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TROUTDALE (AP) - Highway crews contin
ued the slow process of removing tons of rock,
mud and debris from a heavily used two-lane
road east of Portland yesterday.
The Crown Point Highway just east of
Troutdale was blocked when a bluff above the
Sandy River collapsed late Monday afternoon.
Two workers who had been repairing a
guardrail were injured. Two other workers and
three men who were fishing on the river scram
bled to safety as the debris fell.
Officials initially feared a car may have been
trapped In the slide, but no vehicles had been
found by this morning.
"That's looking less likely all the time." said
janis Collins, spokeswoman for the Oregon High
way Division.
Bart Whalen. Multnomah County sheriffs
spokesman, said authorities had located all the
people believed to have been in the vicinity when
the slide occurred about 4 30 p m.
Collins said about 30.000 cubic yards of de
bris collapsed on the roadway just east of the
Stark Street Bridge. Crews worked through the
night to remove the material
“It’s going to be a long, slow process to get
that cleaned up.” she said “We're expecting
they'll be out there working throughout the
week.”
Collins said the area had been identified pre
viously as a potential slide site and was 11th for
repair on a priority list in the five-county region.
The repair project, expected to cost more than $3
million, was to have begun in a couple of years,
she said.
Highway crews were unable to start digging
until Portland General Electric crews arrived to
shut off the power. The slide knocked power
lines into (lie river and along the highway.
A road crew worker, Frank Johnson. 4ti, of
Portland, was flown by helicopter to Oregon
Health Sciences University Hospital. A spokes
woman said Johnson was in fair condition today
with a head injury.
Another worker Gilbert Austin 39. of
Aloha, suffered a broken leg and was treated at
Mount Hood Medical Center in Gresham.
Austin, owner of G. Clayton Austin Co. and
the head of the four-member work crew, said
there was a series of small rock falls throughout
the day. Austin's company was contracted by the
state Highway Division to paint the guard rails.
Austin said there was a "heck of a nimble"
shortly before the slide started on the 150-foot
cliff
"The mountain just started crumbling on
us," Austin said.
A car driven by Hope Darcy. 47. was stopped
by a flagger in the westbound lane on her way
home to Sandy.
"We were just sitting there," Darcy said,
"and the whole mountain fell down." She said
none of the cars in the line was covered in the
rubble.
Darcy said the slide seemed to fall in slow
motion.
She said she lived in the nearby Springdale
area for many years and remembers the highway
being closed near the cliff often because of fallen
rubble.
"Every time I drove by, 1 scooted a little fast
er," Darcy said. "There were often landslides."
Austin said the work crew repeatedly called
the Oregon Department of Transportation High
way Division to report the rock falls, which hap
pened at 8 a m.. 11 a m. and 3 p.m.
One of the falls brought down boulders, de
bris and trees, he said.
The spill was large enough to stop traffic un
til the road could fie cleared. Austin said high
way workers came to the site and swept the mad
wav several times.
Collins said geologist Sue D'Agnesa looked
over the site earlier in the day and said work
could continue.
Richard Nickerson, lead lineman for Portland
General Electric, said the slide knocked out pow
er to about 200 customers near the slide and as far
east as Springdale.
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