European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday november 29, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 survivor recalls Coconut Grove fire Boston a the Cuco Anui Grove Wen i up in flames 45 years ago saturday. Killing 49 people in i3 minutes and the memories remain vivid Tor those who experienced America s worst nightclub fire. It was like the flames of hell said Stanley f. Tomaszwski who was a 16-year-old Busboy when the fire rep cd at Colon s i a antics nightclub or nov. 28,1942, he was initially accused of causing it. World War ii was raging overseas 45 years ago but it was just another Post thanksgiving saturday for most bostonian. Holy Cross upset Boston College 55 12 in football and Many fans streamed into town Bent on merrymaking. The co Coajou Grove was jammed. Al 10 15 p.m., a Tongue of flame licked at a ceiling Light bulb in the club s crowded Melody lounge. Soda water was squirted Ai the fire but in did no Good. Flames snaked along paper decorations. Lights dimmed and the horror began. Hundreds of men and women began to die. Trapped and trampled behind locked doors thick Glass win Dows and revolving doors jammed by inc dead and dying. Tomaszewski and dozens of others managed Loes Cape through an open basement window. Everyone was screaming and hovering Down be cause the lire was coming Down from the ceiling and icy were edging out toward. The window he said in a Telephone interview Friday. But there seemed to be some semblance of order getting out with Usu per son boosting another to gel nut inc  it was bedlam upstairs. There were people lying there and other people running Over them like stomping tattle Tomasic ski recalled two Hundred bodies alone piled up behind the revolving door that was the main exit according to a 1962 report on the tragedy by the National fire association. Among the dead were members of the holy Cross College football team who had used the reservations that the Boston College players had made in anticipation of a Victory Celebration a couple married three hours earlier Cowboy movie Star Buck Jones and 22 members of a party celebrating an engagement. Some 200 others were injured. William Buchanan who was 17 Al the time was preparing logo to bed around 11 p.m., when he decided to turn on the police scanner his parents had just Given him. When i tuned in the tragedy was there to hear said Buchanan a reporter for the Boston Globe. In desperate exchanges police and fire and medical Crews said thai hundreds were still trapped and that bodies were being stacked on the sidewalk. A was As close As you could be to being there with out being there said Buchanan. The raw emotion in the Nick of times flu Glaus known in Germany As Der Well nachos Minn wares in Berlin Afler alighting from helicopter belonging to British forces. Saint Nick traded in tils Sleigh far he chopper so he could arrive in  in time for the opening of the Ber Lin Christmas Market saturday. Was coming through like in in Oiler Way  Tomaszewski was accused of causing the Blae by striking a match near an imitation paint tree to he could replace a Light bulb. But in 19711, the tire department concluded Liat the origins of the Ware Wen unknown. Tom a a ski who lives annul ? 1 Miles West of bos ton said people have continued to blame him anyway. People  were judge jury and provided the  he said. No matter where you went As soon As you said your name it was Bingo you reit " the harassment occurs infrequently now he said. The tragedy taught important lessons on fire safely said Paul Benzaquin author of fire in Boston s co Chanut  Safe Well lighted exits Are important. Benzaquin said we teamed that emergency lighting is cd remely important and we Learned thai we can t use plastic or artificial material that when burning produces Poison gases he said. Today the spot where the Coconut Grove once sat is just another parking lot and no memorial has been erected to the memory of victims. But Tomas Cusi remembers it was holocaust the likes of which one cannot Hope to eliminate from one s  he said. It just preys on  suspected chief of terror group seized in France Lyon France a Mas Ferrol believed to be the last known Leader of he French terrorist group direct action was arrested in a parking garage during a routine identity Check followed by a shooting Inci Dent in which two policemen were injured police said saturday according to Jacques Serra inspector general of inc Lyon police Ferrol 31, showed an identity card whose photograph did not resemble him. He Ihnn pulled out two guns and started shooting wounding i one officer in the buttocks As he i dived for cover and ricocheting a Bullet Olathe jacket Button of the other. During the shooting one of the policemen brought Frerot 10 the ground. Once captured the suspect admitted he was Mas Frerot. Subject of a 20-month search. Marc Baqucro inc wounded policeman was reported in Good condition in a Lyon Hospital saturday. The second policeman Bruno Hugo. Was not hospitalized. The arrest appeared to spell an end to direct action. Among the crimes suspected of Frerot was the july 9, 1986, bombing of a criminal police Headquarters in Paris in which one policeman was killed three seriously injured and about 20 slightly injured. Ferrol was considered the terrorist organization s explosives expert and since the March 29, 1986, arrest of Andre Olivier the last of his companions he had been nearly alone on the run. During Olivier s arrest police seized 330 pounds of direct action documents and records which led to the arrest of about 20 other people some of whom had no been i live in the organization for years Frerot subway fire discovered Early paper reports London a a newspaper re port on this month s London subway fire that killed 31 people said saturday that two subway officials spoiled the Blaze in its Early stages but were unable to put it out because there Wai no fire extinguisher nearby. The London newspaper the Independent said an investigation it carried out had established that one of inc two sub Way inspectors who first spotted inc fire was compelled to leave inc scene to search for an fax Dinguis a r while the Blaze was still Small. In said that when inspector Christo Pher Hayes resumed the flames were much fiercer and too hot for him to approach so Hal the extinguisher he brought with him was no longer of any use. It said inc Blaze at King s Cross Sta Tion nov. 18 then exploded into a fire , driving Back Hayes and his col league. London regional transport the Board that runs the capital s subway sys tem refused to comment on inc report m the newspaper. An investigation ordered by the government into Britain s worst subway fire is scheduled to Start hearing evidence from eyewitnesses next wednesday. A spokeswoman for the Board who in accordance with British practice declined to be named said. We cannot comment whilst the inquiry is going  the fire swept through the subway Sta Tion. London s busiest at the end of the evening commuter Rush filling the Sta Tion with smoke. Transport officials have said it started in a wooden escalator and May have been caused by a discarded cigarette. The Independent quoted Hayes As say ing thai he and another inspector first spotted inc fire in its Early stages As they stood in the escalator machine chamber under the escalator. The death loll Rose to 31 Friday when a Man suffering from serious Burns died at University College Hospital in Lun Ilon. The maj was not identified and a Hospital spokesman said the family Aiu a that no further information be released concerning the Man. Thousands of mourn lined the streets on Friday As the Flag draped cof Fin of fireman Colin town Fey was borne on 3 fire engine past King s Cross station where he died in inc Blaze