Thursday, September 1, 1988/The Battalion/Page 7
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Siblings drown in canal
ate ticket fines on El PaSO QOlf COUrSO
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■MANSFIELD (AP) — Most who
eirned they were not receiving a
Vet trip to Jamaica, but instead
atfd a free trip to jail, were good-
tatured and quickly paid outstand-
n ; traffic tickets, said Mansfield po-
ic: of their successful undercover
t^fig operation.
Most of them found it kind of
norous,” Mansfield police Lt.
i|:niy Owen said. “Once the initial
block was over, some thought it was
limy as all get out.”
Vfansfielcl police mailed 600 let-
§s from a fake travel agency to
pie with outstanding traffic war-
fts, telling them they had won a
Inaican vacation, use of a Porsche
■or a year or $3,000.
1 Recipients were instructed to
ke an appointment and to bring
d| ntification when they came to col
li their prize last weekend.
fhe ruse netted 54 arrests and
4(100 in fines.
One man, who went out of his way
collect his prize, was not pleased
aut being swept up in the police
jThe man called ahead to say he
■uld be late, then drove in from
^ |ie Houston area.
^ K' He pulled up after we had closed
J Bwn the business and everybody
Is gone,” Owen told the Fori
larth Star-Telegram. “When he
I fSOIlled into the parking lot to ask di-
k vltions, a patrolman asked his
Bne and told him it was a sting op
inion and he was under arrest.
I'l think he was a little perturbed
II a, L tln - atlfist. I don’t know what his attitude
io the ailing w hen he left.
\ees <nt'B]q ans fi e ]d police said the sting op-
■tion, their first, was an over-
" or '' wielming success.
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Thursday
Sept. 1st
EL PASO (AP) — A 9-year-old
girl and her 11-year-old brother
drowned in a canal on a golf course
despite efforts by bystanders and
emergency workers to rescue them.
Rachel and Juan Silva were pro
nounced dead at Thomason Hospi
tal at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, two
hours after golfers pulled them
from the 5-foot-deep canal on the
edge of Ascarate Municipal Golf
Course, sheriffs deputies said.
Juan apparently was trying to save
his sister, who had fallen into the 60-
foot-wide canal, El Paso Sheriffs
Sgt. Marvin Ryals said.
“They were probably just playing,
but they probably went out too
deep,” he said. “The brother may
have tried to save the girl.”
Michael Hutcherson of Pampa
was playing golf and had earlier seen
Rachel and J uan playing on the bank
with their 7-year-old sister. Hutcher
son said he later saw Juan jumping
around in the water and no sign of
Rachel. He asked the 7-year-old girl
whether her brother was in trouble.
She said she thought so.
“I knew he was in trouble then,
and I hit the water,” Hutcherson
said.
A fellow golfer ran for help while
Hutcheron pulled the boy out of the
water and tried to revive him with
cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The
7-year-old girl went for the chil
dren’s mother, Patricia Silva.
When the girl and her mother ar
rived, a bystander asked the little girl
where Rachel was.
“She said the other girl was the
same place her brother had been,”
Hutcherson said. “I knew right then
the boy I was trying to save had been
trying to save his sister.”
An unidentified bystander
jumped in, found the girl and pulled
her out. Attempts to revive the chil
dren at the scene, in ambulances and
at Thomason Hospital were unsuc
cessful.
“We got a lot of help from
bystanders,” said Kevin Hobin, a su
pervisor for the city’s Emergency
Medical Services. “Everyone there
was really pulling for those two.”
Ryals said Ms. Silva had taken the
children to the park Tuesday af
ternoon.
“They apparently were left unat
tended,” Ryals said. “They didn’t
know how to swim at all.”
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D-FW crash brings bad memories
DALLAS (AP) — The crash of a Delta Airlines jet on
takeoff from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport
Wednesday brought back grim reminders of another
Delta fatal accident at the airport three years ago.
On Aug. 2, 1985, Delta Flight 191 crashed and
burned during a severe thunderstorm, killing 137 peo
ple, including a man driving along a highway, and in
juring 25 others. The L-101 1 went down during a rap
idly developing thunderstorm and smashed into two
water tanks just short of the runway where the flight
was arriving from Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
In that accident, 27 passengers and crew members
survived.
In Wednesday’s crash of Flight 1141 on takeoff for
Salt Lake City, 13 were killed and 94 survived. Officials
arf* not speculating what caused the accident, which oc
curred as the plane attempted to take off in cloudless
skies just after 9 a.m. CDT.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators
ruled in mid-July 1986 that the Delta 191 crash oc
curred when the plane flew into a microburst con
taining several wind shears.
The strong, abrupt downward shifts in wind direc
tion at the south end of the airport smashed the jet into
the ground.
“The biggest lesson of that crash was a better under
standing of what happens during a microburst,” NTSB
spokesman Bill Bush said shortly after the findings
were released. “Because there was a lot of information
on the digital flight recorder, we know a lot more about
how airplanes perform during a microburst.”
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