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Show Page 12 - THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Sunday, Marrh 8 1987 Scared, trapped, passengers tried to save each other water By AUDREY C. WOODS Assoriated Press Writer LONDON i API Amon? the tales of death in the British ferry accident are stories of heroism the grandmother who turned to help someone in a wheelchair and disappeared, the man who carried a baby to safety in his teeth and the divers who risked their lives when hope was almost gone. When the Herald of Free Enterprise, carrying more than 500 people, filled with water and turned on its side Friday night at Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium, boats and aircraft from half a dozen countries responded immediately and saved hundreds. But in the first terrifying moments when the passengers realized the ship was going over and the water rose fast around them in the dark, they had no one to turn to but themselves, according to reports reaching London on British radio, television and the Press Association. "The water was coming higher and higher and I thought I was going to drown," said truck driver William Cardwell of Northern Ireland, who had been trapped on an upper deck. "But suddenly it stopped and I heard someone say that the boat was lying on the bottom." Then Cardwell saw a man with a child under each arm and a baby in his teeth. "I saw this chap climbing over the tables and chairs holding the child in his clenched teeth. It was unbelievable," he said. The group was joined by more people, and they managed to help two young girls flailing in the water. "There was another girl in the - who drowned. There was nothing we could do," Cardwell said. They passed children up through a broken window onto the hull where they waited for a helicopter. "It was pitch dark and freezing cold," he said. "We took it m turns to rub the baby to keep it warm." Said college student Rebecca Carbley, 18: "The boat was going over. A wheelchair suddenly went past with someone in it. My grandmother instinctively put out her hand to stop it. She was carried with the wheelchair down the ship and we didn't see her again." "I don't know if she's alive or dead," she said. "Everybody was helping each other, holding each other's said Susan Hames from Frankfurt, West Germany. She said she was in the restaurant when the ship turned over. "The water came up over me and I was sucked into it. I could feel people all around me but I couldn't see much because it was dark." She said a crew member pulled her to a ledge above the water and she escaped up a rope ladder dropped from a broken hands," warning for some time that they planned a major blow before the Persian calendar year ends March 21. Western military analysts said thev expect further Iranian assaults all along the battlefront in the coming weeks. The Iranian strategy appears to be to keep the Iraqis off balance at several sectors at once in the hope of finding a hole in the formidable Iraqi defense system, then send in their overwhelming numerical superiority. But Western analysts doubt that the Iranians, despite rejecent injections of new hardware, have the firepower to match the Iraqis or make any sizeable breakthrough. The Iranians' main aim appears to be to intensify the political pressure to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who ordered the invasion of Iran in September 1982. Ousting Saddam is Khomeini's main objective in the war and the main condition e has set for ending the gruelir 4 conflict which, by B EI) BLANCHE Associated Press riter NICOSIA, Cyprus (APi Iran said its forces, fighting in freezing weather, wiped out two Iraqi briKurdes-tagades in the d mountains Saturday in a offensive. Iraq claimed its troops, backed s by fighter-bomberhelicopter and fierce artillery barrages, repulsed an attack by two divisions of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's - snow-covere- n d four-day-ol- gun-ship- Revolutionary Guards in heavy-fightin- near the southern Iraqi port of Basra. Baghdad's official Iraqi News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, also announced that Iraqi warplanes attacked a "large naval target," which usually means a tanker carrying Iranian oil, in the northern Persian Gulf Saturday, scoring an accurate and effective hit." Iran made its claims in its official Islamic Republic News Agency report also monitored in Nicosia. The rival claims could not be independently confirmed. Both sides rarely allow correspondents or other observers into the battle zones war. of the 6 The fighting in the northern and e southern sectors of the battlefront spurred speculation that ALL Western estimates, has killed or more than one million people. An Iraqi spokesman said Friday that continued Iranian shelling of Iraqi cities, including Basra, could prompt Iraq to resume bombing k raids on Iranian cities after a two-wee- The Iranians claimed they have seized about 20 square miles since a northern offensive began late lan the Iranians were intensifying pressure on the Iraqis to stretch their defenses. Tehran's leaders have been PROVO 110 S. 500 SO W. PAYSQN land. "I was sitting in the drivers' restaurant. 