PACE IA
1IER,LD AND
Bodies And Concrete Hurled
Onto Ice By Giant Explosion
(Conlloufd from Pate 1)
. les laid out in the coliseum un
. der the merry eye of a paste
, board chorus girl which had
served as a prop lor the show.
Survivors Tell Btory
. Those who lived through it
told the story:
Policeman Jack Ohrburg:
"It's the first time I've ever
had a 3-year-old girl die In my
arms crying Daddy, daddy'."
Richard CrowtU, 20, college
student, who dragged his girl
friend from the rubble and
struggled towards safety:
; "There was a popcorn conces
sion stand beneath us . . . all
over us. I carried Karol. I
could sec people screaming and
running. iLegs and arms were
sticking out of the rubble. On
the way out we had to cross
people I believe were dead.
One man had his head sticking
in the flames."
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NEWS. Klamalr Falls, Otrgoa
John Williams, Columbus,
Ohio, a member of the com
pany of "Holiday on Ice:" "No
performers were hurt but some
were knocked off their feet
from the impact. Fire and
flame followed immediately.
People fan onto the ice. They
didn't know what to do. They
were slipping on the ice. The
people were just like cattle.
Tiicy came across the ice and
got out of there."
Police Chief Robert Rcilly:
"I thought I had seen death,
but I guess I was' wrong. I
don't care if you have seen five
wars."
Critical Condition
Some of the injured were in
critical condition.
Other survivors thought at
Youth Describes Scene
After Tragic Explosion
EDITOR'S NOTE Richard
Crowell, 20, Indianapolis col
lege student, was with his
parent and girlfriend at the
Indianapolis Coliseum iwhen
an explosion ripped through
It, The following js his ac
, count.
By RICHARD CROWELL
As Told To UPI
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. UPl
They had this special where
you buy two tickets and get
two free. My folks got the tick
ets and invited me to bring my
girl.
Dad got box seats that were
right above one of t h e main
sections. In front of us there
were about 10 rows of wooden
chairs with people right next to
the Ice.
The show was superior to any
we had seen before. The skit
just before the finale involved
two comedians who slid off the
ice with firecrackers going off.
Then the finale began and
just when the stars were going
through their final spins, there
was this great noise like a
huge firecracker.
All around us was the smtll
of smoke and the dust of the
explosion. About IS feet away
Phont
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Friday, Novembr 1, 1J6J
first the explosion was part of
the show.
The skaters were twirling in
center ice at 11:11 p.m. EST
when the southern end of the
barn-like arena exploded. To
some, it sounded like firecrack
ers and they started moving
peacefully towards the exit.
But suddenly bodies were fall
ing onto the ice, hurtled from
as far as 50 feet away. So were
huge chunks of concrete. Flames
leaped from the wreckage. Par
ents clasped their children, tried
to shield (hem, and died wifh
them. Some fled across the ice,
slipping, falling, and rising
again.
Coroner Dennis Nicholas said
he had counted the bodies of at
least 32 women.
was a geyser of flame. I didn't
know where my mother or fath
er was but Karol (17-ycar-old
girlfriend l was on my right.
She was half buried in the rub
ble. I was thrown up in the air.
I lost my glasses.
If I hadn't been holding on to
Karol I probably wouldn't have
found her.
I pulled her out by the arm
pits, she was unconscious. My
left leg had been wedged into
the rubble, I sprained it when
I pulled it out.
There was popcorn from the
concession stand beneath us . . .
all over us.
I carried Karol to a section
that was still standing. I could
see people screaming, and run
ning. Legs and arms were
sticking out of the rubble.
On the way out we had to
cross persons I believe were
dead. One man had his head
sticking in the flames.
When we got outside, Karol
was crying. Oad met us and
feared another explosion. We
heard ambulances but decided
it would be quicker to go by
car.
Dad drove us, honking
through several red lights, down
to St. Vincent Hospital. We
were among the first to arrive
at the hospital.
Every person I saw later
looked 10 times worse off than
602 Died
In 1903
Tragedy
By United Prrss International
The most tragic lire in a
place' of public entertainment
was the blaze that killed MB
persons in Chicago's Iroquois
Theater Dec. 30, 1903.
Fire killed 401 persons in the
Cocoaiiut Grove, nightclub, in
Boston, Mass., on Nov. 28, 1!M2.
On Dec. 6, 'lR7fi. U'.IS persons
were killed when fire swept
through a Brooklyn iN.Y.) the
ater. Two hundred persons lost
their lives at the famed Opera
Comique of (Paris during a fire
there May 23, I8B7. On Sept. 4
of the same year another son
were killed in a fire at a thea
ter in Exeter, Eng.
In a bliite at the Mayague
Theater in San Juan. P.R., 130
persons died Iune 20. 1!I!.
A fire in the Ringling Broth
ers circus lent in Hartford.
Conn., killed 108 persons July
0, l!M4.
