European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 20, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 7 Bloomfield . A a double Decker bus carrying gamblers to Allan tie City crashed into a rail read trestle shearing off the top of the vehicle and killing one person and injuring about a dozen said the Driver i Rcd sunday o drive the 13-Fooi-ft-Incfj High bus under a trestle with of ii feet 8 inches police said the Bloomfield transportation committee chairman Samuel Goldsticker said the bus was on a Road from which the township had recently banned doable Decker buses because of traffic congestion and the trestle s Low clearance. I can confirm a had n fatality. 1 believe ii s Man said officer Catherine Sherman. She said about a do7.cn other people were injured. Sherman said she did not know if any charges had been filed against tic bus Driver or if the Driver was injured. A woman on the bus was in critical condition with multiple facial injuries said a spokeswoman for univer sity Hospital in Newark who refused to give her name. I understand she was sitting on the lop of the bus the spokeswoman said. The injured woman was not identified. Police said the bus was heading North when in approached a Railroad trestle that was marked with yellow warning signs that vehicles taller than 11 feet 8 inches could not pass under. The bus was i Raveling about 40 Mph when it slowed into the trestle police said. Timothy Mcginnis 37, of Washington township in Bergen county said he was sitting at he rear of the bus when he heard a smashing sound. Glass rained Dawn on the passengers and he ducked for cover he said. Phil Ellery a dispatcher for Leisure lines of Man Wah owner of the bus said the vehicle was a Standard double Decker bus. He declined further comment. Mcginnis said there were about 14 passengers Riding on the upper level of the bus. He said the Bonom level was full but did not know How Many people were aboard. Sherman declined to identify the dead passenger say ing the family had not been notified. Bomb in Wyoming school did t completely detonate Cokeville Wyo. A a bomb thai exploded As a heavily armed couple held Iso children and adults hostage in an elementary school Only partially detonated officials say. There were seven blasting Caps that did to go off said cock Villa elementary school principal Max Excel. He acted As an intermediary Between authorities and David and Doris Young during in standoff on Friday the Youngs died and 79 people were the Caps Xvi re attached to powder that would have exploded like a Grain elevator said Excell. He spoke sunday to the congregation at the Cokeville mormon meeting House. However Lincoln county investigator Earl Carroll said it Wai not known How much More serious inc explosion could have been. What kind of powder it was and what it would have done if it had blown we Don l know Carroll said. Young shot himself 2vi hours after the takeover of the school began when a Home made gasoline bomb exploded in his wife s hands. Authorities said sunday that mrs. Young May have been shot by her husband. Investigators had said Doris Young was killed instantly by the explosion which occurred after Young passed a shopping cart filled with jugs of gasoline to his Wile and went to the bathroom. Doris Young apparently let go of a dead Darld Young Man s switch rigged to explode if released said Lincoln county sheriff t. Deb Wolfley. The switch was attached to the shopping cart and led to a blasting Cap fitted onto Container of gasoline authorities said. Other blasting Caps were attached to containers of powder they said refusing to give further details. Sheriffs investigator Ron Hartley confirmed sunday that agents from the Federal Bureau of alcohol Tobac co and firearms speculated that Young shot his wife because part of her Skull had been blown off an injury the gasoline bomb was unlikely to have caused. Hartley declined to elaborate saying said the results of autopsies performed saturday had not been released. Seventy Highl people suffered second de Gree Burns and music teacher John Milter was shot in the shoulder. Miller was released from an Idaho Hospi Tal saturday but nine people remained hospitalized in Idaho and Utah one in critical but stable condition and another serious. Meanwhile Sulho relics were investigating whether the Youngs had links to right Wing extremes groups such As posse comi hiatus or the aryan nation an Idaho based White supremacy group. Hartley said interviews with a number of people had convinced him that Young planned and executed the Schemoon his own. Wolfley said saturday that an entry in Doris Young s diary i wonder what Well be called in the new world indicated a possible connection to the posse co Milatus members of that extremist group often Are linked la Federal income la protests and assert that a county sheriff is the highest Law enforcement authority. Excell told the congregation that meet Ings would be held monday with psychologists and social workers who would help the children and their parents Cope with their feelings about the tragedy. Psychologists who had worked with Vic Tims and families after the massacre at the Mcdonald s restaurant near san Diego calif., in i9s4 thai left 21 people dead vol. Imie