The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, November 28, 1988, Image 4

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RANGE SCIENCE SEMINAR: Andrew Samson will speak about the "Texas
Land Protection Priority” at 9 a.m. in 204 Sterling C. Evans.
HONORS STUDENT COUNCIL: Dr. Nation will speak about teaching in China
at 7:30 p.m. in 501 Rudder.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: call the Center for Drug Prevention and Educa
tion at 845-0280 for details on today’s meeting.
STUDENT SENATE: will meet ht 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington.
INTRAMURALS: entries open for outdoor soccer at 8 a.m. in 158 Read. There
will be a meeting for outdoor soccer officials at 6 p.m. in 167 Read.
TAMU FORESTRY CLUB: will sell Christmas trees from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. on the
front lawn of Sbisa and at the Forest Science Building.
Tuesday
OFF CAMPUS AGGIES: will have an off-campus roommate session at 5 p.m.at
the Off-Campus Center in Puryear Hall.
MSC HOSPITALITY: will have the “Lighting of the Tree” at 12:30 p.m. in the
MSC.
TAMU SCUBA CLUB: will have its last meeting of the semester at 7 p.m. in402
Rudder.
SPEECH COMMUNICATION PROJECT: will have a safety awareness boolh
from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. in the MSC.
PRE-MED/PRE-DENT SOCIETY: Dr. David Jones from the UTSA medical
school will speak at 7:30 p.m. in 203 Harrington.
PHI BETA LAMBDA: will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 131 Blocker.
CLASS OF ‘89: is accepting pictures or negatives in the Student Programs Of
fice for the senior banquet slide show.
AGGIES FOR DIABETES AWARENESS: Dr. Luther Travis will speak about
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have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
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FRUITVALE (AP) —Nearly 250
residents were returning Sunday to
the homes they were evacuated from
after a train derailed during a heavy
thunderstorm, spewing nearly
20,000 gallons of toxic anhydrous
ammonia.
Firefighter Bruce Messer of the
Tyler Fire Department Hazardous
Materials Response team said au
thorities at 11:20 p.m. Saturday offi
cially lifted an evacuation order that
was issued late Friday.
“It was tentatively supposed to be
lifted at midnight,” Messer said. “We
had one man left on the unit. All the
ammonia was pumped out of the pit
and were trying to use a product
called stabilizing foam that would
surpress all vapors at that point.
Once that was done, the evacuation
would be lifted.”
At the Best Western Canton Inn
about 12 miles northeast of Fruit
vale, desk clerk Marcie Nix said
evacuees who had been guests there
began leaving Sunday morning.
“Some of them have already
checked out,” Nix said early Sunday.
“I think they’ll all be getting home by
Monday. . . . They’ll be glad to get
home. Some of them were in their
house coats when they were evac
uated and that’s all they wore for
three days. But Union Pacific had
been real nice and took care of all
their meals and rooms.”
Nix said at least 40 of the hotel’s
60 rooms were used by evacuees,
and that the rest were booked to
workers on cleanup and repair crew
involved with the train derailment.
Authorities said they were uncet
tain what caused the Union Pad
freight train enroute to Fort Wortl
from New Orleans to derail aborn
7:30 p.m. Friday. A tornado haJ
been spotted in the area about tin
time that 45 cars on the 89-cartraii
derailed along a mile of track.
Among the cars derailed was oik
filled with 30,000 gallons of anht
drous ammonia, a toxic liquid fara
fertilizer, while another was loaded
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14,000 gallons of the ammonia
seeped from the ammonia car be
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spill.
“This car was sandwiched be
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ture hole 2 feet by 3 feet big,”Mei
ser said.
Crews from the railroad, Boob
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Tyler unit and eight area voluntett
fire departments worked to freei
damaged chlorine tanker fromtbt
wreckage, right the ammonia a
into a pit and pump out thespillti
liquid.
A vapor cloud emerged as tbt
draining began and it continuedo)
and off throughout the day, Messft
said. Workers occasionally had to
leave the area, but there were note
ported injuries.
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