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Disaster strikes El Salvador
By Niko Price
The Associated Press
SANTA TECLA, El Salvador —
With the ground settling and time
passing, rescuers said Monday that
the chance of finding survivors from
an earthquake that killed more than
400 people is slipping — though
one man was freed after using his
cell phone to call for help.
Hundreds of people remained
buried beneath a mountain of rock
and earth in the Las Colinas neigh
borhood here, some three miles
west of the capital.
Residents complained that the
government allowed landowners
over the years to clear trees from the
hillside, alleging that the lack of
ground cover could leave those be
low vulnerable to landslides.
Saturday’s magnitude-7.6 quake
loosened that hillside, burying the
middle-class neighborhood at its
base and bringing down some of the
mansions above.
Although the largest number of
deaths appeared to be in Las Coli
nas, the quake caused landslides
across El Salvador, burying coffee
workers and blocking roads. Num
bers from official sources varied
wildly.
The national emergency commit
tee said at least 403 people were
confirmed dead. But the emergency
committee for the Santa Tecla re
gion said 436 were dead here alone.
The local committee said 366 re
mained missing — hundreds less
than the figure given Saturday by
the Red Cross.
Six other people were killed in
neighboring Guatemala, and three
more were feared dead.
With nearly 5,000 houses de
stroyed and tens of thousands more
damaged in El Salvador, many peo
ple were living with relatives or in
shelters.
Others who still had homes
lacked basic services. Water service
was cut to as many as half of the
country’s 6 million people, the Pan
American Health Organization said.
The World Food Program began
distributing food to 13,000 people
and had enough to last two weeks.
Officials planned to seek more dona
tions.
Aftershocks continued to rock the
country on Monday, frightening res
idents and knocking more debris
onto highways. Many towns were
reachable only by helicopter, and
little was known about damage or
deaths in isolated communities.
In Las Colinas, the city, environ
mentalists and residents had sued
landowners and construction com
panies to stop the deforestation of
the hillside. A judge had ruled
against them, and angry residents
on Monday argued that the result
ing development had caused hun
dreds of deaths.
“What good does money do us if
we are subjecting our children to
something like this?” asked Santa
Tecla Mayor Oscar Ortiz.
After two days of rescue efforts,
officials pulled Sergio Moreno from
beneath a pile of cinder blocks and
earth late Sunday, raising hopes that
more may be found alive. But kid
ney and heart failure left Moreno
fighting for his life on Monday.
While buried, Moreno had used
his cell phone to call for help. After
31 hours waiting to be freed, he be
gan to lose faith. At one point, an
guished, he told rescuers: “You
stayed here to watch me die. ”
Army Maj. Jose Miranda said
there was little chance more sur
vivors would be found, adding that
the majority of those under the rub
ble who weren’t killed instantly
likely had already suffocated.
“Nonetheless, at 4 a.m. they
pulled out a body that still had
warm blood on it, so anything is
possible,” he said.
Kathia Machaca has lost all hope
that her parents and two oldest
daughters will be found alive. Res
cuers found the body of one of her
children, 5-year-old Kathia. But she
has no information on the others.
Pulling a child’s sock from the
mud, she said: “I’m finding every
thing from the house except the
most important things.”
She has stayed at the spot where
her parents’ house used to be since
the quake, and she vowed not to
leave.
“I won’t move from here until
they find the bodies,” she said,
weeping.
Her daughter, who had been rid
ing her bicycle when the earthquake
struck, was found hugging a boy.
“Maybe she was afraid,” Machaca
said.
She was afraid to see her hus
band, an electrician in Los Angeles
who was scheduled to arrive on
Monday.
“I don’t know what I’ll tell him,”
she said. “This is hard.”
Her brother, Oscar, 25, also lived
at the house, but had been at work as
a chauffeur when the quake struck.
“I ran home after the quake be
cause I thought my mother would
be worried about me, but ... ” he
said, pausing with tears running
down his cheeks.
“I felt like I was dying. ”
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