European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Inside tribes d cafes cuts prices on some movie tickets Page 2 q unmarked site proposed at Arlington cemetery Page 4 d cubs increase Lead to 4 games sports Page 21 d cause of us air crash probed Back Page the stars  authorized unofficial publication add the . Armed forces Good morning vol.48, no. 159 saturday september 23, 1989 it ass  a  d 8693 a Hugo lashes s. Carolina Charleston. . A Hurricane Hugo struck South Carolina with renewed fury thursday after thousands of coastal residents in Southeastern states grabbed what hey could carry and fled i Landon jammed highways. This is a disaster staring us right in the Eye mayor Joseph p. Kilcy or. Said from his City Hall command Post in Charleston where the Hurricane downed Power and Telephone lines snapped Trees and caused Utility transformers to explode. All we can do now is Pray and Hope All the precautions we have taken have been sufficient Riley said As Hugo s Eye bore in on the City. I just Hope and Pray we can get through this without any loss of  by Midnight. 119-Mph winds were reported in Charleston. The roof cracked at City Hall a 188-year old Brick building that has withstood several Hurri canes and torrents of water poured into the panelled Council chamber. Phone and electric service to the command Post was knocked out. No injuries were immediately reported. Hurricane Force winds first hit the coast by 9 15 . Not and about three hours later the Eye of the storm passed Over the Isle of Palms just cast of Charleston. Said Bob sheets director of the National Hurricane Center in Coral Gables Fla. The Eye was about 10 Miles across and top winds were still at 135 Mph. Hugo was expected to turn gradually to the North causing severe flooding As it moved up inc East coast particularly in the appalachians. A weakened version of the storm was expected to reach southwestern Virginia within 24 hours and Blus Ter through the mid Atlantic slates in the following 48 hours the Hurricane Center said. We re forecasting it s going to accelerate very rapidly toward the North and toward the Northeast. The winds they la experience will be basically a storm. In the heavy showers thunderstorms and squalls there said sheets. Sheets also said the radar station in Charleston had been knocked out of commission and the Hurricane Center was relying on radar in Wilmington n.c., to track the storm. As Hugo neared the coast roads from Hilton head to Myrtle Beach. 200 Miles North were nearly empty As were the boarded up resort towns themselves. Power lines and Trees were downed in some spots and water flooded roads. Traffic lights and Neon signs were knocked out in Myrtle Beach. One witness said it was like a Light show Saida my Garrison a reporter at Wiz a am pm in Myrtle Beach. In Charleston the Hurricane littered streets with tin roofs Palmetto fronds and chunks of bark. Businesses were closed and classes at Public schools and universities were cancelled. Riley ordered residents of one Story Homes to evacuate. Hospitals stockpiled supplies discharging patients Well enough to go and moving others to hospitals in land to make room for emergency patients officials said. About 12.000 people had checked into 83 shelters across the stale As of thursday evening and More were expected said Kennish Brown a spokesman for the continued on Page 3 19 killed As school bus plunges into gravel pit Alton Texas a a school bus crowded with 80 students plunged More than 40 feel into a water filled gravel pit thursday kill ing 19 students after being struck by a soft drink delivery truck. The other 62 people on the bus including the Driver Gilberto Pena were taken to hospitals where fou students and the Driver were reported in critical condition. Pena had picked up the last of his 80 students in route to nearby mis Sion High school when the bus was hit by a soft drink truck about 7 40 . At an intersection cast of Alton just North of the .-Mcxico Border officials said. Survivors said the truck ran a Stop sign and struck the bus sending it careening off the Road and into the gravel pit. The truck remained along Side the Road. The truck s Driver Ruben Perez said his brakes failed said sgt. Israel Pacheco of the state department of Public safely. No charges have been filed against him. The truck passed a state inspection last week coca cola officials said. Roads were dry and the weather was Clear at the time of the Accident. Dazed survivors scrambled out of the submerged bus and stood on it screaming for help. Passers by dived into the water to pull out survivors and the dead trapped in the bus. Four boats firefighters from six departments and about 10 divers helped in the Rescue As notebooks and school papers floated in the murky water. I thought i was going to die Alex de Leon 18, said As he stood in front of Mission Hospital in Muddy pants see bus on Back Page wracked school bus is pulled from water filled gravel pit where 19 students died. Reasons for . Bases option cited by Wllliam a Baytma a an arms talks option to with draw from air bases in Britain Bop us the areas Are a excess real a slate Accord ing to a while mouse source f government sources cd inning the Bush adminis Tion s polio of cited two reasons for Chaplan that y uld affect rats mild nos Alcona ters and Fairfox Rimtho a a minor Mission a War officials dislike lh\-10 lion cd at two of Thimai on sept. 8, the ported that the bus told British prime Thatcher that the pull out of the a that could emerge of forces in Europe Vienna. 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