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THE BATTALION
Monday, September 1
lay, Septemb*
Barge knocks sections
from bridge, at least 4 dea
Only bridge leading into South Padre Island clos
Here ^
PORT ISABEL (AP) — A
group of barges smashed into a
pillar of.the only bridge leading
to popular South Padre Island
early Saturday, toppling three
80-foot sections of the bridge,
and killing at least four people
whose vehicles plunged into the
water 85 feet below.
Adrian Rivera, spokesman for
the Texas Department of Public
Safety, said four people were
dead and three were hospitalized.
An unknown number of peo
ple were missing, while 13 were
rescued from the Laguna Madre,
part of the Intracoastal
Waterway shipping route along
the Gulf Coast, officials said.
Rhonda Fife stood near the
four-lane bridge Saturday after
noon and said she had not heard
from her 18-year-old daughter.
Tiffany, since she went to the
island with friends late Friday.
“Nobody called and they
always call,” said Fife, her voice
trembling.
Michael Burke, father of
two sons who had gone out
with Tiffany, anxiously waited
with Fife.
“I just want to know where
my kids are at. I hope they’re all
right and just can’t call me,"
Burke said.
Five vehicles were located in
the 50-foot-deep water by early
afternoon and divers took pic
tures of their license plates for
identification, said Cameron
County Sheriff Conrado Cantu.
The sheriff said as many as 10
vehicles could be in the water.
Crews had pulled two vehi
cles out of the water by
midafternoon when the piling
damaged by the barges toppled
into the water. No injuries were
reported when the piling fell.
The Coast Guard was noti
fied around 2:30 a.m. that the
tug Brown Water V and its four
barges, loaded with coiled steel
and phosphate,
had struck the
2.37 -mile-long
span, the longest
bridge in Texas.
None of the cargo
spilled.
The tug opera
tor was ques
tioned and passed
a sobriety test,
officials said.
The crash *
victim was i
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2,(KK) permanent re^
Isabel Fire
M;, r
island hotels were abo
Harris, said
D e .
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cent txxiked for the
emergency n
Most tourists on the is
dinator.
The three <
t ythc
victims were
to celebrate Mexico’s 1
de Scptiembre indenen
Stevan
Texas,
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nouncec
Medical
and a m
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/ just ran and
heard a roar under
my feet. I ft
shake.
it'lt it
— Faustino Ramirez
witness
executwti
Det
dropped two adjacent 80-foot
segments of the Queen Isabella
Causeway into the channel near
the center of the span.
Rescue efforts were suspend
ed until Sunday morning when a
third 80-foot section of the
bridge collapsed about 2 p.m.
Saturday. Rivera said.
“There’s a consensus that
we’re in the recovery phase, not
the rescue phase,” Cantu said.
Three people died at the
scene, and the fourth died at a
hospital, authorities said. One
ii ,c Q
ble condit
Medical C
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serve as ferries' ‘‘hq
ering bringing ** $
vehicle ferry *foi
Christi. said Rjr'^al
the Texas ^‘Pai
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fate-
pill
| Faustino R;» inir ez was
bridge when th^ P l llarcoII,
“I don’t knv 7 ^ - 1 just rt
heard a roar un t C r my feet
it shake," Rami*?* said-
South Padre s kind has
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l enncssee. Adams suA
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Officials of Browl
n and
Marine Sen ice did Ml
I felt
repeated telephone
The Associated Pm
about
Saturday.
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Zeta Tau Alpha Welcomes
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Renee Chapman
Tiffany Clifton
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