ten thousand of her huts in 1833; repeatedly have Malinao, Albay, and the adjacent towns, suffered from volcanic eruptions.—Christian at Work.