The World - News from Feb. 13, 1985
Fire swept through a luxury hotel in Manila, killing at least 16 people, two of them Americans. The U.S. victims were identified as Edward Carroll, a regional officer of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service based in Tokyo, and Louis Carol Rowney, 62, from the Subic Bay Naval Base. About a dozen IRS employees were attending a conference at the hotel, the Regent of Manila. At least 20 people were reported injured in the blaze, and it was feared that the death toll might rise. Some of those who survived were forced to leap from windows.
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