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Cloudy, 30 Percent chance of ram. High 50-56. 10 _Ugton I '0st rda 'W'T range YM De Sections A News/Editonls B SqWek~ C Metro/ObituanestClamfwd D Sports E &mmmw~ Insidc We&ea Ddaild i~daox Page A2 250 10tri[YEAR ... NO~ 345 0 im The wa*Arg~ P" c~-, FRIDAY, NUMER 15,1985 Colonibian Volcano Erupts, Survivors Recall Night of Horror By Bradley Graham MMUQUITA, Colombia, Nov. 14-It came over them in the black of night, with the soddenness and force of a giant wave, swallowing everything in its wake. Survivors of Armero, the Colombian cot- too-growing town drowned in a river of mud and stones after the Nevado del Ruiz vol- cam erupted, told today of a night of horror in which farnily members were torn from each other as they struggled for air and se- care ground. Caked with mud, burned by the scalding temperature of the river of dirt and debris that overwhelmed their town, cut and bat- tered from being dragged hundreds of yards across the valley floor, some of the victims of Armezo were brought here to this neigh- boring village by Red Cross, Civil Guard and Army units. They were unloaded from helicopters and transported in jeeps, trucks and other makeshift ambulances to a small, over- crowded country hospital. There they lay on crowded beds or cuts and wafted, many with tubes in their arms feeding medicine, to be evacuated to hospitals in Bogota. Some wept. Others. dres.~ed only in the underwear or bedclothes they had on when the disaster struck, shivered in shock in the warm air here. The stories they recounted had haunting simillatrities-about awakening in their homes =re midnight to cries of alarm and a heavy rain of ash, about grabbing children and the elderly, then fleeing to the streets, about finding nowhere to run as the Lagunilla River, normally just a tributary of the valley's main Magdalena River, turned into a raging mass of liquid earth. Doris Rico Aldania, 21, said the river of mud and rocks came crashing through the doors and windows of her home, pursuing See ARMERO, A34, CoL 5 Approved For Release 2000/08/08 : CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1200050004-0 Thousands Red Cross Sea Toll Up to 20,000 By Bradley Graham Wiiw_ P_ F~ MARIQUITA, Colombia, Nov. 14-A volcano in central Colombia erupted last night, triggering floods in valleys below that buffed large sections of at leaa two towns under tons of mud and rubble- Government and Red Cross officials said the death toll could reach 20,000. President Belisano Betawur declared a national emergency as Army, Civil Defense and Red Cross teams rushed to the disaster wrie located around the , 17,400-foot Nevado del Ruk volcano, about 85 miles northwest of Bogota. -fhe tragedy is imineasurable,- said the preskienL who visited the devastated rL- gion this morning. 'It is a new tragedy that has hit CokfmW be said, afluding to the siege of the Palace of Justice an Bogota last week in which 97 persons were kilLed. "But rm sure that with the solidarity of the world and in the country, we will over- come," he added. Part of the volcano's top expleaed late yesterday, breaking off chunks of snow near the summit, The ice melted rapidly into cas- cadiag waters that gathered dirt and debris and tamed the rivers at the mountain7s base into killer currents The inundation took inhabitants of this fairming region by surprise during the night, the mountain despite recent warnings that might erupt. It had been diumant for 400 yea. but had become restless in recent months. Colombian geologists said the volcano, the second highest peak in Colombia's cen- tral range of the Andes, might continue erupting, further threatening populations below it. The government issued urgent appeals S- VOLCANO, A34, Cok I m Nwafisolfharnifortictrentorsprecated life Nevado del Ruiz blast Page A34 a .it And "k a couple h" dau&- A- being r-ed from Artnero. - Unidentified child pulled from house hit by 15-fod wall of mud sib dawd near Armem Three children, whose parents am missinM sleeP in the back Of a truck as they wait for I behoolfter to fift them ed of Antem The girl in the foreground luts a briken left ankle. Approved For Release 2000/08/08 CIA-RDP96-00789ROO1200050004-0 SHINGTON POST 7HE NEVADA DEL -RUIZ CPYRGHT 3 f f I f App 4 River bano ~Guafi River NX Minliales 6WnihIna Icanic eruption: magma reservoir ounderneath the volcano increases in V size and pushes upwards. When rock strata can no longer contain the - - , -". pressurized magma, lava erupts through fissures. Nevado del Ruiz erupted op,its northeastern side. melting its ice6p ind causing huge quantities of mud to flow down its flanking rivers. BY JO ELLEN MURPHY - THE WASHINGTON largest mud slides in South Amer- ican history. The USGS' Dr. Darrel G. Herd described it as a "wall of mud, trees and ice that went racing down the vAley to the Rio Mag- dalena, killing an estimated 1,000 people" then living in the valley. Why did Nevado del Ruiz go al- most 400 years without a major eruption? Geologists say they don't know, but -many suspect it is in the makeup of the magma that lies be- low the volcanoes that formed the Andes Mountains. "The magmas in the Andes are very viscous and stickier,. let's say, than the magmas that lie beneath the Hawaiian volcanoes," Christian- 5River7--7 River NEVA DEL RUIZ ICE CAP 7, sen said. This means they retain their gases, allowing pressure to build, rather than venting them in a way that would relieve the pressure that builds up inside volcanoes, he said. "Hawaiian volcanoes are al- ways blowing off pressure, which might be one reason they don't erupt catastrophically." Another reason fies with volca- noes themselves, among the most unpredictable phenomena of nature. Said Dr. Meyer Rubin of the USGS: "Volcanoes can go 1,000 years without an eruption. There's no way to predict.their behavior." The upward movement of 'magma can continue off and on for years, 001 RD building in strength until it exce the weight of the rocks above t are holding it in. The result can another eruption. The tviiin-er-upt of Nevado del Ruiz Wednes, night could thus signal the- stari an eruptive period that ~could another 10 years. There is also the chince t Nevado del Ruiz will have-an imp on the world's weather. Depend on how much sulfur dioxide ga pumps into the upper atmosph( the erupting volcano could sen, cloud of gas and dust around world blocking just enough sunli from reaching the surfaoe --to the earth by a degree or 66. 41-1- 0 (K' 5 Z~ MILES Magdalena Dw River ,o