Most recently, a circus fire
in Niterni, Braul, Dec. 17. IW2.
killed 323 persons and injured
800.
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TRAPPED BOY SAVED Firemen reaches out to help a trapped boy at the Indiana
State Fairgrounds Coliseum in Indianapolis Thursday night following an explosion that
killed 67 and inured hundreds.
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FIRST AID RENDERED A victim is comforted by
friends after first aid was qiven following an explosion
at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum Thursday
night. UPI Telephoto
Mayor Escapes Explosion
EDITOR'S NOTE - Indian
apolis Mnyor Albert tau-hr
was in the audience when an
explosion ripped the Indiana
.State Fairground Coliseum
Thursday night. This Is his
story.
By MAYOR ALBERT LOSCIIE
As Told To I PI
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. UPP
1've never seen anything like
it. It's the worst tragedy in the
history of Indianapolis.
II must have been some sort
of gus explosion, but 1 don't
know or sure. Ordinarily. 1
would have lecn siltuig in the
section that blew up. 1 always
get 10 Shrine Night tickets on
the south side of the coliseum,
but this year I was late buy
ing my tickets and ended up on
the extreme north side.
Everybody was enjoying the
show, but all of a sudden there
was a terrific explosion and
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bodies started flying onto the
ice. Flames were shooting 25 to
30 feet into the air.
Fumes started building up and
people were screaming and try
ing to get out. The aisles were
all jammed and it was very
difficult to get out of the build
ing. Just about the time I got my
guests outside the first firemen
showed up to put out the fire.
Local Artists
Part Of Show
OREGON STATE VWVERSI
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Falls are among 31 Oregon art
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in its will he exhibited Nov. 4 to
24 at Oregon stale University.
TIh-v me Howard A. Hall ,Ir.
of 4.V17 ljuerne Avenue, who
will show three oil paintings,
and 1-yle F. Matoush of 1517
Donald, who will exhibit one col
or intncllo nd one collate.
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his home here three times alter
being sold.
The dog's name is "Roomcr-
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MARIETTA. Ga. IL'PI' An
explosion shattered a crowded
store Thursday night on the
town square here where hun
dreds had gathered for a chil
dren's Halloween parade. Seven
persons were killed and scores
injured.
Rescue workers pulled the
seventh victim from the rubble
of Atherton's Drug Store early
today. He was identified as
Terry Carter, 7. He had last
New Attack
Launched
By Algeria
RABAT, Morocco (UPI IAl
gerian forces launched a mas
sive artillery and infantry at
tack against the border town of
Figuig at dawn today. A short
time later, King Hassan of Mo
rocco announced that his troops
had withdrawn about a mile
from the town.
Figuig is 37 miles northeast
of Colomb Bechar. With an esti
mated population of more than
10.000 persons, it is the biggest
town yet to figure in the Algerian-Moroccan
border fighting.
On French maps it is shown
about three miles inside Moroc
co. The attack began at 7 a.m..
today, the king said, some 18
hours before the cease-fire,
agreed to at Bamako .his week,
is scheduled to come into force.
The truce was signed by Has
san and Algerian President Ah
med Ben Bella.
The king called newsmen to
his throne room at midday and
told them "a criminal Algerian
attack has been in progress
since this morning against Fi
guig." He said the population of Fi
guig suffered "loss of lives and
properly among men, women
and children." Border reports
said the Algerians used artil
lery and heavy mortars to shell
the town before their infantry
moved in.
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been seen entering the store
with his father.
'They were holding hands
when they walked in," said the
youngster's uncle, John Carter.
They were going to buy Terry
a mask."
The boy's 33-year-old father
also was killed by the blast.
The explosion, believed
caused by gas leaking from a
heater located in a shallow
basement near the front of the
store, sent splintered glass,
chunks of concrete and other
debris hurtling across the street
toward the square.
People standing on the side
walk watching the festivities
were knocked over and the
body of one victim was hurled
into the street.
Twenty-seven persons were
treated for injuries at Kenne
stone Hospital. Nine were hos
pitalized in serious condition.
The blast happened at 6:25
p.m. Thursday during the after-working-hours
shopping rush in
this suburban town of 23,000
and brought fire engines and
ambulances rushing into the
square where masked young
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"It was like a jet breaking
the sound barrier," said high
school student Barry Hill who
was sitting with some friends
in a car near the store when
the blast occurred. "Oh, it was
30 times louder than that.
"We all ducked our heads
and glass from the windows in
the store embedded in our car.
When we looked over there,
there was nothing. . .everything
just collapsed. . .it all collapsed
on people."
Hunters Save
Indian Guide
' lOfMIILE HOUSE, B.C. UPI
Two United States hunters
saved the life of a one-aimed
Indian guide as a giant Grizzly
bear was mauling him.
The bear had its jaws
clamped over the head of Ed
ward Dixon, 44, near here.
The animal was cut down by
a fusilade of shots from Geo(pe
Riddle and Cleo Cripps, both of
Las Vegas.
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