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THE BATTALION
Monday, March 8, 2004
Weather caused harbor ferry
to capsize; three still missing
By Brian Witte
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — The Navy
reservists whose quick work
saved 21 people aboard a water
taxi that capsized described the
horritic scene in which they
made their rescue: survivors
clinging to the overturned vessel
in frigid, choppy water pounded
by rain, telling them more were
trapped below.
One woman was killed in
Saturday’s accident in
Baltimore Harbor and three peo
ple, including a child, were
missing, but the reservists said
Sunday they were relieved the
loss of life wasn’t even greater.
The sailors rushed to the scene
after seeing the boat in trouble.
After passengers clinging to the
water taxi told them others were
trapped underneath, the rescuers
used a ramp on their troop landing
ship to lift the water taxi partly out
of the water. Petty Officer Jeffrey
King said.
“Brother, it was like the
end of the “Titanic” movie
once that thing lifted up,” King
said. “I mean those bodies just
floated up.”
Lt. Cmdr. Art Eisenstein
said he jumped into the water
and grabbed a little girl who
was unconscious and floating
face-down.
“Just to hear that she’s still
with us is just amazing,”
Eisenstein said.
Water temperatures were in the
low40s, and heavy rain was pour
ing from black clouds as survivors
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -
Insurgents fired at least seven
rockets on the U.S. coalition head
quarters in Baghdad Sunday night,
hitting a hotel used by U.S. occu
pation officials and wounding one
American, the military said. It was
the biggest attack on the Green
Zone in weeks.
A series of explosions echoed
across central Baghdad from the
strike, sirens blared, and smoke
and flames were briefly visible in
the Green Zone, the heavily guard
ed area where the U.S.-led coali
tion is based.
Five rockets hit the Al-Rasheed
hotel, where some civilian contrac
tors are living and a coalition din
ing hall is located. A U.S. civilian
contractor was wounded, the mili
tary said.
Shots fired at rally
to demand trial for
ousted Haitian leader
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -
Gunshots erupted Sunday at a
protest to demand that ousted
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide be tried for corruption and
fomenting violence. At least four
demonstrators and a foreign jour
nalist were killed.
Witnesses blamed Aristide mili
tants, but that could not immediate
ly be confirmed. The shooting
occurred as crowds gathered in front
of the presidential National Palace.
Witnesses said they saw Aristide
supporters shooting at the crowd in
front of the National Palace, and
they complained that peacekeepers
did nothing to prevent the violence.
After the shooting, a truck with
speakers bolted to its frame parad
ed around the palace, blasting
music. One man speaking over a
truck loudspeaker shouted at the
U.S. A/larines: “People are dying
every day in this country. You have
to do something about it.”
Gay bishop takes over
as head of diocese
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - With three
mighty thumps on the church door
Sunday, V. Gene Robinson knocked
and was welcomed into St. Paul’s
sanctuary, where he officially
became the Episcopal Church’s first
openly gay bishop.
Sunday's investiture ceremony
does not carry the same weight as
Robinson’s consecration, which
rocked the Episcopal Church in
November. But it gave a capacity
crowd of more than 600 the
chance to welcome the new leader
of the Diocese of New Hampshire
with whistles, shouts and a stand
ing ovation.
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Baltimore |
MARYLAND
Divers
searched
the Baltimore
harbor for three
bodies after a water taxi
capsized Saturday killing one.
The pontoon boat flipped over
during a storm with high winds
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One dead, three
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were pulled out of the water.
“It was pretty hateful,” Petty
Officer Henry Zecher said. “I’m
relieved that we were able to
save as many lives as we were.”
Two people, including an 8-
year-old girl, were critically
injured when the 36-foot pontoon
boat overturned with 23 passen
gers and two crew members.
The ferry had just set off
across the harbor from historic
Fort McHenry on the way to the
city’s Fells Point when it was
caught by wind gusting to 50
mph. The boat, which was at full
capacity, was equipped with life
preservers but passengers are
not required to wear them.
“No one on the craft had time
to get their life preservers on,”
said police Maj. Fred Bealefeld.
Twenty-two people were
removed from the water but one
woman died at a hospital. Seven
remained hospitalized Sunday.
The water temperature was in
the low 40s.
On Sunday, recovery crews
used boats, helicopters, sonar
and dogs trained to find sub
merged bodies in the search for
the three missing people.
The missing were a man, a
woman and a child, said
Baltimore Fire Chief William
Goodwin.
He said the dogs indicated
they may have detected some
thing near the spot where the
boat overturned, and sonar was
used to scan the area.
Investigators said they
were looking at the weather
and the condition and opera
tion of the vessel as possible
factors in the accident.
NTSB Chairman Ellen
Engleman-Conners said offi
cials were interviewing sur
vivors and witnesses, and were
awaiting voluntary toxicology
tests conducted Sunday on the
captain and first mate.
She said divers stopped their
recovery efforts about 6 p.m.
Sunday and would resume
Monday morning.
Engleman-Conners said the
boat would be removed from the
water so investigators could do
complete hull and steering system
inspections. She said an initial
inspection found that the steering
system appeared to be intact.
Congressional races
overshadow Texan
presidential primary
By Kelley Shannon
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — With the
Democratic presidential nomi
nee assured, the Texas primary
drama turns to what many
Lone Star State voters are infi
nitely familiar with — new
congressional districts.
Candidates for Congress in
Tuesday's primary are squaring
off in Republican-drawn dis
tricts that
received federal
court approval in
January and could
give the GOP an
advantage in the
state’s 32-mem
ber congressional
delegation.
Republican
legislators pushed
through the new
districts last year,
despite two out-
of-state boycotts
by Democrats.
Also before
the voters are a
race for Texas
Railroad Commission and con
tests for the Texas Supreme
Court, Texas Court of Criminal
Appeals, State Board of
Education and Texas
Legislature.
“As Texans and Americans,
we should remember that
democracy is dependent on a
As Texans and
Americans, we
should remember
that democracy is
dependenton a
single act—the
act of voting.
— Geoff Connor
Texas Secretary of State
single act — the act of voting.
There are plenty of reasons to
go to the polls on March 9th,”
Texas Secretary of State Geoff
Connor said.
Ten candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomi
nation appear on the ballot, but
John Kerry is the only major
candidate still in the race.
President Bush is the only
Republican presidential candi
date on the ballot.
Early voting for the primary
ran for two
weeks and con
cluded Friday.
Connor said the
rate of early vot
ing varied across
the state. He pre
dicted a total of
nearly 1.7 mil
lion people, or
14 percent of the
state’s 12.26
million regis
tered voters, will
cast ballots.
In congres
sional primary
races, two
incumbent
Democrats are fighting to stay in
office in districts that cover parts
of the Texas-Mexico border.
The winning Democrat
faces either Republican
Rebecca Armendariz Klein,
former chair of the Texas
Public Utility Commission, or
minister Regner Capener.
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