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Box 717, Provo, UT 84603-0717 ive Editor Edi Executive Sunday, February 19, 2006 HERALD buried Philippines town : The Herald corrects errors of fact appearing in its Customer Service 375: 51 03 Metro Editor Gy Sim Sports Editor Business Editor Life & Style Editor Editorial PageEditor DAILY _ ADVERTISING CLASSIFIED RETAIL E | 373-6450 | 344.2946 ‘ADVERTISING FAX 3563012 : The Daily Herald (ISSN 0891-2777, USPS 143-060)is published mom, Sunday through Saturday, ee —aue Tuan geees ie Freedoin Bivd., Provo, Uteh 84604. pencicais postage paid a ro, Utah. Postmaster: Send address | changes to The Daily Herald, P.O, | Bexitay, Bite Wim B4easOF) MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS All contents | | PAT ROQUE/Associated Press, Rescuers ride a payloaderbejorehil iking to the landslide area Saturday, in Guinsaugonvillage in Leyte, southeast of Manila. A rain-soaked mountainside disintegratedin an unstoppable wall of mudFriday, leaving anestimated1, 800people dead. © 2006, Dally Herald. Any reproduction or other use is strictly prohibited withoutwritten permission. 344-2929 Ihatch@heraldextra.com | Deep, unstable mud hinders efforts to dig out area Still. provincial Gov. Rosette Lerias said she was hoping for “a miracle”andshesaid rescue dogs would be sent to the Hrvoje Hranjski GUINSAUGON, Philippines — Hopingfor a miracle,rescue workersinthePhilippines searched for survivorsSaturday in an elementary school swamped bya massive landslide that buried this town and killed some1,809 people. No moresurvivors were found, however, and reports that students and teachers sent cell phone text messages from inside went unconfirmed,leaving the search effort dispirited and empty-handed. Fearing more landslides in the area, 11 villages were evacuated as steamedto the scene. Asrain continuedtofall, rescue workers were warned to tread carefully or risk becoming casualties themselvesas the uneasy mudsettled, a dayafter the slope of a mountaincollapsed Friday. ue,” she said. “I am givingit the benefit of the doubt, and that is why we are concentrating onthe schoolbuilding.” * Not muchelse wasleft to con; centrate on. Survivorsandrelatives of the missing had trouble even figuring out where houses once, stoodin the 100-acrestretch of » mud.Soldiers,firefighters and + volunteers were given sketches, of thevillage asit stood just daysago,butall the landmarks had been wiped away. “It hardtofind the houses and nephews and a numberof: in-laws. “Thereis nothing now, just earth and mud.” The search was complicated by heavy morning downpours, the threat that the mountain remained unstable and the possibility that 750 troops,firefeWers and volunteerscould get sucked downinto thesoft, shifting:mud. Weatherforecasts said Leyte was expected to get morerain late Saturday and Sunday before conditions improve. The area, whichis proneto landslides and flooding, has been Thelandslide, whichfollowed two weeksof heavyrains, was believed to havekilled nearly every man, womanandchildin the farmingvillage of Guinsaugon, which was covered with mudupto 30feet deep. Thesituation wasso delicate that a no-fly zone was established over the area out of con- cernthatblastsof air from the helicopters’ rotors could send the mudoozing againin Guinsaugon,about 400 miles south- drenched by 27inchesof rain over the last two weeks. east of the capital, Manila. Medical supplies and excavation equipment were reaching ArmyCapt. Edmund Abella called the conditions extremely hazardous. “A few minutes ago, mounds of earth came down from the mountainagainwiththe rain ae rescuers ran awaytosafe“he said, Survivors blamed ileal logg: s for contributing tothedis: As new of the scale of the devastationreachedinternational shores, emergencysupplies,financialaid and offers of condolences pouredin. In Geneva,theinternational Red Cross appealed for $1.5 million to buy temporaryshelter materials and other emergency health and cooking items. the area on Leyte island, and US.military ships were expected at daybreak Sunday with 1,000 Marines to add tothe aid effort. But with nosurvivors found Saturday, it appeared the operation would be recovery insteadofrelief. Only 57 people were plucked from the mud Friday from Guinsaugon's population of 1,857. 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