European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 01, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside stripes d police deluged with Call on night stalker Page 5 d keeping up with the Var craze pages 13-15 d Tornado halt play at Tennis open Page 21 the St ars and tripes auth mild unofficial  Fqy vol. 44, no. 136 sunday september 1, 1985 Florida Waits while Elena roars Panama City Fla. A the leading Edge of Hurricane Elena swamped coastal areas with High tides thunderous Urf and torrential rain Friday As the storm its Central rinds spinning at 100 Mph turned eastward toward , already 3so Miles wide could be come even More powerful before its Eye Roan ashore said Neil Frank director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral  the Hurricane hits the Florida coast coastal residents there have Only two choices said gov. Bob Graham. They car. Stay in their Homes and face almost certain in jury or death or can evacuate immediately an protect their  the Florida National guard was called out to assist in evacuations earlier in the Day and Graham told police to go door to door and order people to leave. Shortly before noon Graham ordered mandatory evacuate of residents of Low lying areas of seven coastal counties and mob Leborne residents in ill areas of those counties. He bad previously Only recommended the evacuation but strengthened the order after reports of people refusing to leave. Graham s spokesman Steve Hull said 1,600 National guard troops would be available to Aid evacuation across Northern Florida and that 250 already were working in Pensacola. After the storm changed directions Fri Day Hurricane warnings were shifted extending from Panama City eastward to Tarpon Springs. Gale warnings extended Down to Venice South of St. Petersburg. Estimates of the number of people to be evacuated in the seven county area of the Western Panhandle ranged from 224,000 to 318,000, said Joy Mcllwain spokeswoman for the division of emergency manage ment she said there was no Way to Esti mate the number of labor Day tourists already in Thearra along Florida s Santa Rosa Okaloosa and Walton counties the weather re Rice reported surging seas of up to is feet tides 3 feet to 5 feet above Normal and flooded roads. Rain fell so hard at Apalachicola at midday that visibility was Only about 20 feet. Thousands had fled to High ground along the Gulf of Mexico from Louisiana to Northern Florida but some of the evacuees see Elena on Page 28 satellite photo shows Elena Over the Gulf of Mexico. The storm is 350 Miles at least 36 killed in French train wreck Argentos sur Creuse France a a speeding passenger train derailed Early saturday near Thi scentral French town and a second train smashed into the wreckage killing As Many As j6 people and injuring Doz ens More officials reported. A local official earlier said 30 people were lulled. Res Cue workers put the number of injured at Between 200 to 300. Six injured Are seriously Hurt about 10 others Are a Little Kun Ter Kuly injured and so to 70 were treated and released said Jean Michel Roulet Secretary general of the local government. Several dozen victims remained trapped in the twisted can several hours after toe Accident As Rescue workers continued efforts to Cut them out officials said. A official of the state run Railroad said the Driver of the passenger train told investigators the train was going62 Mph when i passed through Argentos sur Creuse in Central France. The Speed limit in the area was 25 Mph because of construction work. He could Only derail said Andre Gui Hamaud regional director of the Railroad. According to Roulet five cars of the passenger train travelling South from Paris Austerlitz station to Limoges Toulouse and the Mediterranean town of port Bou de railed shortly after Midnight soon after leaving the station at Argentos. The derailed cars careened onto another track and a freight train coming in the opposite direction from Tou Louse on a second track rammed into them Roulet said. Police firemen and railway workers were rushed to the crash site where Panicky survivors Many of them bleed ing screamed and ran about witnesses said. Some tried to find friends and relatives trapped in the wreckage. Helicopters and ambulances carried the injured to hospitals officials said. Within 30 minutes the whole town was on the scene to help or to Comfort the injured said Andre adv Enier mayor of Argentos sur Creuse a town of about 7,000 people. There was an immense spirit of  adv Enier one of the first to reach the site said he was going to bed when he heard the Siren alerting the town fire department. Three blasts that Means All firemen to the firehouse he said. All Rescue services arrived at the scene in the 30 min uses that followed. The 12 doctors of Argentos and the town s 30 firemen were joined soon after by 200 of their colleagues from neighbouring  the biggest problem he said was finding ladders to climb on top of overturned railway coaches. The mayor said the bodies of the dead were taken to a room next to City Hall. The injured were taken to Hospi tals and clinics in chateau Roux the area s administrative Center. Adv Enier said uninjured passengers were taken to the City s meeting Hall where they were Given Coffee and Sand Wiches by townspeople. My town did its Best he said. We could t have done  the Accident occurred at a time when millions of French people were returning Home from their traditional August vacation. It was the third Railroad tragedy in France in leu than two months. On aug. 3, two trains collided head on at Flau Jac killing 32 people and injuring 165. On july 5, a be Havre Paris train hit a Large truck at a level crossing at St. Pierre due vouvray in Normandy killing eight people and injuring 55. Drummond off Respirator Affer artificial heart implant Tucson Ariz. A Michael Drummond the youngest person to receive a mechanical heart was weak with a persistent fever Friday but nevertheless sat up in bed and was taken off a Respirator. Drummond 25, who on thursday received a Jarvik-7 heart to sustain his life until a human heart can be implanted had a 102.5-degree fever. Or. Jack Copland  was taken off a Respirator Friday afternoon and was Given a few sips of soda As he sat and talked briefly with or. Mark Levinson head of the University medical Center artificial heart research Drummond will not be considered for a human heart transplant for at least a week to give him time to gather strength said Copeland who performed the implant. It s not uncommon to see a fever in patients immediately after open heart sur Gery said Copland. But it usually Clear sup in eight to 10 hours. The persistence of the Elevation in temperature is worrisome to  said the temperature might be caused by an infection and that there was indication of infection around one Catheter. Earlier Copeland said Drummond looks about 1,000 percent belter than he did. Before we made the decision to put in the heart. He s moving his hands his feet he looking around and so far we have no Evi Dence of any neurologic injuries. His lung function has improved  Drummond s parents Joan and Clarence Drummond Sisters Debbie and Jamie and brother Mark had visited him several times since the operation Copeland said. Drummond an assistant supermarket manager was the sixth per san to receive a Jarvik-7 heart including four other men inthe United Stales and one in Sweden. Three of the previous recipients including the swede Are still alive. For the first time in Drummond s Case the mechanical device was intended Only Asa temporary measure while doctors search for a suitable human donor heart. Without the artificial heart Copeland said drum mond would have lived 12 to 24 hours. Copland said he will not proceed with transplant for at least a week to allow Drummond to recover from the operation saying he s been very sick in the last few  the surgeon said he did not want to wait longer than three weeks because he s going to develop scar tissue around that  that s going to make it difficult to go Back in. We want him to get Well but not too Well he said. The chances of complication from the artificial heart in the meantime Are fairly Small Copland said. Hospital spokeswoman Nina Trasoff quoted Levinson As saying that Drummond was exhausted from struggling to stay alive before the operation. She said Levinson compared it to swimming upstream against the current for four or five Days to see Drummond on Page 28