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El Paso explosion
damages homes
United Press International
EL PASO — Nine people were in
jured Tuesday when a natural gas
explosion demolished a house and
damaged at least 18 other homes in a
uiet residential area. There were no
eaths.
It was the second such explosion
in two days. A leaking natural gas
pipeline in neighboring Juarez,
Mexico exploded Sunday, injuring
34.
Luis Velez, 52 and his wife, Vir
ginia, 49, who lived in the house that
exploded, were in satisfactory condi
tion at Sun Towers Hospital. Their
son, Martin, 20, also was in satisfac
tory condition.
Flames were leaping 100 feet into
the air when firefighters arrived at
the scene. The blaze was under con
trol in 20 minutes, firemen said.
Three people were treated and re
leased from Beaumont Army Medi
cal Center. The hospital identified
them as retired Col. Ralph H. Pryor,
his wife, Vera E. Pryor, and retired
Staff Sgt. Gordon G. Thompson.
Laura Wiggs, 19, was treated for
cuts and bruises at Sierra Hospital.
Julia Ramirez, 71, another neighbor,
was treated for cuts at Hotel Dieu
Hospital. And Michael Saykley, 18,
was treated and released from Provi
dence Memorial Hospital with facial
cuts.
Gary Nelson, construction and
maintenance supervisor for South
ern Union Gas, said he speculated
that a gas leak was the cause of the
explosion.
Deputy Fire Chief Mike Duryee
said investigators believe the blast
may have been caused by natural
gas, but they are not ruling out the
possibility it could have been caused
by an explosive device.
“I am leaning toward natural gas
as the cause,” Dury Cindy Rupel, 25,
who lives in an apartment complex a
block and a half away, said. Rupel
said she heard a loud boom shortly
after 6 a.m.
“It knocked me out of bed it was
so loud,” she said. “There was one
big blast and two smaller blasts. I ran
into my daughter’s bedroom to make
sure that she was alright, and when 1
looked out the window, I saw fire
shooting up from the house and de
bris flying all over the place,” she
said.
Josephine Harper, another neigh
bor, said she thought the explosion
was a bolt of lightning.
“I thought it was lightning be
cause of the boom, and the sound of
what I thought was rain on the roof,
but it really wasn’t rain,” she said. “It
turned out to be debris from the
house.
“I looked out in the street and saw
people running down the streets,
and then we saw the flames shooting
straight up. There were a number of
roofs that were lif ted off the houses,
moved, and a lot of structural dam
age.”
Harper said glass light fixtures in
her house broke, raining glass down
on her head.
“Glass hit me on the head, and
there was glass shattering all over,”
she said. “All of our China has been
broken.”
Walter Cotter, who lives next
door, called the explosion worse
than World War II.
“I’ve been through World War II,
but this was even worse because it
was unexpected,” he said. “It was a
boom that shook the entire house.
Debris was flying all over and hitting
the roof like rain.”
Debris from the blast was scat
tered over a nearby street, and win
dows in neighborhood homes were
shattered.
Joel Ortiz, 17, was on his way to
the bus stop when the blast knocked
him to the sidewalk. He said when he
got up, he heard shouts for help and
saw Martin Velez, 20, trapped by
flames in the debris.
He picked his way through the
rubble and carried Velez out by the
shoulders, police said.
Following the blast, a one-square
block area was blocked off and
power was cut off to the area.
David Tarango, a spokesman for
the fire department, said the explo
sion caused damage to buildings half
a mile away and was felt five to six
miles away.
The site of Tuesday’s blast is just
five miles from the one in Juarez.
Phillips oil union members
vote to defer pay increase
United Press International
BORGER — Phillips Petroleum
Co. union members voted to defer a
pay increase, which might eventually
come through the purchase of em
ployee stock, a union spokesman
said Tuesday.
Refusing to reveal the vote count,
the president of the International
Union of Operating Engineers Local
351 said only that “a substantial mar
gin voted to defer” the average $730
annual pay increase.
Similar votes are expected soon by
Phillips union members in Houston;
St. Louis; Shilder, Okla.; Oklahoma
City; Bartlesville and Woods Cross,
Utah; Local 35 1 president Bob
Grove said.
The Phillips Borger operation has
1,100 union members, which is the
biggest concentration at any of its
plants. Grove said.
The pay increase was scheduled to
take effect Tuesday. But Phillips
management last week asked its em
ployees to defer the wage hike until
stockholders have a chance to vote
on a recapitalization plan.
The recapitalization plan is to in
clude a proposed Employee Incen
tive Stock Ownership Plan of which
few details have been disclosed yet.
Grove said employees also will vote
later on whether to accept that.
Grove said Phillips administration
refused to release details of the em
ployee stock plan until the plan was
ready to present to stockholders.
He said he was not certain, but be
lieved the wage increase probably
would be applied to the purchase of
employee stock if that plan is ap
proved.
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