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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 04, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday november 4. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 3 rescued from burning Home air turd howled hurries o an ambulance with 3-year-old Crystal Amos after she was thrown to rescuers by her Mother from a second floor window. Crystal s grandmother died in he Blae at Sumner ore., East of Coos Bay. The girl s Molher escaped injury hut her brother is in Crit ical condition. Louisiana governor outlines Juan s ravages Jonesville. La. F a gov. Edwin Edwards after an Aerial Survey of parishes flooded by Hurricane Juan said of the devastation to his state. On a scale of i to 10, i d say it s a i0  president Reagan has declared three parishes disaster areas making them eligible for Federal emergency Relief the governor said after touring flood areas b helicopter and a 2 / ton National guard truck. Jefferson  and Terrebonne parishes the hardest hit areas in 1 Wisiana. Were declared disaster areas. A air. Said he expected Reagan to make similar Decla rations for St. C Harles. St. Bernard and St. John the Baptist parches. The governor said he planned to add up to eight More parishes to the list after his Lour. We will see the scars of this for months Edwards said. Some of the dam age. W in never be  Edwards said 50.000 to 100,000 Homes were flooded during Juan s siege As up to a foot of rain fell or the area and High tides and swollen Rivers battered levees. Several multimillion Dollar Oil rigs were sunk or heavily damaged and More than half the slate s soybean and sugar Cane Crom were destroyed he said. The governor promised a Survey to Sec what levees could be build and which ones improved to prevent such a flood again. Except for those hurricanes that claimed lives because of High winds. I be never seen any More damage Edwards said. A Woholo an elderly resident of Olden Meadow 1-a., Nith nothing to do but wait for floodwater to subside sees in Lap Al his front porch. Rescuers find 1 survivor 3 bodies after mudslide Marblemount. Wash. Up the bodies of three people were uncovered saturday by volunteers who rescued a Man from a Mobile Home crushed by a massive mudslide caused by heavy rainfall in the Cascade mountains. Two elderly couples had been preparing to play cards Friday night when a 200-fool-Widc and 15-foot-deep Wall of mud slammed through the Home and across the Cascade River authorities said. Three neighbouring Homes were damaged but their occupants fled to safety. The survivor Clair Wilson 63, was found shortly after Midnight suffering from hypothermia a crushed left Arm and injuries to his Lei leg. Geneva san Cut a Hospital spokeswoman said Wilson was in critical condition following surgery. Officials said it appeared he suffered from oxygen deprivation during the eight hours he was buried under the mud. Rescue workers recovered the bodies of Wilson s wife Betty 62, and Alice Bower Early saturday. The body of William Bower was recovered late saturday. The Bowers were reported by friends to be in the 70s. Both men were retired from a Public Utility company in Seattle. The Mobile Home was in a private recreational Camp ground. The Home was smashed and buried by the mud and debris which went right through it said Gary Stewart owner of the Marblemount mercantile. Stewart said the women s bodies were found next to what had been the Kitchen table separated by a giant log that crashed through the Wall. Wilson was found about 25 feel outside the destroyed Mobile Home. After they got him out he said he had heard a noise and was standing in the doorway when in  Stewart said. The log shoved through the Wall and slammed into a Couch that knocked him outside and landed on lop of him. In probably saved his life because even though in was covered by several feet of mud the Couch created a Small air pocket for  an official said heavy rainfall apparently loosened dirt in the area causing the slide  
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