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Typhoon Paka rolled across northern Guam Tuesday with wind gusting to 175 m.p.h., causing injuries and major damage, emergency workers said. No deaths were reported. The island was without electricity, knocking out weather recording instruments, although phones were still in service. “We’ve got houses flying,” said John Myers, spokesman for the fire department on the island of nearly 135,000 people. Twenty injuries, mostly from collapsing homes, were reported but apparently none was life-threatening, according to Civil Defense officials. Hundreds of people left their homes for emergency shelters in schools, and some people who stayed behind had to be pulled from the wreckage after their houses fell on them.
