European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 o the stars and stripes monday october 13.1986 Rescue efforts continue in san Salvador san Salvador Al Salvador Cap efforts continued saturday night to save hundreds of people trapped in buildings that collapsed in Friday s Earth quake and president Jose Napoleon Duarte said 300 people were killed and 6,500 injured. There was no official count of the number of people buried and estimates continued to fluctuate. We Don t know How Many More arc in inc ruins of buildings and houses in the affected zone Duane Laid at a news conference earlier As Rescue workers and Relief Aid began arriving from All Over the world. In a nationally televised interview broadcast after Duarte s statement bul taped before it Gen. Adolf Blandon armed forces chief of staff said there were about 400 dead As of saturday morning and added this number cont i nuts to grow.". The International red Cross earlier set the death loll at 400 Wilh 6,000 injured but Duane s figure was considered More reliable. Workers snuggled under portable spotlights to re move tons of twisted Concrete and steel at the site of one of the fallen structures. American Glenn Patlon said 1b survivors were freed from the wreckage of thai building. Paiton is District chief of Florida s Dade county fire Rescue department which sent a team o help locate survivors. Gen Rinaldo Golcher chief of the Treasury police said earlier hat Riboul 300 people were believed buried in that building and an identical one nearby. The quake hit shortly before noon Friday and was followed by a series of aftershocks. San Salvador a City of 800,000 people was almost entirely Cul off from the rest of the country. A report by the International red Cross in Geneva said Relief workers sent to san Salvador reported the quake left More than 20,000 people homeless. Leftist rebels fighting a 7-year-old War against the unsupported government declared an indefinite cease fire because of the quake. The presidential Palace the . Embassy six major hospitals and several schools were severely damaged. . Spokesmen said nine americans suffered minor injuries at the embassy. Ernesto Ferrero head of the salvadoran red Cross said his medical teams treated 5,000 injured in the first few hours. Most had cuts from shattered windows he said. I was in my office yesterday when the earthquake struck at about noon said Ricardo Ayala a civil Engi Neer who was pinned four hours inside his third floor office of the Ruben Dario building before being res cued on Friday. I owe my life to my desk and my chair. I fell be tween them and they were collapsed to about this size he said holding h is hands Aboul 18 inches apart. Ayala 50, later helped locate Oiler survivors. Forty bodies were counted outside a girls school in the working class neighbourhood of san Jacinto one deadline