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Show anning The News fuake Toll Hits 70 Compiled From Associated Press y ( , ANCHORAGE, Alaska Shuddering through successive - '.f after-shocks, Alaska Monday laboriously dug out of the . j a of an historic earthquake disaster. , i lis death toll from Friday evening's record quake was ap- A siimtety 70, an amazingly low figure, but the grim realiza- J ;i o( economic ruin was only beginning to sink in upon a Ued population. ' ( Gov, Wiliam A. Egan revised his estimate of property dam- 1 P upward to a conservative $350 million. Other unofficial : ite were higher. I Ike governor raised his estimate after visiting his home sutValdez, which had 32 dead and suffered heavy destruc- l ,.5DEN. Searchers dug into a rugged snow-clogged canyon I r J Md fading hope for the life of a forest ranger buried j ' !w avalanche. , 1 ,S 'fros from the Forest Service and the Weber Coun- j f 'hZS hunted m Past 1 a-m- for the victim, identified i JT! len' about 22- They found no sign of him and I tt? base Taylor's Canyon east of Ogden to re- I search at dawn. i Jjl ms s,Win8 with three companions about two-thirds i; ' up tte canyon when the avalanche struck late Sun- J -mV men with him- Preson Jackson of Ogden, said butAii0!7ng when he saw the snowslide and climbd a disappeared." "-Calvin k'n the party' Dr Aaron Ross of gden and uut 15, were swePt over a shallow embank-Vrontart, |