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EPISCOPAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION :The group meets
for Holy Eucharist and supper at 5:30 p.m. at the Canterbury
House, 902 Jersey St.
SAILING CLUB:There will be a general meeting at 7 p.m. in
501 Rudder.
SCUBA CLUB:Bring skin-diving gear and suit to the organiza
tional meeting at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
SUMMER DINNER THEATER.Good tickets for “A Shot in
the Dark” showing June 16 to 19 are still available and may be
purchased 24 hours in advance at Rudder box office.
One dies in Amtrak wreck;
high winds, flooding blamed
United Press International
EMERSON, Iowa — An
Amtrak Superliner carrying 275
passengers jumped the tracks
Tuesday and plunged several
cars into a rain-swollen creek.
One passenger was killed and up
to 150 others injured, author
ities said.
“We were just asleep and
started bouncing around,” said
Jay Brown, riding the San Fran
cisco Zephyr with his wife and
three children. “Water started
rolling in. That was the scary
part. We were in the big front
the flooded creek, Mills County
sheriffs officials said. The cars
remained upright, although
half the cars — which included
four coaches, three baggage,
four sleeper and one diner car
at about 45-degree
sleeper car of the first passenger — tilted
car on the bottom.” angles.
Part of the 12-car Chicago to About 500 rescue workers
San Francisco train landed in from a 40-mile area rushed to
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passengers out of the cars.
“Our compartment flooded
and we had to swim out,” Brown
said. “My wife and kids found
the stairs and we went upstairs
until they took us out.”
One woman was killed in the
crash, said Allen Pohran, assis-
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gomery County Hospital in
nearby Red Oak. Her name was
being withheld pending notifi
cation of relatives.
Pohran said 24 or 25 injured
passengers were taken to the
hospital.
“Six or seven have been
admitted here and I expect
more will be admitted,” he said.
Passengers with more serious
injuries were transported to hos
pitals in the Omaha, Neb., area,
about 20 miles west of the crash
site, Pohran said. In all, state dis
aster officials said between 100
and 150 people received minor
injuries in the crash.
“We had about 150 people in
jured,” said Cheri Thomas, pub
lic information officer for the
Iowa State Disaster Services.
“We’re having a communica
tions problem because the
phones are out in the area where
the train derailment occured.”
Rescue workers were only ab
out a mile from the accident at
about 3:15 a.m. CDT, evacuat
ing residents of Emerson,
threatened by raging waters
spawned by powerful thunder
storms.
One of the injured, Kenneth
Moore, 29, a Burlington North
ern fireman from Lincoln, Neb.,
was listed in serious condition at
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Omaha
with a fractured pelvis.
A physician who treated
Moore said the railroad fireman
told him Amtrak provided no
advance warning of the Hood
ing, even though flood warnings
were issued throughout the
night.
“All of a sudden there was no
track there,” the doctor quoted
Moore as saying.
Rescuers tied ropes to the cars
and held them taut as the pas
sengers scaled the steep
embankment at the accident
scene. Boats, helicopters and
stretchers were also used in the
Surgeons
threatening
slowdown
United Press International
MIAMI — Doctors at more
than 10 Florida hospitals
threatened Tuesday to start re
fusing to perform elective
surgery to protest sky-rocketing
malpractice insurance rates.
Doctors claim new rates will
force them to pay as much as
$80,000 a year in premiums.
Dr. Arnold Tanis, chief of
pediatrics at Memorial Hospital
and a leader of the 2,000-
member Florida Physicians Un
ited for Health Cost Reform,
said Monday more than 300
surgeons and specialists in Dade
and Broward counties will take
part in the work slowdown.
Tanis could not say how
many patients will be affected by
the slowdown because he
doesn’t know how long it will
last.
The slowdown w'as
spearheaded by physicians at
Parkway General, North Miami
General, International and
Memorial hospitals. It was plan
ned to protest new rates sche
duled to go into effect July 1.
Some doctors could face in
creases of up to 385 percent,
organizers say.
Originally, the physicians
vowed to stop all emergency
surgery on July 1, but they have
softened that threat.
“There will just be a slow
down,” said Florida Medical
Association President Robert E.
Windom. “(Surgeons) are going
to take care of emergency prob
lems.”
Physicians want a legal limit
placed on malpractice insurance
costs, Tanis said.
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