Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 1999, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lop rate Gic a conditions May 277hmfenm a msgr Ems Tortat 9157420 7sm040 9257390 9257423 Winnipeg free press Canada More Canada and world news a10andb2 september 1999 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 1 lived on the ninth floor but now its the fourth floor Rescue workers examine a twelve Storey building that collapsed in Taipei Early today after an earthquake measuring struck the Island Taiwan shaken to death quake kills toll expected to Rise from Preu Tersip Taipei the strongest quake in Taiwan in decades jolted the Island Early wrecking a 12storey hotel in destroying More than 100 Homes Island wide and killing at least 637 the government about people were injured and authorities feared the toll could the quake had a preliminary magnitude of and was centred about 150 Kilometres South Southwest of the geological surveys National earthquake information Centre it also issued warnings of possible or huge Waves that sometimes follow the quake was about the same strength As the devastating one that struck Turkey on killing More than in the Island country Cap the quake wrecked the 78room Sun Shan collapsing the Bot Tom storeys and setting the badly damaged top listing to one there were no immediate reports of any canadians killed or injured in the said a foreign affairs the hotel hit by the quake did House tourists but it is not in an area where canadians normally Reynald Doiron fire Crews turned hoses on the wreckage As smoke poured from fires raging in several destroyed sixty people were still feared trapped in the with 49 peo ple already evacuated and sent to the Hospital and another 11 people evacuated a woman pulled from the wreck age urged rescuers to look for More of the go Rescue there in there said the unidentified who was dressed in Street clothes and did not appear to be i lived on the ninth floor but now its the fourth 50 people were reported injured when a 12storey apart ment building collapsed in the Taipei suburb an estimated 100 others were still trapped within the which collapsed onto a neighbouring five Storey the death toll continues to Rise and we continue to discover More people being trapped in the collapsed build a spokesman at the govern ments disaster Centre said by Tele it is still very difficult to estimate the extent of the the spokesman the spokesman said a total of 408 people were while 748 peo ple were known to be trapped or buried under the earthquake measured the geological Survey Taiwan weather Bureau recorded the intensity at and said the earthquake was believed to be the strongest Ever to hit severe damage was reported in the town of Puli near the quake Epicen tre but details were an explosion was reported at the towns major a Rice wine and scores of buildings had sustained the broadcasting of China no casualty figures were immediately state radio reports said a Row of houses collapsed in Chang Hua county in Central injuring at least three ten oth ers were believed trapped in the the radio electric and Telephone service was interrupted by the which occurred at about As most of Taiwan 22 million residents state radio said it was followed by six Roseanne of who has been working in Taipei As an eng Lish told ctr she was in bed when the quake this was no i knew right a woman pulled from a Taipei hotel is rushed to away something bad was she the whole building was shaking things were falling she we Are totally in can showed footage from Taipei of people crying for help from the wreckage of fallen one Large building had collapsed like an rescuers guided sem naked or wearing Down ladders to a resident told can that two schools had collapsed and that Stu dents were trapped in one of the report was not immediately con president Lee ten Hui urged people to stay Calm and reassured the Public the government had mobilized All its resources to handle the the Stock and currency markets were ordered to close schools and offices were also in the southwestern Chiang Kai Shek some people brought candles into the Many carried umbrellas to stay out of the huddling around Batter operated in Yung a suburb South of electricity was out in houses but Street lights were Many peo ple left their Homes and stood on the sidewalks in the the quake prompted tsunami warn Ings for the Philip and tsunami Are great Waves that some times follow peacekeepers unopposed in East timor App East timor the International peace Force assigned to bring order to East timers murderous chaos landed without Resis Tance effectively marking the end of Indonesia control after 24 turbulent armoured personnel carriers rolled from the bellies of Hercules transport clattered Down the rubbish strewn streets of Tim Orese refugees in tattered clothes watched in but the real test for the Ber International Force will come when it spreads into Remote areas to protect a still terrified it was unclear whether the militias would fade away or transform themselves into guerrilla fighters sniping and troops move into abandoned capital Home just an email harassing the unwanted in wave after the transport planes from Northern Australia air lifted More than soldiers and tonnes of landmines and the troops arrived in Dili to find a City abandoned by its people and left in smoking with no no elec no clean water and thousands of desperate refugees trying to get within hours of beginning the opera Tion at heavily armed combat troops from new zealand and Britain were in control of the air port and the two vital links to the As they moved through the troops could see Black smoke from fresh fires billowing Over the City in the the glow of flames in the there is a lot of said australian Chip Henri Sander but some residents emerged into the streets to some Shook hands with the troops and about 100 Canadian troops took off for yesterday morn ing As part the unsanctioned peace keeping the flight engineers and a med ical evacuation team will help ferry troops and humanitarian two c130 Hercules transport planes Are to follow the Canadian the Canadian air Crew will be ready to move into East timor by the end of the said Chris commanding officer of the Airlift task yesterdays Airlift was to continue through the and by Daybreak this morning operation commanders said they hoped to have troops in the Hal Island its been quite an encouraging everything gone very said Duncan the australian military spokesman in the arrival of the Force just five Days after it was authorized by the in Security Council spelled the beginning of the end of indonesian Rule in East where four fifths of the people voted for Independence in an 30 despite threats to attack the inter National there was no sign of the pro indonesian militias with the Connivance of the indonesian launched a Campaign of terror and driving tens of thousands of people from their Homes in Hopes of nullifying the an indonesian news report yester Day said the militia groups have banded together to form a calling itself the United nation the group said it rejected the results of the a sponsored we wont attack the in peace keeping we Only want to defend our coalition chief Joao a Silva Tavares said in a report broadcast on Indonesia sctt Televik ;