
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 21, 1990                   TAG: 9007210014
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-10   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
DATELINE: MANILA, PHILIPPINES                                LENGTH: Short

QUAKE TOLL NOW 659; TWO AMERICANS DEAD

The death toll from Monday's earthquake soared to 659, including a U.S. Marine pilot surveying quake damage who was killed Friday when his small observation plane crashed into a wooded mountain outside the devastated city of Baguio.

Another Marine was hurt in the crash, bringing the latest official figures for quake-related injuries to more than 1,300.

The Marines' OV-10 observation plane crashed about 3 miles southwest of Baguio while surveying what appears to be a broad swath of destruction caused by the quake and more than 384 recorded aftershocks.

Reports reaching Manila indicated that huge landslides had damaged scores of isolated villages in the northern mountains of Luzon Island.

"We've had some reports of measles and typhoid breaking out in some smaller villages," Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said.

U.S. officials withheld the name of the dead Marine pilot until his family could be notified. The injured Marine was taken to a hospital at Camp John Hay in Baguio.

At least one other American was killed in the quake. Richard Finley of Washington, D.C., who was here under contract for the U.S. Agency for International Development, was killed when Baguio's Nevada Hotel collapsed.

by CNB