The Nation - News from Oct. 15, 1985

Puerto Rican National Guardsmen and volunteers began digging at 165 specific shantytown sites pointed out by search dogs as spots where victims of last week’s mud slide are probably buried. The hunt for survivors was ended. The trained dogs, sniffing through the rubble of the hillside village of Mameyes, had indicated the locations where bodies might be found, and each site was marked with a small flag. Gov. Rafael Hernandez Colon on Sunday night called off the search for survivors of the floods and slides that devastated southern Puerto Rico during torrential rains on Oct. 6-7.