ered to come to Cokeville Excell said. Robert Cory whose two daughters were hospitalized in Idaho with Burns said the fam ily would probably take advantage of psycho logical help. However he said what they All need most is just lots of love and Excell told the congregation sunday thai he and others survived because of intervention from on High. I did t sue any an gels in thai classroom except the children but there were Angels there authorities remained puzzled by the con tents of about three dozen notebooks found in Young s Van and a i Page typewritten statement that was waved about by Young during the classroom confrontation. Right now the diaries Don t make sense. Hartley said. They re Clear full of symbols and abbreviations two parachutists leap from Pittsburgh skyscraper Pittsburgh a two parachutists leaped off the . Steel building and floated 841 feet Down to a waiting getaway car minutes before the Start of Pittsburgh Marathon authorities said. Both skydivers were whisked away sunday from an apparent pre arranged Landing site in the nearby civic Aren Parkins lot before startled Security guards and police officers could apprehend them. A third Man who accompanied the skydivers to the top of the 64-Story triangular building was arrested after he captured the stunt on videotape. Thomas a Ufnowski 45, of Gibsonia was charged with criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct said patrol Man David Mcculoch. Zukowski identified he parachutists As Donald sulk Owski 31, and Alan Danko 37, of Pittsburgh and said in a Telephone interview that the stunt was done in response to a similar feat april 24 when two britons parachuted off the Empire state building in new York City. The is. Steel building which opened in 1970, is the highest skyscraper Between new York City and Chicago. The two British jumpers used Static lines. These Guys Felt they could jump of f . Steel without malic lines and still maintain safety Zukowski said. A Static line is an attached Cord that automatically opens the Chute. Without such a line inc Juniper Musl open the Parachute manually we wanted to show Pur British cousins we could make a free fall from a building without a Static line Danko said in a Telephone interview he said he and Sulkowsky had made More than 3,000 jumps and carefully planned the event to make it Safe. We had 10 people on the ground to keep our Landing zone Clear. We knew what we were doing. Safety was the ultimate thing Danko said. Everything just fell into place. Weather conditions were perfect. The fact that today was the Marathon made in a Little bit easier for us. Actually i never thought we d get past the ground floor Zukowski said. The three entered the downtown building about i . And made their Way to the roof by telling Security guards they were with television station Kaka and planned to film the 26.2-mile race. Mcculloch said. Zukowski was holding a mini Cam similar to inc Cam eras that television stations use Mcculloch said. As soon As they got to the roof. Zukowski set up his equipment and the two men Wared to the others on the roof and jumped one at a time the officer said. Zukowski was detained after Security personnel deter mined he was not with the television station. I be got an excellent video said Zukowski. The two jumpers equipped with parachutes that can be steered glided Over to a parking lot where they escaped in a Black car police said Mcculloch said police probably would not vigorously pursue the jumpers. I Don t think anybody really cares,1 he said. I think it s kind of neat.1 Zukowski was freed on 1200 Cash Bond and is to appear for a preliminary hearing May 27. Onward Christian soldiers May get drummed out Nashville Tenn. A Onward Christian soldiers should be left out of Itie new methodist hymnal and other lyrics considered Mill Anflic or Sci isl should be changed a Church committee has voted. The United methodist hymnal revision committee wrapping up a Hryc Day con Ference voted 10-8 saturday to delete the popular hymn which appears in the latest edition of the Book of i m trying to raise my sons to be peace makers nol soldiers and in s not easy said Mary Brook Casad a committee member from Gainesville a. The hymn s refrain is Onward Christian soldiers marching As to War with the Cross of Jesus going on i Don t think people who sing it have any idea of shooting anybody said the Rev. . Handy Bishop for the Missouri area. Other committee members appealed to the song s 80 percent use rating in churches based on a Survey Thill showed Many congregations had Sung it at least once in the past year. Revisions for a new hymnal to be published in 1988 or 19s9, must be approved by delegates 10 the 1988 general Confer ence the committee also voted to retain Only the chorus of mine eyes have seen the glory based on the civil War Era Battle hymn of the members voted to retain am 1 a Soldier of the Cross considered to contain an acceptable use of military imagery because it minis to the Christian s daily struggle in follow Jesus. The committee also agreed to retain Rise Upo men of god despite the litle i perceived sexism. The group voted to change sexist references about people when possible such at changing All men to neighbor and our Brethren to thy