1 felt the point of no return and we started scrambling up the tables. Some people started screaming. 1 don't know how long we staved in but someone broke a side window and we were all able to climb out," said Edwards. Dr. Roland Wellemans. who treated the ferry's captain, quoted his patient as saving the ferry went down in one minute and he had no time to send a distress signal. The captain, David Lewrv. 46. who is being treated for shock and a punctured lung in a Brugge hosptial. told Wellemans he heard some sort of crash and then the ship went down, said the British news agency Press Association. There was no collision with another ship. Early reports said the vessel struck a pier or harbor wall, but Ovington said later the company had been told "the ship DYS 9AM W boats Emma Smith, 28, said she was saved from one of the ferry's vehicle decks by a man who pulled her through a broken window. She, her husband Bob and their son Mike had just left their car when the ferry turned over. "I have not seen my son or husband since, I don't know if they are alive," she said. ' I 3 iFT jrQU Vy y(Tti VUJ vJ I lyuM did not actually hit anything." In Britain, leaders expressed their shock. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was flying to Zeebrugge today, called the disaster "a tragedy of enormous proportions." "We are faced with a tragic accident, this is a real catastrophe." said Belgian lYime Minister Wilfried Martens, who went to the harbor along with Belgium's King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola. Pope John Paul II. in messages to the Roman Catholic Cardinals in Britain and Belgium, expressed his sadness over the disaster. Scores of relatives of missing passengers gathered at the ferry company's offices in Dover, England, waiting for word of their Safety precautions on the ferry were up to the usual d vessel's stabilizers. He said no rash of cancellations followed Friday's disaster. An Associated Press reporter in Dover said passengers were bustling through ferry ports on Saturday. The Herald of Enterprise was a roll-of- f vessel of a type that is used worldwide. Though widely regarded as safe, theyif also are known to sink quickly water floods the lower deckse where vehicles are parked. passenger decks on liners, roll-o- n 'In-lik- NOT NECESSARY BUT O'KEEFE & MERRITT ELECTRIC RANCE j . 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It was the seventh accident in the past five years involving terries in that section of the English Channel and North Sea. The worst passenger vessel disaster since World War 11 was the sinking of the Japanese ferry Toya Maru in Tsugaru Strait, Japan, on Sept. 28, 1954. when 1.172 people died. C",""&,""" WASHER '8 ' A fUll MfftS lffW3 tfW 1 REMOVABLE LINT FILTER DURABLE PORCELAIN LB FINISH DRUM ELECTRONICALLY HEAVY DUTY QUALITY TESTED & S I TESTED .tf it. 1 "IfROWAVI rJ ENAMELS WHIRLPOOL WASHER SIZE 650 WATTS ATO TOUCH 8 LB CAPACITY VARIABLE CYCLES TEMP SELECTIONS SIZES FULL t . load 4la-ho- Quasar MICROWAVE PORTABLE iro'V. " .STo.aMip M49 iffl. '139 rviJ, TV BY SYLVANlAl (BUILI 25 DIAG such vehicle decks do not have water-tigh- t compartments to contain flooding and limit listing. The National I'num ol Seamen called Saturday tor a review ol the design ol the standard terry vessel. The lust roll-o- roll-oi- n l introduced in 1952 Dover and Calais. 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Townsend Thoresen, the Dover-baseoperator of the capsized of Free Enterprise, Herald ferry is tlie biggest nm'H iiti THE INCOME TAX PEOPLE NEPW . . . 139 S. Main 740 S. State 0REM f (Continued from Page 1) "There were bodies all over the place," said Dr. Guy Van Hoon-aeke- r, one of the first doctors to reach the capsized vessel. "There were no survivors anymore. Divers said they could not swim in the hulls because they were full of bodies. I saw more than a hundred bodies myself," sail I 'an Hoonaeker, the deputy director of St. Jean Hospital in Brugge, 8 miles south of Zeebrugge. Asked repeatedly at the news conference whether he had any clue to the cause of the disaster, Peeters replied: "I know something but I won't tell you." Panicked passengers smashed windows in desperate efforts to escape the frigid rising water. 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