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Show Sunday, March 26, 3 of Injured Lose limbs Survivors Reveal Horrors Of New York Train, School Bus Crash CONGERS, N.Y. (UPI)-pa- tty Bundick, an senior at Nyack High School, was sitting near the back of the orange school bus packed with students when she 49 teen-ag- e glanced up and saw the approaching freight train. "I looked at the train and a few of the other kids must have too. I called out that it was a few of us coming screamed out," she said. "He (the bus driver) hesitat ed to stop, but he kept on going- - He was going too fast to stop' fhe said. Patty was one of three fortunate students who suffered only minor injuries Friday Perm morning when the Central freight train, its whistle blaring, slammed into the bus at an unguarded crossing in this hamlet 25 miles north of New York City. Train Splits Bui in Two The train, which railroad officials said was traveling at about 25 miles an hour at the time of the collision, split the bus in two and dragged the front part of it 1,500 feet dosm the tracks spilling out injured children all the way. Three boys were killed, two crushed in the wreckage pulled under the train engine. Forty-thre- e students, ranging in age from 14 to 18, and the bus driver, were admitted to Nyack Hospital. The hospital reported today eight of the students were in critical conditions, four in guarded condition, 14 fair and 17 satisfactory. The driver of the bus was reported in guarded condition. Among the hospitalized children were three who lost limbs in the tragedy. One boy had to have his leg amputated to free him from the wreckage, police said. "The kids were spread all over the countryside. Police Lt George Finley. ... , j it r 11,4 tw ' f 83-c- ar The train engineer, Charles N.Y., was reported ir Thock. He Carpenter, said he "frantically" was admitted to the nospital for blew his whistle and set his chest injuries and authorities emergency brakes when he saw refused to say what he had told them in a police interview. the bus coming. "He Never Stopped" Finley, heading the investiga"He never stopped at all," tion of the accident, said the five workers aboard the train Carpenter told police. The bus driver, Joseph had been interviewed along Larkin, 35, of Stony Point, with scores of students. He said police ?ere investigating reports the bus did not stop, but would not elaborate. However, he did say, "Our investigation will culminate in it being presented to the Rockland County Grand Jury." New York state law requires - school f hi 4 i i DRIVER Oi? THE SCHOOL BUS which was ripped in alf by a Penn Central freight tram Friday, is carried from the ccene by rescue workers. Re is Joseph Larkin, who, along with 43 students in the bus, was injured. Three students were killed. buses to make a stop at all railroad draw over 1,000 people to this state capital, is the kick-of- f for a week of antiwar protests outside the federal courtroom where the Rev. Philip Berrigan and six codefendants are standing trial. The their suddenly cutting the case short and refusing to present any defense witnesses. They chose to remain silent, although it cost them a chance to deny they conspired to kidnap presidential aide Henry defendants upstaged Kissinger, blow up the heating followers Friday by system of government buildings Told Horrors of Drug-Takin- g In Pathetic Diary of Young Girl LONDON (UPI)-- "If there was ever a case mat illustrates this the horrors of is it," said Coroner Glyn Evans. He picked up one of the water stained notebooks in which Eileen Sullivan, 17, had scrawled. "When I wake up in the morning, all I can think about is where to get money for more drugs," Eileen wrote. "I think I can last fc- - nine months, but in. 18 I will be dead." Three months later, on Feb. 17 at 10 p.m. and during a power blackout caused by a national miners' strike, Eileen walked out of a party at which she had been dropping LSD, smoking marijuana and taking barbiturates. She wandered to the top of a d garage in Newport, Wales, and fell 30 feet to her death on a slab of concrete. Witnesses told a coroner's drug-takin- multi-storie- court Thursday Eileen's body chances and betrayed all the was found the next morning, trust. barely clad and painted in red "Why did I ever start? Drugs lipstick with arrows and four-lett- are evil. They cause mental words. illness, aging skin, baldness and Evans read at length from rotting teeth. the diary he said Eileen started "I can