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April 22, 1982
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By Scott McCullar
OKAY, CLASS, TODAY WE'RE
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TO WRITE A REAL ATTENTION
GETTING "LETTER-TO-THE-
EDITOR."
MOST OF THE LETTERS IN THE
PAPER SERVE A USEFUL PURPOSE,
AND VOICE NEEDED CONIPLIMEVIS
OR COMPLAINTS, OR EVEN
POINTS OF ARGUMENT...
RUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO
COVER ARE THE LETTERS MEANT
TO POKE THE READER IN THE EYE
WITH THEIR OPINION AND
MAKE THEM SHOUT OUT
THEIR RESPONSE..
SO TOMORROW WERE GOING
TO LEARN TO COMPOSE LETTERS
DESIGNED TO UPSET PEOPLE,
TOY WITH THEIR ANGER, AND
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Grain elevator blast
kills five, injures 23
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa —
Firefighters worked Wednesday
to douse the flames from an ex
plosion that ripped through a
corn and soybean elevator, kill
ing five men and injuring 23
others in the Midwest’s worst
grain blast on record.
The five victims were work
ing inside the Bluffs Elevator
Co. Tuesday when a massive ex
plosion tore through the mid
section of the 50-year-old struc
ture with such force that it in
jured a railroad crew 80 yards
away and blew a grain-loading
team from the top of a boxcar.
Five hours later, authorities
abandoned the search for the
men trapped inside the flaming
structure, which passed a state
inspection less than a month
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“ There is too much fire,”
Assistant Council Bluffs Fire
Chief Delbert Burdick said
Wednesday. “Anyone inside
would have no chance for sur
vival.”
Police Lt. Ernie Gray said au
thorities were concerned a
trucker may have been a sixth
victim of the blast, but said he
may have left before the blast.
Authorities said 23 people
were hurt and 12 remained hos-
spiking ties about 80 yards away
from tnt
pitalized Tuesday night — two
in serious condition.
Firefighters doused the smol
dering rubble, hoping to cool it
down, but said it would be days
before the fire is extinguished.
Assistant Fire Chief Laverne
McKeown said he believed grain
dust caused the explosion,
adding: “That’s what we always
assume first in a situation like
this.”
The blast and fire destroyed
the elevator’s 135 foot-high, tin-
covered wooden center. An
adjacent shop and office also
were destroyed.
Gray said the victims, who
were not immediately identi
fied, were in an area where
trucks are loaded, two others
were in the scale house and one
was running a conveyor belt.
Union Pacific Railroad
spokesman Joe McCartney said
a 16-man UP track gang was
te elevator when its mid
section blew up.
Authorities at first feared the
men, who had been loading a
boxcar, were missing in the
blast, but they were hospitalized
after being blown off it.
Maurice Van Nostrand, a
spokesman for AGRI Industries
in Des Moines, Iowa, which
owns the elevator, said damage
to the elevator —jammed with
corn and soybeans — could be as
high as $10 million.
The elevator passed a 1 'A-day
state inspection with no prob
lems March 30, said Wallace
Dick, director of the warehouse
division of the Iowa Commerce
Commission. The inspection
was required because AGRI
bought the elevator from En-
derlin Grain Co. of Enderlin,
N.D., Sept. 15, Van Nostrand
said.
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