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43 trains derail, 3 explode
United Press International
LIVINGSTON, La. — A
third explosion rocked a “war
of 43 derailed railroad
zone
cars early Wednesday, shooting
shrapnel through homes, and
officials feared toxic fumes
would force more people to join
the 3,000 already evacuated.
The cars derailed in the mid
dle of the southeast Louisiana
city and one exploded early
Tuesday, triggering a fire that
sparked two later blasts. Offi-
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balls might wipe the town off the
map.
A tank car carrying tetraethyl
lead, a gasoline additive, burst
about 4 p.m. Tuesday and a
third car loaded with vinyl chlor
ide exploded just after midnight
Wednesday, sending metal
flying through the air.
“Parts of the tank are strewn
about town,” said State Police Lt.
Ronnie Jones. “It broke out win
dows in some homes.
“It looks like a very small war
zone.”
Shifting winds were keeping
toxic smoke close to the ground,
Jones said, and more evacua
tions were possible. The evacu
ated area extended 5 miles to the
north and northwest of Living
ston and one mile to the south
and east.
Air quality experts were
monitoring the smoke and che
mical cloud for dangerous subst
ances.
Emergency workers moved
about 25 cars from the scene late
Tuesday, but were prevented
from fighting the fire by the
volatility and variety of chemic
als. Water was worthless and
flame-smothering foam was
ruled out because it would con
centrate heat on already stressed
tank cars.
“We’re just sitting on a pow
der keg with a fuse, hoping that
the fuse will go out before it ex
plodes,” Jones said.
Gov. David Treen cut short a
Florida vacation and was ex
pected to visit the derailment
site today.
Officials had feared an explo
sion of the tetraethyl lead would
produce a fireball up to one-half
mile wide. But leaking pressure
in the car lessened the blast.
At least seven cars carried
vinyl chloride, which is flamm
able and can produce poisonous
gases when burned. It also can
cause dizziness or suffocation
and irritate skin and eyes.
Many of the 3,000 evacuees
stayed with relatives while
others gathered at emergency
shelters set up at high schools in
the nearby communities of Wal
ker and Holden.
Emergency crews remained
near the scene throughout the
night.
Only two minor injuries were
reported as residents fled
Livingston, a town of 2,000 ab
out 20 miles east of Baton
Rouge. At least three tank cars
and four homes caught fire and
were destroyed after the derail
ment and first explosions at 5
a.m. Tuesday.
Lt. Gov. Bobby Freeman de
clared a state of emergency to
allow police to control the area
and physically remove strag
glers who stayed in their homes
or later sneaked back through a
wooded area.
Officials had not determined
what caused the Illinois Central
Gulf train to derail. Crew mem
bers apparently escaped without
injury and railroad officials at
the scene declined comment.
Wallace victorious
in primary election
United Press International
MONTGOMERY, Ala. —
George Wallace, a runoff win
ner with black support despite
his segregationist past, cannot
walk and is almost deaf, but
has a strong chance for a re
cord fourth term as Alabama’s
governor in November.
Wallace, 63, will be match
ed in the general election
against Republican Emory
Folmar, the pistol-toting
mayor of Montgomery, in this
deep south state that has not
elected a Republican Party
chief executive since 1872.
Wallace edged Lt. Gov.
George McMillan, 38, for the
Democratic nomination Tues
day with a strong showing in
Black Belt counties and other
rural areas.
He maintained he did it
despite a heavy Republican
crossover vote for McMillan.
With 4115 of 4144, or 99.3
percent, of the precincts re
porting, Wallace had 505,243
votes, or 51 percent, to McMil
lan's 486,223 or 49 percent.
“We’re not governor yet,”
said Wallace in his victory
speech. “We are going to be
governor in November. I
want to thank the broad mass
of Alabama citizenry, black
and white, for the support
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Wallace swayed blacks who
believed he underwent a deep
religious train, experience af
ter Arthur Bremer shot him
in a Maryland shopping cen-
Wallace swayed blacks
who believed he
underwent a deep reli
gious train, experi
ence after Arthur
Bremer shot him in a
Maryland shopping
center during his third
presidential campaign
in 1972 and left him
paralyzed for life.
ter during his third presiden
tial campaign in 1972 and left
him paralyzed for life.
“He is the only white man to
openly apologize to blacks and
say he was in error,” said Mac
Hollis, 64, a retired black
school teacher who marked
his ballot for Wallace.
“I have forgiven him. I am
going to get me some walking
shoes and hit the streets,”
said.
Another black who void
for Wallace, Alabama S®
University student Eric Bob!
er, 20, said he did not tat
time to protest the past.
“My grandparents said
was bad in the ‘60s and thti
lived through it andtheyart
supporting Wallace, too,
Bouler said.
McMillan received aboil
two-thirds of the vote inmos
of the state’s metropoliias
areas, but the city votewasnoi
sufficient to overpower W;
lace’s strength in rural Ala
bama.
Although McMillan
the support of the slates
largest black political organs
zation and such national blad
leaders as Coretta King
widow of Dr. Martin Luthet
King, and Jesse Jackson of
Operation Push, Wall!
urged the state’s blacks notti
let anyone tell them howtt
vote.
He reminded them he hat
provided free textbool
trade schools and junior a
leges during his three pit
vious terms.
Wallace has dominateil
state politics for most of th
past two decades.
Judge drops
palimony suit
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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Vicki Mor
gan’s sensational palimony suit
against Alfred Bloomingdale
and his widow has been dropped
by a judge who ruled she was
nothing more than “a well-paid
mistress” to the presidential con
fidante.
But Superior Court Judge
Christian Markey ruled Tues
day trial may proceed on two
parts of the suit based on con
tracts Bloomingdale, 66,
allegedly signed in a hospital
shortly before he died of cancer
last summer.
Those actions seek $10,000-
a-month support for Morgan
for two years and half of the p
fits from his share of ajoinriui
ness venture.
Morgan, 30, who filed th.
$11 million suit in July, saidsbt
was extremely disippointet ;
with the decision.
The sensational suit, filed in
attorney Marvin Mtchelsori
who won the landmaik Marvir 1
vs. Marvin palimony siit, shod 1
ed Beverly Hills socety ani
embarrassed the White Houx
Bloomingdale, a cofouidero .
the Diner’s Club and a nemlw
of President Reagan’s “litche
cabinet,” and his wife of 35year f
were frequent guests at tin '•
White House.
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