no longer behave keeping in notebooks when she naturally," Eileen wrote. moved from her home in December to an apartment she g friends. shared with er The salt companies brought suit against the railroad, but last week the Utah Supreme Court ruled they had no basis for demanding that the salinity of their water remain at a fav- wrote. "I'm very sad when I think what I've done with my life. I feel like dying. I've had all the good things. I marred ail ine tive in solving the problem. He said he hoped to reopen negotiations with the railroad on the problem. Meetings were held two years ago but ended with no solution, except the filing of the suits. Dr. William P. Hewitt, Utah Geological Survey director, told the meeting studies show the decreases in salt content at the lake's southern end are a result of both fresh water inflow, and a migration of brines through the culverts from the south to the north, without return. opening He said a 1,500-foin the causeway is needed to allow enough water flow for lake to equalize itself. The officials, however, agree that alternatives to requiring the railroad to ooen the cause way 1,500 feet should be look- ed out, primarily because of the cost. Rampton said he hoped to have another meeting in about six weeks which could involve ot railroad officials and could possibly include an inspection trip. Tooele County commissioner George Buzianis said the rail- road hadn t used the causeway all winter because of main- tenance problems, and had Gov. Rampton said Friday the routed rail traffic across the old ) stfte must now take the initia- - wooden trestle. orable level. moonlighting New York City fireman, reportedly told investigators he had halted the bus, as required by state law. But some students who survived the collision, in which three boys died and 43 students were injured, disagreed with his reported claim. "He hesitated to stop, but he kept on going. He was going too fast to stop," said Patty senior Bundick, an at Nyack High School, where the bus was taking its 49 student passengers. Stop? said the bus while others halted only the Gilcrest crossing at the Although investigators rebeginning of this week. fused to comment following Two of the boys who were questioning of the driver, who killed were found in wreckage was listed in guarded condition under the engine. The third at Nyack Hospital suffering victim died at Nyack Hospital. from internal injuries and They were identified as James shock, sources close to the McGuiness, 17, Robert Mauter-e- r, investigation reported Larkin 15, and Richard Macaylo. had told investigators he had 18, all of nearby Valley stopped his vehicle before Cottage. into the crossing. proceeding Three investigators for the Charles Carpenter, Engineer National Transportation Safety whose Penn Central Board interviewed students train slammed into the freight bus at today and said a board of the told crossing, police, be held. would inquiry however, Larkin "never stopped at all." Carpenter said he "frantically" blew his horn and set his emergency brakes when he saw the bus approaching the crossing. Two Boys Crushed However, he was unable to halt the train and it sliced into the bus, cutting it in half and in Washington and raid draft dragging a part of the vehicle about a quarter of a mile, boards in nine states. The case probably will go to strewing children, books and the jury following closing papers along the tracks. "The kids were spread all over the arguments Monday and Tuescountryside," said Police Lt. insist the But defendants day. that their plans for a "counter-trial- " George Finley. Two boys were crushed under in the streets will the third died wreckage and of what continue regardless later in Nyack Hospital. Forty-thre- e inside the happens other students, ranging in Federal Building. "We're just glad we will now age from 14 to 18 were injured, Three lost be able to participate," said the eight critically. Neil a limbs, including a boy whose Rev. McLaughlin, leg had to be amputated to free defendant from Baltimore. from the wreckage. him Sister Elizabeth McAlister, The rail crossing near this the group's spokesman on the Easter Week celebration, said hamlet 25 miles north of New the Palm Sunday procession York City was marked only by would "relive the Biblical tale warning signs and has no gates or lights. Authorities said the of Jesus' procession into was not part of the crossing Jerusalem." "Here in Harrisburg," she regular bus route. Sewer