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Crewmen killed,
two others hurt
in train collision
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NEWCASTLE, Wyo. —Two
crewmen were killed and two
others injured Sunday in a colli
sion involving three Burlington
Northern Railroad coal trains,
the railroad’s second fatal acci
dent in nine days.
oner Mike Worden identified
the dead conductor as Robert E.
Almandinger, 56, of Custer,
S.D., and the brakeman as Mi
chael L. Barney, 31, of Hill City,
S.D.
Les Reingold, spokesman for
the National Transportation
Safety Board, said the collision
occurred at about 6:58 a.m.
EST and involved three loaded
coal trains.
The engineer and head bra
keman in the locomotive of the
moving train were injured and
taken to Weston County Memo
rial Hospital, where they were
admittea for observation. Mar
tin said their injuries did not ap
pear serious.
Burlington Northern spokes
man Jack Martin said said one
eastbound coal train had moved
onto the Pedro, Wyo., siding for
a crew change and a second
train with 110 cars had stopped
next to it on the main line to
pick up the crew and take them
to Edgemont, S.D.
BN spokesman Bill Joplin
identified the injured engineer
as J.M. mcNulty and the brake-
man as W.K. Young. Informa
tion about their hometowns was
unavailable.
He said a third eastbound
coal train with 115 cars and
traveling at about 30 mph
struck the caboose of the sta
tionary train on the mainline,
killing a brakeman and a con
ductor in the rear car.
A team of at least three
NTSB investigators from Wash
ington was on its way to the
scene to join an investigator dis
patched from the NTSB field
office in Denver. Reingold said
the team from Washington was
not expected to arrive at the site
until late Sunday.
The collision derailed five lo
comotives and 15 cars on the
moving train, and the caboose
and one car of the stationary
train. Those cars hit and de
railed five cars on the train on
the siding. Officials said each of
the cars carried 100 tons of coal.
Preliminary estimates indi
cated the line would be closed
until early Monday.
The Newcastle Fire Depart
ment was dispatched to the
scene to monitor for fires and
help extricate the men from the
caboose and locomotive. No
fires were reported.
Deputy Weston County Cor-
Joplin said the railroad has
begun its own investigation into
the accident, and he said, “We
will not comment on the possi
ble causes until that investiga
tion is completed.”
Five Burlington Northern
crewmen were killed last Friday
in a collision of two freight
trains near Wiggins, Colo.
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Doctors say French scientist
has found cause of AIDS virus
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ATLANTA — Doctors at the
Centers for Disease Control
said Sunday they believe a
French scientist has discovered
the virus that causes AIDS and
the discovery could lead to a
vaccine against the deadly dis
ease.
Dr. James O. Mason, the
chief of the federal health
agency, called the discovery a
“significant breakthrough. It is
an exciting development.”
Mason said tne discovery
could eventually lead to devel
opment of a vaccine against
AIDS, but that such a vaccine
could take many years to make.
He said the more immediate
effects of the discovery may be
development of a diagnostic test
for AIDS and a test to help in
prevention.
Mason explained that a test
might be developed to screen
AIDS-contaminated blood be
fore it is transfused to patients.
The virus found last year by
scientists at the Pasteur Institute
in Paris is called “LAV,” for
lymphadenopalhy-associated
virus. The viral family to which
it belongs has been the leading
candidate as the cause of AIDS
for a year.
“There are developments
that strengthen what had been
the most promising lead for
some time, said CDC spokes
man Bob Alden.
Recent findings by research
ers in Paris, as well as informa
tion provided by scientists at the
CDC^ and at the National Insti
tutes of Health in Maryland
have strengthened health offi
cials’ belief that LAV is the
cause.
Alden said both Mason and
Dr. Donald Francis, the coordi
nator of AIDS laboratory activ-
pos
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are pretty well convinced'
the virus causes AIDS.
“We cannot know for
that the LAV virus isthe
that causes AIDS, but the
tern it follows in the
body makes us believe it,"I
son said, adding more reseit
is needed to confirm the
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syndrome attacks the imm:
system, allowing life-threiic
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death rate for people with
disease has been about40(e
cent.
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contract the disease are
homosexuals and bmds
travenous drug abusers,
bans and hemophiliacs.
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DALLAS — Police Sunday
were seeking three men who
tied up a gun shop owner and
virtually stripped the store of
merchandise.
Investigator Albert Strebeck
said Chuck Gibson, 26, co
owner of Graves Gun Shop,
told him he was preparing
spend the night at the store
when he went to the back door
at about 11:11 p.m. to place his
German Shepherd guard dog
in its pen.
He was jumped at the door
by three men and led back in
side, Strebeck said.
Gibson told investigators the
men tied him to a bed then took
.
their time m removing p®
shotguns, rifles and autoifi
weapons from the store.
. rad six
lelepirf,
Gibson was finally
when his partner
the shop to wake Gibsonupi
church, got no answer,
went to the store to checU^ho
beck said.
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presents ...
Dance Expressions
From warmup activities
to the finished production, join
Dance Arts Society in an
evening of dance.
Thursday, April 26
7:30 p.m.
Rudder Theatre
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