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the fiscal of Iloilo on September 1, 1912.

In the 1918 census, while serving as judge of the Fourteenth Judicial district that covered the entire Mindanao and Sulu, Reyes was appointed concurrently a special inspector with the same authority and power exercised by the assistant directors of the survey. That same year, he met a horrible fate. On December 25, Quantico, the ship he was on, sank off Tablas Strait, between Romblon and Mindoro.

The sea mishap took place on Christmas day.

The interisland steamer, owned by the Robert Dollar Company, was sailing north of the channel when it was hit by a typhoon sweeping eastward.

Seventy-two passengers, includ-ing Manuel Lorza, of Lorza & Lozano, an Escolta dry store and a retail and whole-