said, "we want to celebrate construction on King's Highway first and to seek to know what resulted in the rerouting of the bus' route earlier this week. makes for peace and justice. l in vention I San Diego Re-Endor- The slain deputy, Henry S. Henderson, also was shot by Martin, Cahalan said. But it was a uniformed officer, Patrolman Dennis Shiemke, who arrived at the scene later who fired the fatal shot, the shot by the officers in March 9 prosecutor said. He said confrontation. Shiemke and other uniformed One of the deputies was killed officers were not charged the had in the incident out Wayne because shooting Prosecutor William already broken out by the time County Cahalan said no charges will be they arrived and that their filed in the slaying. reactions were standard under The three policemen, mem- the circumstances. bers of a decoy unit known as Henderson also was armed STRESS-"S- top the Robberies, but did not fire his gun, were' Cahalan said. However, the Enjoy Safe Streets'' charged in a warrant issued by deputy who lived in the Cahalan Friday. They stood apartment, Henry Duvall, who mute at their arraignment and also was wounded in the were ordered held under $2,000 incident, said Henderson was bond each pending a March 29 not armed and he called examination. Cahalan a "liar." Charge Follows Investigation The STRESS officers and the Charged following an investideputies involved in the ingation in which Cahalan said, cident, who were at Duvall's "Every possible witness was apartment for a card game, all all laboratory were black. Shiemke is white. interrogated, evidence was evaluated and a lineup in front of ... all possible witnesses was conducted," were Patrolmen Virgil Stakey, 24, Ronald Martin, 37, and James Harris, 25. They were charged in the of Deputy James shorting Jenkins, who they observed entering the apartment of another deputy, carrying what appeared to be a gun. Cahalan said the three STRESS officers followed Jenkins to the apartment and that an exchange of gunfire followed. "Our opinion, based on all the statements taken and all the physical evidence in the case, is that Harris fired three times at Jenkins while Jenkins was reaching for his handgun," Cahalan said. He said Jenkins returned the fire and then took refuge in a bedroom with the five other persons in the apartment four deputies and a civilian and that he was shot by Martin and Starkey as he came out to identify himself as a deputy. 21 HdfsUMstFMJPriNs'' m rtt t .. am k I next August The memo was dated Saturday to interrogate Mrs. June 25, 1971. Dita D. Beard, the key figure in The company made no die ITT controversy, as her reference to the FBI's conclufirm disputed the FBI's analy- sion after chemical and other sis of a confidential memoranthat the laboratory tests dum attributed to her which memo had been written on a sparked a politically explosive typewriter in ITTs Washington Senate inquiry. office, where Mrs. Beard works The International Telephone as the company's chief lobbyist. and Telegraph Corp. issued a The FBI said it could not statement that two private confirm from the initialed experts it had retained conclud- letter "D" at the botUs of the ed after long examination that memo that Mrs. Beard had the memo probably was written signed it, and ITT repeated its as late as last January long earlier contention that she was after the Justice Department not the author. ITT said the reports provided settled an antitrust suit against ITT July 31 rather than some by the two experts on time in late June last year, as "questioned documents," Dr. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover Walter C. McCrone of Chicago and Mrs. Pearl Tyetell of New reported Friday. The memo, which Mrs. Beard York City, would be submitted has denounced as a forgery, to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has been invesit-gatin- g suggested that the the case in connection antitrust settlement was linked with the giant conglomerate's with Richard G. Kleindienst's offer to help finance costs of nomination to be VS. attorney the Republican National Con general. a.i r i I i rj f Baking Potatoes Onions & (Radishes i A I kd5(f ASPARAGUS 1 Tender CABBAGE 5 COCONUT DATES ! ICECREAM ! 