Thursday, February 9,1989
The Battalion
Page 7
Accident traps man in car
for 63 hours in ice storm
FRIENDSWOOD (AP) — A man
trapped in his overturned car in
freezing weather for some 63 hours
was in serious but stable condition
Wednesday, hospital officials said.
Ronald Schroeder, 44, of
Friendswood, whose car had
plunged into a ravine, finally was
rescued Tuesday morning when
three men driving by spotted the ve
hicle. He remained at John Sealy
Hospital in Galveston with circula
tion problems and a puncture
wound in his left arm and hand.
Authorities had been searching
for Schroeder since Saturday night,
when his wife reported him missing,
Friendswood Sgt. Ross Eliason said.
Schroeder’s ordeal began Satur
day at 6 p.m. when he left his Hous
ton suburb home to go to the store.
He later called his wife, saying he
could not find what he wanted and
was going to a different store in
nearby Webster.
Police said Schroeder witnessed a
two-car accident involving two
young drivers on a bridge about
8:35 p.m. Saturday. In swerving to
avoid the accident on Farm Road
528, Schroeder’s car plunged off the
bridge and flipped over.
The passenger door flew open,
Schroeder’s wrist was pinned under
the car’s roof, and he blacked out.
His car was surrounded by foliage.
Schroeder told police he regained
consciousness to see the lights of
emergency vehicles, but his cries for
help were not heard.
For more than 60 hours, he re
mained pinned in the car during a
period of record-breaking lows for
the area and was not rescued until
11:50 a.m. Tuesday. He used a cup
to catch rainwater to drink.
Eliason said he had checked the
area where Schroeder’s car was lo
cated Sunday night, searching for
ice, but saw no trace of the car or the
man.
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years after red wolves lost their last
wild foothold in Southeast Texas,
their howls echoed among tree-
studded hills here as conservationists
tried to breed the species from the
brink of extinction.
Eight of the 84 red wolves left in'
the world were moved Tuesday
from carrying cages into mating
rens, 45 miles southwest of Fort
Worth. The native Texas species is
reing rejuvenated at the Fossil Rim
Wildlife Center.
“The only hope of saving them
as been to put them in captivity,”
aid Ronald Smith, who accompa
nied the animals by plane from their
rrevious breeding home in Tacoma,
Wash.
Government-sponsored bounty
lunting of the sleek animals, de-
truction of their habitat and dis-
ases such as heartworms decimated
heir population after the turn of the
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leased into their 100- by 150-foot
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in the recovery of the red wolf.”
Officials at Fossil Rim have set up
one of the largest red wolf breeding
programs in the U.S., second only to
the program run by the Point Defi
ance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma.
Fossil Rim is an exotic game cen
ter dedicated to saving endangered
species. It has programs for chee
tahs, Grevy’s zebras, white rhinocer
oses and numerous herd animals,
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“There are fewer red wolves than
whooping cranes or evert giant pan
das,” Bruce Williams, director of the
non-profit center, said. “The red
wolf is the most endangered mam
mal in the United States.”
The four male and four female
wolves were placed in large pens,
and will live in dog houses and eat
dog food. Foundation officials hope
the wolves will have offspring this
spring and that the pups can be re
leased into the wild.
After passage of the Endangered
Species Act in 1973, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service developed a
program to capture the few remain
ing wolves. The 40 wolves were put
in a captive breeding program at the
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.
The last remaining group was
found along the Sabine River in
Texas and Louisiana, near Beau
mont. A trapping program began in
the 1970s and the last of the wolves
were captured by 1980.
From a pool of 40 animals, the
numbers have risen to 84 in the Ta
coma program and at several zoos
across the nation that have taken a
pair or two.
Smith said he expected the num
ber of wolves to almost double by
next year because of expansion of
facilities for breeding.
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The protests in Huntsville spread
hroughout the state, and were net-
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resisted integration.
“The Klan would come up in their
obes . . . from Houston, Beaumont,
Grange, Alabama,” he said. “The
Crand Dragon even showed up.
hey had numerous rallies.”
One of Wiatt’s major duties was to
Jtevent the Ku Klux Klan from or
ganizing in his territory, which in-
:luded Brazos and 12 other coun-
ies.
“They tried to set up shop in
Trinity County and in Madison
County — which is right next to Bra
ns County -— and a couple of
)thers,” he says. “They had cross
lurnings and so forth.
“I dogged the Ku Klux Klan. Ev-
rytime they would come to have a
)ig rally, I was there. I was taking
lown license plate numbers of par-
icipants for further investigation.”
The FBI’s efforts actually pre
rented some local counties from
’orming Ku Klux Klan organiza
tions, Wiatt said.
“We just wiped them out before
hey got started,” he said.
Wiatt said that like in “Mississippi
Burning,” local law officers often
(Were the ones inflicting much of the
’ acial violence.
“They were reflecting the views of
he people who put them in their
position,” he said. “I had to conduct
investigations on numerous sheriffs
departments and police agencies for
alleged violations of civil rights.”
Wiatt encountered much resent
ment from local police officers be
cause they knew he was investigating
them for allegations of civil rights vi
olations.
Another incident that brought at
tention to Wiatt was the assault on
notorious drug-runner Fred Gomez
Carrasco during his attempted es
cape from the Huntsville prison.
Gomez had been involved in seve
ral shootouts with police before
going to prison, and claimed to have
killed 40 to 100 people in South
Texas and Mexico.
Gomez and two other prisoners
took 16 hostages, and held out in the
prison library for 11 days — the
longest prison seige in the country’s
history at the time.
Wiatt was the first federal agent at
the scene, and was responsible for
the negotiations with the prisoners.
The prisoners tried to walk out of
the prison using the hostages as a
barricade. The ensuing 22-minute
shootout left two of the hostages
dead and another seriously
wounded.
Wiatt almost was one of those
counted among the dead. He was
knocked unconscious when the bul
lets hit his bulletproof vest.
“I got back up after a few minutes
and ended up shooting one of the
convicts,” he says. “Carrasco ended
up blowing his brains out.”
The third convict still is on death
row, Wiatt added.
Wiatt once placed himself in the
position of being a hostage when he
traded himself for another hostage
in Caldwell County.
He also solved the murder of fed
eral Judge John Wood, who was shot
in 1979.
Wiatt was forced to leave the FBI
at the end of 1980 because of a man
datory retirement age of 55.
After working two years for the
district attorney, Wiatt was offered a
job as head of A&M’s police depart
ment.
He said he thought this would be
a nice little retirement job. But it has
been anything but that, he said.
In his six years at A&M, Wiatt has'
received plenty of attention.
For five years, he was the person
in charge of enforcing parking regu
lations on a campus with almost
twice as many parkers as parking
spaces. He’s even had the University
presidents’ cars towed more than
once.
Wiatt conducted a controversial
investigation into the 1984 hazing
death of Corps member Bruce
Goodrich.
He’s responsible for 48 certified
officers and other support person
nel at A&M and is in charge of secu
rity for visiting officials and foreign
dignitaries — not an easyjob.
Wiatt said he doesn’t know how
long he’ll stay at A&M, but added ,
that he enjoys his job and wants to
stay awhile.
He takes a great interest in young
people and students, he said, be
cause of the death of his 18-year-old
son from Hodgkin’s disease in 1976.
He enjoys helping students with
anything he can.
“It invigorates me and keeps me
young,” he said.
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