School, homes buried under avalanche; high toll feared
MERTHY TYDFIL, Wales — (UPI)—A rain-triggered avalanche of tons of coal pit waste buried a school and crushed at least eight homes near here today.
Reports from the scene said 21 persons were dead. More than 165 persons, mostly children, were unaccounted for.
A state of emergency was declared and Queen Elizabeth sent a special message expressing her "heartfelt sympathy."
ABOUT 90 children and teachers were rescued alive from the ruins of Pantglas Infants School by frenzied rescuers tearing at the jagged debris with their bare hands.
Two hundred children were safely evacuated from an adjacent senior school which was unscathed.
A family of five died in one of
Alums speak to architects
Two KU graduates in architecture defined the purpose of their profession to the KU Chapter of Student Architects Institute of America (SAIA).
Speaking to the all-campus meeting last night in the Kansas Union, Eugene Buchanan and Jim Coombs, members of the architectural firm of Mantel and Steele, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo. agreed architects must know, understand and work with people to be successful.
More than 1,000 rescue workers, including the mayor of Merthyr Tydfil, clawed with their bare hands and with tools at the thick chunks of rock that tumbled down upon the school and the homes from a mountainlike mound behind them. Some children, bloodied and caked with grime, were pulled out alive.
The KU alums said it is important to be thorough and to create a flexible, workable solution in planning buildings or overall master plans for towns and cities.
They showed slides to illustrate specific projects they have designed, including many churches and educational units.
There were 254 children on the school's attendance rolls today when the avalanche hit. It was not immediately known how many were able to flee to safety before the school was buried.
Buchanan and Coombs, both members of the Class of '58, designed a prize-winning student union building at Central Missouri State College, Warrenburg, Mo. Drawings and pictures of the building are on display in the south lounge of the Kansas Union.
the demolished houses and a canteen worker was killed, officials said.
The Pantglas pupils had just finished morning assembly and were beginning their first lessons of the day when the debris came roaring down. Officials said it was apparently loosened by recent heavy rains.
"BECAUSE of the chaotic conditions we don't know what is happening," a police spokesman said. "We dread to think what the consequences are."
Hall plans caravan to K-State game
McCollum Hall is sponsoring a bus caravan to the KU-Kansas State football game at Manhattan Saturday, Oct. 29.
Interested persons should contact Tim Vollmer at UN 4-4062 no later than Monday evening. An unlimited number of KU students may go, the entire cost for game ticket and bus fare being $7.
Traveling on a chartered bus.
the group will leave Lawrence at 10 a.m. and will leave Manhattan on the return trip home at 6 p.m. Block tickets are being purchased at $5 a ticket.
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