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Show A8 TheSaltLake Tribune WORLD Friday, October8, 1999 Relatives Waiting for the Worst Identification of British train crash victims could still be weeks away THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON Collision Near Paddington Station Laying flowers and saying prayers, a few dozen mournerstransformed a mass of twisted metal, charred human A two-cartrain leaving remains andscattered belongings into a memorial Thursday at the with a multicar train arriving at other in a quiet, retrenching dis- of what happened: site of a massivetrain collision. They sobbed and hugged each the station from Cheltenham, England. An early assessment playof grief. In the commuter townof Read- ing, dozens of people waited for police to confirm the loss of a loved onestill missing from Tuesday's crash. A bouquetlay in the town center with a note attached: “Daddy, come home, I love you, Clare.” The relatives and friends already know who didn’t come home,wholeft a car unclaimed at a railwaystation parkinglot, and 1. The two-cartrain leaves whose mobile phone rings, unanswered, amid the wreckage. But their agonizing wait for some Jose Luis Magana/ Associated Press Juan Jimenezpulls a raft carrying his family's belongings Thursday in the Asuncion Castellanos neigh- the station on Track 4. It starts to change to Track 1 to head for Bedwyn. 2. The train crosses Track 3 safely, but collides with the multicartrain, endingany' time soon. Authorities said Thursday they wouldn't even be able to get borhoodof Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, after floods covered the area. Torrentialrains have flooded arriving atthestation from Cheltenham on Track 2. inside one of the train cars until at least Saturday. They believe dozens of victims may have been inside a first-class coach where thefire ignited by the head-oncol- tivers, caused damsto overflow and sent mudslidesrolling over housesin central and eastern Mexico. Flooding’s Death Toll in Mexico Tops 100 rin t Muiticar lision was particularly intense. “We heard a very loud roar. Then the TEZIUTLAN, Mexico With dozens of people believed buried alive in mudslides, rescue workers struggled Thursdayto reach remote towns in south earth started to move and mud started to by more than a weekof rain has killed at least 131 \sidora Medina Government officials said the death toll was cer tain to rise as reports comein from towns now cut off from the outside world. Flooding sent rivers roar ing over their banks in 10 states across the southern id central portions of the countr D100 people have been forced from their homes. Ponce said Thursday. mud covered Pantepec official, Luis Francisco Diaz, appealed for since we, with our hand: at work repairing roads in crew order pared t ever is in be to governfor a full four governments failedto do. told the Televisa network the vote when one party defected Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said he hoped Vajpayee would move qui ickly to solvefric- on tions between the twocountries, which have fought three wars and now have nuclear-weapons Capability. oe of the 543 elected Withwinners Seats, Vajpayee’s declared. alliance tov. had 523 wc on 288, while Con. gress and its allies trailed at 130. We accept unhesitatingly the verdict of the peo: pj." Gandhi said in a statement “The result calls for introspection, frank assessment anddetermined action.” The poorresults could erodeGz andhi’s hold on the party which guided India to independence and llection centers in the 1id they have mosquit elie su Sh vu Carrying two ch Nn, a schoc Nab! ir i pledge soldier Israc g to makeure { of staff, Lt. uid Wednes: { warfare has ‘ . Leba ng replace prime minister t ur guert keep dow f th northern See Israeli I sul diers,” Mof in Leba € f ht tenil sol} \ diers \ to restart talks with Pakistan. push through eco- nomicbills, and move towardsigning of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Parliamentis alsolikely to have anearly discus: sion on the nucleardoctrine proposed by Vajpayee’s outgoing government. It call: nuclear deterrenceand for Weapo Vajpayee's raint in using nuclear weapons first. party promised to privatize the state ownedinsur incesector, to revampforeign exchange regulations, and open the lucrative telecommunica- tions sector all measureseagerly awaited bybusi- nessmenand foreign investors. India’s stoc! market soared to a record high y en the prospect of a more stable governand the benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange sensitive index closed 5.64 percent higher than Wednesday's close abt ad were mpared with 18 this year. dlershavedied. Mofaz said Hezbollah planted more roadside be St Barak, who has thus have er rving that they Se kept of ‘to Columbia La non $ @ 79 spend more time ir TWin,ea, pe. Sold in sets In Taran TWIN, @&. PC. sesssssseesseee 79 Isr ave ben In Leb heesinans toe ev) Drait ak Lebanon. 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Among priorities of Vajpayee’s new government, see cases anthe village of Jarjou in south Lebanonon Thursday by Israeli warplane radi fr andhi, cam Kaouk Thursda increase in alr raids was proof the Israeli army ankruptey on the battlefield" and a 1 the sinated Prime Minister Rajiv ell as skin in souther regain widowofa: but youn; party members raised questions about her political leadership. capital begun to a.AR nereas| ! rifler The arn Gen, Shaul Mofa day that the changed. “Y are using the a mo Mofa to through most ofits formative years. Most Congress party lead 's quickly affirmedtheir loy Ity to the ea BUY; reteti r and mortar 0 who were airlifted to f fi treatment, Lebanese sect ff cials said. Details on the li tion were wail able and th t from Isr The 1 fer in attempt tly to adopt improved safety ‘stems for the railways. . medicine, water, food, clothing th laraic , Church. