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BEST AVAILABLE COPY page Twelve Section A QJif Arizona Bailij Slar Tucson, Saturday, October 11, 1997 WORLD 1 I Milll 11 III 1 111 1 1 Pauline's 'horrible roar' foretold massive destruction; 141 dead SITTTiJlTTiTi'CinL'TiTT II7W J.l 1 1 I'll 5. COMING SOON to The Foothills Mall DESIGNER SHOE OUTLET I Jo Jj Gel the bodies claimed by Pauline, which weakened to a tropical depression yesterday as it broke apart inland up the coast. "There will probably be more deaths," President Ernesto Zedillo acknowledged from Berlin, where he cut short a state visit to fly home. Zedillo rejected criticism that his government had reacted too slowly to Pauline, noting he had immediately ordered in troops. "Of course we've got problems of communications; some roads were interrupted," )ie said.

"But I think we have reacted effectively to the extent possible under the circumstances." Rescuers digging out bodies from mud and collapsed buildings brought them to the local morgue, where 65 bodies were laid out for identification some of the corpses contorted and dressed in night clothes. Thousands of people along the coast have been left homeless. From Acapulco to Huatulco, and in small communities in between, army troops moved in yesterday. Dozens of soldiers shoveled sand away after an impromptu river ran through the main strip of the battered tourist town of Puerto Angel, Oaxaca. Puerto Angel where Pauline first hit land Wednesday was packed yesterday with hundreds of homeless people seeking government handouts of food and water.

Scores of small towns saw homes destroyed across hundreds of miles of coast during the assault by Pauline, which drove enormous waves against exposed beaches and raked away thatch and makeshift homes with 120-mph winds at first landfall. ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) Survivors told of "a horrible roar" of floodwaters that swept away whole families, and workers dug into muck 10 feet deep yesterday in a hunt for the victims of Hurricane Pauline's rampage. The bodies, some found in pajamas, piled up in morgues as the death toll rose to at least 141. More than 6,500 army troops were ordered into areas ravaged by the hurricane. Aid groups appealed for drinking water, medicine, food, blankets and other supplies for the thousands of Mexicans up and down the coast who have been left homeless.

Hundreds of military doctors and nurses joined local health workers in treating survivors in Acapul-co. The Pacific Coast resort was caught off-guard Thursday when the hurricane skirted the city but unleashed rains that set off widespread floods that swept sleeping people, cars and even giant boulders down hills toward the city's famed beaches. Waves up to 30 feet tall gouged up the beaches themselves. The dead included at least 113 people in Aca-pulco, said Oscar Pina Camara, a health official for Guerrero state. Authorities said the toll was rounded out by nine other deaths in Guerrero and 19 in neighboring Oaxaca state, where the hurricane began its march up hundreds of miles of seaboard on Wednesday.

No foreign tourists were reported killed or injured. More rain sent a foot of muddy floodwaters into low-lying streets of Acapulco yesterday, but with none of the ferocity of the previous day. Many feared that concrete culverts filled with 10 feet of muck, debris and tree trunks could hold more of $50.00 Cash Back wany purchase of $50000 to $999" Does not apply to prior sales or other offers SALE ENDS 10-13-97 I $100.00 Cash Back wany purchase of $1000 to $1999" Does not apply to prior sales or other offers SALE ENDS 10-13-97 fi Nora's light' damage is still costly to state Eft 1 1 Frt AACU DANf I- VHWn 0HVI1 on everything in store $200.00 Cash Back wany purchase of $200000 or more Does not apply to prior sales or other offers SALE ENDS 10-13-97 Every Dining Set Every Bedroom Set Every Bookcase Every Entertainment Center Every Desk, flat, roll top file cabinet Every Living Room set, occasion table Every Curio China Cabinet Every Glider Rocker HISS I The. Before Sales Tax. 405 E.

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But light damage carries a price tag: a prelirninary damage estimate of $2.7 million to local government property and another $350,000 to state property, said John Paulsen, a spokesman for the state Division of Emergency Management. State officials are still waiting for final figures from counties; the final total probably will be more like $4 million, Paulsen said. And figures so far don't include private property damage, in the Wickenburg area, just to the northwest. "We were a mountain range away," Paulsen said. "If that had happened in the metro area that deluge that happened in Wickenburg and Aguila we would have some significant damage to report to you." In Mohave County, emergency management coordinator Jim Hill said he'll request about $10,000 from the state to help pay for sandbagging and road closures.

"It wasn't as bad as it could have been," Hill said. "The brunt of the storm turned east toward Wickenburg. A matter of a few more miles and we could have experienced much heavier damage." Some of the public property damage is insured. Other damage can be covered by the governor's emergency fund, which receives $4 million a year to handle such emergencies, Paulsen said. which still is being assessed, Paulsen said.

Some estimates of crop damage, particularly in the Yuma area, had ranged as high as $200 NORA'S LEGACY Yavapai County: $843,000. Maricopa County: $816,000. Yuma County: $735,000. La Paz County: $285,000. Gila County: $10,000.

Mohave County: $10,000 (not yet reported to state). State property: $350,000. Prelirninary estimates of public property damage reported to the state Division of Emergency Management. million. But the final total for crop damage will likely be a small fraction of that, Paulsen said.

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