European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Inside stripes d night stalker suspect caught Page 2 g Tornado Halu Nlay at Tennis open Page 21 n astronauts catch wayward satellite Page 28 vol. 44, no. 136 sunday september 1, 1965 Elena races toward Florida heavy storms Are shown near the Eye of Hurricane Elena near Center in this photo taken saturday morning. Cedar key Fla. A Hurricane Elena boiled toward Florida s Central Gulf coast saturday lashing the slate with heavy rain and tornadoes pushing sea water across coastal lowlands and forcing nearly a Mil lion people to flee including occupants of hospitals and nursing Homes. The storm s 40-mile-wide Eye. Surrounded by 00-Mph wind was still 55 Miles West Southwest of Cedar key at midday but the Remote Community jutting into the Gulf of Mexico already Felt the storm s effects and was isolated by wind whipped wives washing Over its Lone Highway to the Mainland. They re getting it pretty bad at Cedar key. They have sustained winds of 65 said civil defense director William Cobb. Most of the 750 residents had fled but a few Rode out the storm in a school House said Mickey Graham a Levy county sheriffs Deputy. Telephones to the school were out. Gov. Bob Graham had extended evacuation orders to Low lying and coastal areas As far South As Sarasota late Friday. On sat urday he urged Mobile Home residents in Low lying areas of 15 Inland counties to evacuate. Hurricane warnings were posted from Apalachicola South to fort Myers including the Tampa Bay area. Gales and Torna does howled voc Nuch of the Region in Advance of Elena a 350-mile-wide temp born last week off the coast of Africa. The most severe weather was concentrated about 50 Miles out from the storm s Center said forecaster Miles Lawrence at the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables. The Gale Force winds arc already affecting portions of the Florida coast Lawrence said. The winds already started and they la strengthen As the Center approaches at noon the storm s Center was near Lati see Elena on Page 28 of East 43 killed in French train crash Argentos sur Creuse France a a speeding express train derailed on a curve shortly after Midnight saturday and was struck seconds later by a mail Tram on the opposite tract killing at least 43passengers and injuring 85, including Many Spanish and British tourists. Ten of the injured were reported in Crit ical condition. Police arrested Jean Yves Brisset 37, the Driver of the overnight express from pans to port Bou on the Spanish Border. A to spokesman said Brisset 37, admitted neglecting a temporary Speed limit posted at a construction site. It was France s third major train crash in eight weeks and the worst in 13 years. The government ordered an immediate investigation of the entire safety system on in of the state Railroad network which carries nearly 800 million passengers a year. Scores of rescuers worked throughout the night and Well into the Day cutting through the twisted wreckage to extricate the dead and injured. Rescuers said some of the Sleeper compartments in the passenger train were compressed by the Impact to a Width of less than 8 inches. The in of promised full compensation for All the victims. More than half the dead remained unidentified in an improvised morgue in this Village of 7,000 inhabitants 188 Miles South of Paris. Henri Guicharnaud the in cos Region Al director for Central France told reporters that the express comprising 14 All Sleeper cars was running at More than 62 Mph where it should have slowed to a maximum of 18 Mph alongside the construction site of a new signal Block. The scheduled average Speed on the train s nightly 650-mile run to the South Western tip of France is More than 75 Mph. Brisset noticed his error too late. Guicharnaud said. Realizing the Gravity of the situation h slammed on his brakes and simultaneously switched on a flashing see crash on Page 28to port Bou on the spams re order. Ponic m ii air Jbv be. A r space walkers jump Start derelict satellite space Center Houston a space shuttle discovery s space walkers jump started a dead satellite saturday and whooped with Joy when the energized syncom flickered to life and snapped an Antenna into dog look at that exclaimed space Walker Bill Fisher Ujj the Antenna whipped out f of the top of the $85 million 3 came to life after Fisher and fellow space Walker James Van Hoften wrestled the fully fuelled 7w-ton Craft onto Dis covery s robot Arm and installed two boxes that replaced failed electronics on the satellite. A second spacewalk on sunday i needed to remove a Battery pack used in the jump Start and to release the satellite to orbit. Saturday s space stroll lasted seven hours 10 minutes and sunday s comple Tion of the Salvage Job is expected to take another three hours 55 minutes. The need for the second spacewalk will Force discovery to land before Dawn tuesday at Edwards fab in California. The shuttle launched tuesday Wouldhave landed monday had Only one space walk been needed. Van Hoften and Fisher fell behind sched ule As they struggled to control the 14-foot, fully fuelled satellite before it was grasped by discovery s robot Arm. It feels a Little More massive than what we trained on Van Hoften nicknamed of because of his strength admitted after holding the Craft for almost half an astronauts took turns holding the satellite until it was in the grasp of the robot Arm. Television pictures beamed to Earth showed Fisher holding the syncom 3 see satellite on Page 28
