4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 3.2005
BOATING ACCIDENT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sgt. Steven Stackdale kneels near the victims of the capsized Ethan Allen tour boat on Sunday afternoon at the staging point at Lake George, N.Y. The Shoreline Cruises boat, carrying 47 senior citizens, capsized Sunday afternoon off Cramer Point on Lake George. At least 21 people died.
Glass-enclosed boat capsizes; 21 dead
BY CHRIS CAROLA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — A glass-enclosed boat carrying tourists on a senior citizens' cruise overturned Sunday on a calm lake in upstate New York, killing at least 21 people and sending more than two dozen cold and wet passengers to a hospital.
The 40-foot Ethan Allen capsized around 3 p.m. on Lake George about 50 miles north of Albany, N.Y. in the Adirondack Mountains.
Authorities were investigating whether a large passing tour boat created a wake that caused the accident, Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said.
The accident apparently happened so fast that none of the passengers was able to put on a life jacket, Cleveland said.
Patrol boats that reached the scene within minutes found other boaters already pulling people from the water. All passengers had been accounted for within two hours.
Twenty-seven people were taken to a hospital in nearby Glens Falls. Some suffered broken ribs and some complaining of shortness of breath. Five people were to be admitted, hospital snokesman Jason White said.
Police investigators were at the hospital late Sunday.
Dorothy Warren, a resident who said she brought blankets and chairs to shore for survivors, said one passenger told her "she saw a big boat coming close and she said, 'Whoop-deedoo. I love a rocking boat.'"
Warren said the woman did not know how she got out of the water but said her mother was killed.
Many of the bodies were laid out along the shore, and the site was blocked off by police with tarps. A hearse, police vehicles and several sport utility vehicles later began taking the dead from the scene.
At the time of the accident, the weather was clear and in the 70s at Lake George, a long narrow body of water that is a popular tourist destination.
Get on the bus
Sara Garlick/KANSAN
Major Wade Abel and Cadet Nick Potter of the University of Kansas' Army ROTC discuss the field training exercises that were conducted this weekend at Fort Leavenworth. The cadre and cadets commenced a series of day and night land navigations and set up patrol bases and squad training exercises.
BOMBINGS
Indonesia raises alert level after attacks
BY CHRIS BRUMMITT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALI, Indonesia — Police raised the alert level for Indonesia's capital and the president warned of more attacks Sunday as a chilling video shot the day before showed a suspected bomber clutching a backpack and strolling past diners moments before one of three suicide bombings killed
26 people on Bali.
The near-simultaneous bombings on the resort island also injured 101 people, including six Americans.
The attacks apparently were planned by Southeast Asia's two most-wanted men, who are believed to be connected to an al-Qaida-linked group, said Maj. Gen. Ansaaya Mbai, a top Indonesian anti-terror official.
Fear of more attacks on tourists prompted Israel to warn its citizens Sunday not to travel to Egypt's Sinai desert during the upcoming month of Jewish holidays, saying it has information that Arab militants planning strikes against Israelis already are located in the resort area.
The alleged masterminds of the Bali attacks were believed to be Azahari bin Husin and Noor-
din Mohamed Top, both Malaysians who fled to Indonesia after a crackdown on militants following the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said.
The masterminds were not among the suspected bombers, whose remains were found at the scenes, officials said. All three bombers were believed to be wearing belts of explosives, police said.
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