European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes . Wednesday january 20, 1993two-train collision leaves 7 dead 1 f a -. A 1 ,. A a .69 Hurt As cars Are ripped open workers remove a body found in the tangled commuter train wreckage monday. Gary ind. Apr cars peeled open As if they were sliced by Quot a big razor bladed when two commuter trains Side swiped each other monday killing seven people. The crash occurred at a Point where two tracks one for trains in each direction partially overlap in a space not much wider than a single track. Neither train left the track following the collision on the City a West Side just after the morning Rush hour. Investigators tried to determine whether a Crew error by signal malfunction was to blame. Both Crews said they had the Green tight the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Stin times reported tuesday citing an unidentified Railroad official. The people who were killed had been sitting next to windows. Several passengers were decapitated fire chief Ben Perry said Quot the Walls were ripped open creating an effect like a big razor Blade a he said. Perry said 69 people were injured. Two were listed in critical condition. Some were trapped up to two hours in the twisted Metal. A a we Hung on and there were people flying around a said Jane Mitchell who Wasny to Hurt. A fall of a sudden i heard this big loud explosion and i was thrown Side to Side a said Steven Locwin a jewelry maker from Valparaiso who suffered a minor Back injury. About 100 people were  trains one with three cars headed West from South Bend the other with two cars eastbound from Chicago which is about 30 Miles from the crash site. The most serious injuries were in the first cars of . The National transportation safety Board is investigating As is the Northern Indiana commuter transportation District which operates the trains. An Nosb investigator at the site refused to comment. Gerald Hanas general manager for the Railroad said it was unclear whether both trains were moving or whether one was stopped waiting to Cross the Section. He said he did no to know How fast the trains were going. The Speed limit on that Point is 45 Mph he said. Quot we look at two factors Here either human error or signal error a Hanas said. Authorities would not say which train had the right of Way. Signals at either end of a trestle near the crash site arc do signed to give the right of Way to the first train to reach the Bridge Hanas said. The signals were found to be working monday afternoon but other signalling equipment had to be checked he said. The two engineers and two conductors aboard the trains were not seriously Hurt. They were Given tests for drugs and alcohol which is routine after an Accident. Results were not immediately available. The Engineer of the eastbound train David Riordan had Bacn disciplined for his role in a 1985 crash in Gary that injured 85 people Hanas said. Riordan was a dispatcher during that crash and was demoted afterwards to Engineer said Hanas who refused to provide More information. The Lake county coroners office identified those killed As a Logan Hoffhines 10, of Lakeside Mich. A Blanche Angelov 29, of Hobart ind. 4 a Julia i Lancovic 71, of Berwyn Iii a Glenn Harris 37, of Michigan City ind. A James a Harmon 61, also of Michigan City. A Ruby Tarpon 55, of Gary. A and Douglas Willacker 50, of new  seems to run in families professor reports Chicago via lesbians and bisexual women arc up to five times More Likely than heterosexual women to have lesbian or bisexual Sisters a study says. The reports author j. Michael Bailey also led a study published in december 1991 that found genes influence male homosexuality. His research for that study was based on male twins. Quot male homosexuality has been studied far More than female homosexuality so we re a Little further along in male research than in female research Quot said Bailey an associate professor of psychology at Northwestern University. The subjects in his new study were 84 lesbian or bisexual women and 79 heterosexual women Between Ages 25 and 40 who were recruited through newspaper advertisements. The lesbians and bisexuals had a total of 99 Sisters of whom 12 were lesbians or bisexuals for a rate of 12.1 percent Bailey said. The heterosexual women had a total of 83 Sisters of whom two were lesbian or bisexual for a Rale of 2.4 percent Bailey said. Quot the rates of the homosexual Sisters in homosexual and heterosexual women were different enough i that its quite unlikely they differed by Chance a he said. The findings Are to be published in the february Issue of the american journal of psychiatry. Mystery Man revisits Poe grave Baltimore apr continuing a tradition dating to 1949, a mystery Man visited the grave site of Edgar Allan Poe on tuesday the author s birthday and left three red roses with a bottle of Cognac. Jeff Jerome curator of the City a Edgar Allan Poe House and museum said the annual Jan. 19 tribute always comes before 6 . This year Jerome and nine others spent the night waiting for the mystery Man to appear at the grave in Westminster Church. A was we were deciding whether to leave or not we saw the Man come up to the Gate at 5 05,&Quot Jerome said. The Man dressed in a Long dark coat and Black hat keeled at the grave briefly before leaving the Flowers and Cognac Jerome said. Witness accounts indicate More than one Man has maintained the birthday tribute during its 44-Ycar rim nothing is known regarding its origin the Man who brought the items in 1990 was photographed by life Magazine from a distance using infrared equipment he could not be identified however. Out of respect the Man was not confronted. Poe author of the Raven and 77ie pit and the Jvn durum among other Many works was born in 1809 and died in Baltimore in 1849. Tighter gun Laws urged by mayor Washington a the mayor of a Chicago suburb where seven restaurant workers were shot to death this month appealed monday for tougher gun Laws. A heed the sound of the shots that rang out in my City a mayor Rita Mullins of Palatine iii., told a news conference at the . Conference of mayors Winter meeting. Twenty other mayors joined Mullins in calling for passage of two measures the Brady Bill to require waiting periods and background checks for handgun buyers and a Federal ban on assault weapons. Mullins acknowledged however that the tougher restrictions might not have prevented the Jan. 8 killings. Police have not charged anyone in the Case. Quot there Are crazies out there evildoers that Are going to do this again a she said. A a in a saying a How stupid that we done to even have a the Brady Bill and the assault weapons ban a a she said she also favors automatic penalties for any one who fires a gun a even in self defense a that would be similar to state Laws that automatically revoke the licenses of Drunken Drivers. A i think there has to be consequences even if you arc using it to protect yourself a she said. A it is an act of violence a joining Mullins at the news conference was mayor Joan Darrah of Stockton calif., where four years ago a gunman opened fire at a school playground killing live children before taking his own life. The attack inspired a California Law restricting certain military style assault weapons such As the one used by the killer. President elect Clinton has said that he would sign the Brady Bill which was part of a larger crime measure blocked by republicans in Congress last year and that he also supports an assault weapon ban. A the time has come Justice will be done Quot said mayor William Althaus of York pa., the conference president