Disasters in the Philippine Islands
It would naturally seem as the sooner or later America would get sick of the Philippine bargain. For instance, under date of April 19, the cable tells us that Lolo, the chief city of the island of Panay, and next to Manila, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on that date. Twenty thousand reported homeless. The next day, April 20, came another report that over one hundred acres of Manila had been swept clean and eleven hundred houses destroyed, among them the homes of one hundred American residents.