NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 17, 1983
Page 11
United Press International
LATEX, La. — A Kansas City-Southern Railroad freight train derailed yesterday near the Louisiana-Texas border, causing a chemical explosion and large fire. One person was reported missing and at least six other were injured.
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LATEX, La. — A Kansas City Southern Railroad freight train trained yesterday near the railway injuring at least six people, officials said several cars carrying a toxic chemical exploded and burned out of control.
Train derails and injures six; cars with chemicals explode
Four engines and at least one boxcar loaded with 55-gallon drums of the toxic chemical cypernethen burst into flames, forcing officials to evacuate residents in the sparsely populated area 10 miles west of Blanchard, La.
Officials said one man was missing and up to six others were injured when the 75-car train was mistakenly divided into crashes that crashed into parked flat cars loaded by
An estimated 9,000 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled from the locomotives was blazing. Bunn said.
"WE ARE MISSING one man and we don't know where he is," said Richard Bunn, head of the hazardous material response team of the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office. "He could be at a hospital."
"Somehow that train got switten onto a spur line that goes into this pulvedum plant and the train slammed into cars loaded with wood," Bunn said. "We don't know if it was premedicated or if it was a mechanical failure."
Tony Shomeker, a foreman at the Haughton Lumber Co., said he saw the train come rolling into the vard.
Bunn said officials were unsure what caused the 75-car train to reel into the lumber yard about 3 p.m. CST.
"WE'VE GOT A piggy back car behind a rear locomotive that we believe contains cypernethren, a flammable, and the piggy back has ruptured and the barrels were on the ground and have been on fire for some time," he said.
mined five locomotives and up to four boxcars had derailed, but he said the number could be higher.
"I turned around and saw two of my men falling off the (log) car. I just ran to the telephone and called for help. When she could see was a big ball of fire," he said.
"We don't believe there's a great danger, but we're approaching it cautiously."
Bunn said authorities had deter-
"What we want is a well-qualified mouser," a spokesman said.
He clocked out at 1 a.m. five hours before his shift ended. The day signalman ventured into the signal box after he arrived at 6 a.m., but commuter services to London were delivered well into the rush hour.
State-run British Rail is now looking for a new man who can cope with mice.
Press reports said that the sight of mice scampering among levers in the tower at Southbourne, 65 miles away, had been reported too much for the night signalman.
"When the weather gets cold, a signal box makes a warm home for them, but normally signalmen are used to dealing with them," he said.
LONDON — Rush-hour morning trains ground to a halt in two southern English towns yesterday because the signal tower was taken over by mice and the faint-hearted signalman fled.
Rush-hour trains in London area stopped by mice
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