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Show The Salt Lake Tribune WORLD Sunday, November 1, 1998 Death Toll Tops 250 in Mitch’s Wake (|g Unconfirmed report sevs more than 2,000 missing after Nicaraguan mudslide BY FILADELFO ALEMAN Theofficisi Nicaraguan casualtoll also: ‘uded 121 who died THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in the heavy MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Mudslides buried several communities near Nicaragua's north- western border with Honduras, ain andflash flood- ing. Nicat«gux has asked the United States to lend it helicopters to help deliver aid and assess hurricanesto at least 450. bonita acd damage, Defense Perire J. Chamorro Bar‘rday. vas, at least 231 een confirmed dead . Hurricane Mitch, Only 57 of the 2,500 peopleliving in 10 communities at the foot sion said Saturday. With rainfall killing at least 58 people, according to a local mayor, and pushii up the death toll Saturday from oue of the strongest Caribbean of Caistas Volcano had been ac- counted for by Saturday evening, MayorFelicita Zeledon cf Posoltega, about 20 miles south of mud- slide area, said in an interview with the government's Radio Nic- aragua. Rescue workers had pulled 58 bodies from the mud, shesaid. “It is like a desert littered with buried bodies,” Zeledonsaid,citing reports from rescue workers. There was no independent con- firmation of Zeledon’s report, and it wasn't clear exactly when the mud crashed down theside of the voleano. It was the first official word of any mudslide deaths in the northwestern province of Chinadega, where unconfirmed radio reports had said as many as 4,000 people in the area may have ‘beenkilled when mud camecrashing down the voleano. Maj. Evenor Carcamo, head of the National Civil Defense System in the region, said earlier Saturdaythat bad weather madeit impossible to fly to the area during the day to check out the reports. Gen. Joaquin Cuadra, head of the Nicaraguan army, added that the Posoltega region ‘‘is oneofthe the National Emergency Commis- of 4 inches an hour at the height of the storm, downed bridges, rampant riv ~re, toppled trees and mudslides slated hundreds of communities where food, water and medicine were in short sup- ply. Army helic. 3ters rescued some flood victinr- clanging to rooftops in the Hone run capital, Tegucigalpa. In sx!) coastal communities near Se “edro Sula, ore Mitch — once one of the strongest hurricanes to hit the Caribbe— was di led Sat to a tropical depression status but continued to dump heavy rain on the region. By late Saturday, Mitch’s winds — once near 180 aes ee Cones, Honduras, moving west at 7 mph, the U.S. National Hurri- cane Center ited. fone ooGuard peoried aa transite Sarvaney tee ie yacht went down Mondayin the Caribbean, but there was still no sign of the 258-foot schooner, Fantome. The Ani tered Fantome, once owned by Aristotle , is operated out of Miami by Windjammer Barefoot Cruises. Scott Daltoa/The nasonaied Rescue workers try to keep their boat from turning over in La Lima, Honduras, on Saturday.* and firefigyters moved in with boats to re: ue peoplestill clinging to roofs. Honduras” President Carlos Flores Faci'cs., who traveled to Tegucigalps ~ international airport aboara 2 U.S. military aircraft, seid that “Superhuman efforts ar der way to aid the flood victin:..” ElSalvad -— where 30 people died in flas doods — declared a state of ern:.rgency Saturday, as did Guatemala, where nine people died when floodwaters swept away their homes. 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