1S5L 391 j j GELATIN Kliendienst ses I j FRUIT DRINKS Probes Memo; ij aoi. WHOLE HAMS I Nixon Denies Favor .59 I r Contribution Policy j .69 I FBI use" Fiiiycaw -- i CHEESE Kraft Mild WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Pres ident Nixon said this weekend involving International Tele- Telegraph Corp. in exchange for an ITT pledge to underwrite the 1972 help & Republican tion. National Conven- At a news conference, Nixon also said Attorney General-designaRichard G. Klein-dien- st still enjoys his confidence. Nixon's nomination of Kleindienst has been held up in the Senate during a probe of charges Kleindienst was involved in the ITT settlement. Kleindienst has denied the te A Grade Hmv Svdrf, f Stfflasflof t V FRANKS S10." ( rANTI HOSE A Enlnlwtr f Rof-U- 4 PANTI HOSE rf "I a said tests could not establish whether she had written the initial. Int. N- YAR- CbiUPap'i R9.W. We Print FILM GENEALOGY Nixon said his policy was that political contributions "must be accepted with no understanding, expressed or implied, for something in return." 4.ff . . . Ccior Rtg. Pictures To Your Specifications FILM 'KtClr "Nobody gets anything back for contributions in this administration," Nixon said. . "MJbEnwt" CUBES The ITT controversy continued Saturday as Sen. Philip A. led a seven- Hart, 2(i W.lft.rrft ln.U7 37)4441 . i CUBES A rs jSk: V f j HAIR SPRAY f AqMNfT I) Rif.sr 'I PERMANENT ! 1 Lilt Hmm !..- 89(f CORN now PLUSH PAINT ft.ty PANTS Eastland, charge. Ii HtNIUKXEYS A I - Nixon's statement was his first public comment on charges the Justice. Department settled an antitrust case phone f member subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee to Denver to question ITT lobbyist Mrs. Dita D. Beard, who has been hospitalized there. memorandum attributed to Mrs. Beard and published by columnist Jack Anderson linked the antitrust settlement to the Mrs. convention contribution. the Beard has denounced alleged memo as a forgery. However, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said Friday laboratory tests, showed the memorandum apparently was prepared on Mrs. Beard's typewriter. The memo was signed with the letter "D" written in pencil, but Hoover in a report to Sen. James O. his administration does not accept campaign contributions with the "expressed or implied" understanding there will be favors in rsturn. Intent to Murder Charges Causeway Affecting Great Salt Lake Salinity The salinity in the southern end of the lake is now 16 per cent, compared' to 26 per cent in the northern end. The problem seems to stem from the causeway, built across the lake 15 years ago. It has foot culverts only two 20 through which water can flow to equalize both the lake level and the salt content. But the southern arm of the lake has 80 per cent of the fresh water inflow. As a result it is 18 Indies higher than the northern arm and 10 per cent less salty. in A continDENVER (UPI) gent of VS. senators arrived Ulah-P- ag- 1 3 Detroit Policemen Face drug-takin- "Drugs are hell," Eileen wrote in her spidery scrawl. "I hate drugs. They all put drugs before health, food and money. It's a terrible way to die. "It's not the dying that DeDETROIT (UPI)-Th- ree worries me. It's before when I troit policemen, members of a can't get the money to buy controversial decoy unit, have drugs. been charged with assault "What worries me are the with intent to commit murder wrinkles in my face and the in the critical wounding of a infection in my veins," she sheriff's deputy one of three R. R. SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -The Great Salt Lake may become half salt water and half fresh water unless something is done to equalize the water flow north and south of the Southern Pacific Railroad causeway. Gov. Calvin L. Rampton met Friday with state officials to correct a drop in salinity in the southern arm of the lake, which has affected salt companies there. - CONGERS, N.Y. (UPI) Federal, State and Local investigators Saturday questioned student survivors of colliFriday's school bus-trasion to determine whether the bus driver had stopped the vehicle before proceeding into an unprotected grade crossing. The driver, Joseph Larkin, a complete crossings. Bus was Traveling East The bus, owned by Rockland Bus Lines, Inc., of Congers, a bus contractor, was traveling east on Gilcrest Road when it was hit by the train. Authorities Did Bus said the crossing was not part Sjme students of the usual bus route. Sewer had not stopped construction on Kings Highway said it had resulted in the bus changing to momentarily. Harrisburg 7 Refuses Chance For Defense; Promise to xTake Case to Streets7 Today HARRISBURG, Pa. 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