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said he would move Mexico City appealed for help, urg: Prime Minister | Bara withdraw Israeli troops fh southern Lebanon by J In the past month, Israe i wat sraeli bombing 1 of Lebanon in April 1996 arplanes struck a . Thursday of the Muslim o zt ollah northeast f the 5 er ‘m, which the last His last government collapsed in April when he lost a confi ence motion in Parlia ament by a single a total greater than Thursday in Villahermosa, the Tabasco state capital 410 niles east of Mexico City, hundredsof people sought safety onday, theirSome rooftops many forby asoldiers second familiesThursday, were yescued SAI GREHE URE ATEER REGIE iM We are facing the most severe flooding in 40 years, We need to be on constant alert and evacuate homes as soon as possible. We will not put lives at n 1id Rurico Dominguez, civil-protection chief Jengue, hift appears to The with repeated pled: Bihari Vajpayee's 22-party alliance will give him » annual rainfall for the Mexico City area ». director of the National Water stricken areas, he said The death toll included at least 26 people who died near Teziutlan. The mountain city 110 mi t of Mexico City recorded more than 80 mudslides, one of which swept away 20 houses, said Julieta Per secretary-general for the municipality of 180,000 Isidora Medina, a year-old homemaker, said one mudslide carried away several homes Tuesday evening. She spoke Thursday at a church where ed coalition and may allow him ™ore control over thefive-yearteri mustard. that was pulled out alive. Rescuers also minission, r each colored dog 2. feet of rainfall in two days whatever it could to assist flood victims and set up helter Seventy people were confirmed dead in the state of Puebla, state Gov. Melquiades Morales said Thursday in a radio address. Most had been killed in and Pakistan. | ; The comfortable majority of Prime Minister Atal recovered the bodies of three human victims. “s : Some parts of southeastern Mexico had received President Ernesto Zedillo, who flew to Mexico on Thursday from Canada, ordered the military to do communiti gaye way on Wednesday Witn reported seeing remains from the cemetery floating in a nearby river. A cry for help Thursday turned out to have come from can't do anything, We need equipment to get out the people trapped under the mud.” he told the govern ment news agency Notimex mudslides in remote more than 20 homes when aclifftop cemetery assistance “We need help urgently NEW DELHI, India Ind ruling coalition handed jonia Gandhi's party its worst defeat Thursday, inning election on promises to widen economic reforms and revive peace efforts with hope of finding survivors in a mound of mud. ‘The Another Thursday in St. Marythe Virgin with a Great Western train two THE ASSOCIATED PI Dozens of volunteers clawed at the earth with their is and buckets Thursday with the slim The school was empty on Wednesday at the time of the mudslide, outbound Thames Train raced through a red light and collided The Thamesdriver, Michael Hodder, 31, had been on the job just two months. The Right Rev. Dominic Walker led a memorial service Pledges of Change Win Vote for India’s Ruling Coalition buried in the mud. Military rescue teams hadyet to reach Teziutlan because mudslidesblocked roads Mixun The railway companies, gov- ernment investigators and police were focusing on reports that the identified and 17 others had been she said. “We thought Tez: had ravines, that the water would flow there and that nothing like this would ever happen.” Townspeople said 30 to 40 people could still be in the mud, said Juan Francisco Ponce Salas, an offi cial in Pantepee municipality, which include expected thetoll to be at least 70. in the Westminster mortuary. Only one had been positively as if they were throwing buckets of water onto it,” escaped but at least 40 others were believed trapped firmed from the crash, the worst rail disaster in Britain in atleast a decade, and police said they Knapmansaid 25 bodies were EEE miles west of PaddingtonStation. Thirty-three deaths were con- identifiable people will come out ofthat carriage.” Homemaker In Mixun, a village in the mountains of Puebla state about 105 miles northeast of Mexico City, a mudslide buried 15 homes and a school. Ten people tentatively identified, he said. ; have to vO do this in the weeks ahead,”said Paul Knapman. “It is ‘ people from both trains. <@— To Bedwyn USATODAY involve procedures including DNAtesting. “It's quite likely that we will fall downthe hill as ifthey werethrow; . uh ing buckets of water ontoit. ernandcentral Mexico, whereflooding brought on tracks and sets fire to cars From Cheltenham =p- 472k! train Without remains, the Westminster coroner said Thursday that identifying the dead will likely PHE ASSOCIATED PRESS a "Tack 3 3 3. The force of the impact sends" tl front of the incoming mutti“ATrack112 the cartrain sprawling across the ) rit soldiers | L Full, C8, PC. .cccrceseveeee 109 Queen, 2 pe. set 239 King, 3 pe. set 319 — — i Twin,ea. pe. 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