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mm edition mmamtmmm rkoME on the go i CGiecCdBflg tko inniiEoage off veCuSeDeG section EMMA EEPUMIC 35c Arizona Republic Arizona Copyright 1 989, Phoenix, Mils' The Hugo 12 im Caroliiias r'TTWSosrPSKiTF "sr.rr- mr 'f'r- -wfJ'V II 100th year, No. 128 Charleston devastated by 135-mph wind By Bruce Smith The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. Hurricane Hugo punched this city of antebellum mansions with full fury and killed at least 12 people in the Carolinas before weakening Friday and trailing off inland to the north. "Charleston," Charleston County official Bill McCauley said, his lips quivering and tears rimming his eyes, "Charleston has been hit real hard. Our county has been pretty much devastated." It was an accurate report.

Hugo's bull's-eye attack on the historic port city left destruction everywhere. More than 30 buildings collapsed in Charleston. The roof at City Hall was ripped off, as were those on hundreds of other buildings and homes. Signs, utility poles and trees were snapped by the storm. shrieking at a reported 135 mph, plucked steeples from churches and cornices from brick walls.

South Carolina's barrier islands were also hit hard as houses were blown off their foundations and boats were pushed ashore, stacked along the beaches two and three deep. See HUGO, page A6 RELATED STORIES A LIFE SNUFFED OUT: Baby killed by storm, A6 THEY DO': Crash, hurricane can't stop wedding, A7 IN CHARGE: 19-year-old cadet calms evacuees, A8 two-story house, collapsing the structure just as McCloud, 55, sought a snack in the kitchen. His imprisonment started an eight-hour drama played out in a poor, shabby section of Charleston. It was a drama acted out by strangers thrown together to handle a disaster. It was a drama played often Friday, in various forms, as Charleston's Sec NEIGHBORS, pagcA7 Gary BoedonThe Orlando.

Sentinel a tidal surge of 12 to 17 feet. were swept into a pile by the force of Hurricane Hugo, which clobbered the city with Street Edition Saturday, September 23, 1989 Irving Berlin The musical giant (in 1946, left, and 1973) set the tone and the tempo for the tunes America sang for much of the 20th century. Songster Irving Berlin is dead By Marilyn Berger The New York Times NEW YORK Irving Berlin, a Russian-born musician whose songs, such as Check to Check and White Christmas, became part of the fabric of American life, died Friday night at his home in Manhattan, just a few miles from the I-owcr Hast Side tenement he lived in when he wrote the first of his 1,500 songs. He was 101 years old. A son-in-law, Alton E.

Peters, said Berlin died in his sleep at his town house on Bcckman Place. Berlin set the tone and the tempo for the tunes America played and sang and danced to for much of the 20th century. By the time he was 30, he was a legend, and he went on to write the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films. The musical giant, who never learned to read or write music, composed his first major hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band, in 1911. The last Berlin song to be noted by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers was An Old-Fashioned Wedding, the show-stopper he wrote for a 1966 revival of Annie Get Your Gun.

In the intervening 55 years, Berlin's outpouring of songs included Blue Skies; Put tin' On the A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody; Easter Parade; God Bless America; Heat Wave; White Christmas; Check to Check; This Is. the Army, Mr. Jones; Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning and There's No Business Like Show Business. Not only did he compose the melodies, he also wrote the lyrics. And, businessman that he was, he established the Irving Berlin Music Corp.

in 1919 to publish his works Sec IRVING BERLIN, page A 5 Co-pilot made error before NY jet crash By Larry MpShane The Associated Press NEW YORK The co-pilot of. the USAir jet that crashed into the Fast River, killing two people, inadvertently pushed a button that caused the Boeing 737-400 to decelerate, federal officials said Friday after interviewing the cockpit crew. The plane began to veer to the left and the pilot, feeling a vibration, then aborted the takeoff, said James Kohlstad, acting administrator of the National Transportation Safety Board. Kohlstad did not specify a precise cause for Wednesday's crash. "He initiated the abort because of the drift," Kohlstad quoted the pilot HUGO'S DAMAGE Hurricane Hugo, a storm larger than the roared ashore near Charleston.

Neighbors unite in rescue drama preensboro NORTH CAROLINA oAsheville Charlotte: Winds up to 90 mph, 65 of city without power 0Greenville jJV Union County: Baby killed by falling tree SOUTH state of South Carolina, ni Nags mHoad Raleigh Cape naneras Charleston: 135 mph winds, 30 major buildings collapsed, many houses destroyed, electrical power out to entire city utilities. The storm caused millions of dollars' worth of damage to the city, and an army of state, county and local police and city workers were busy See BUILDINGS, pagcA2 i lirMorohead TTWIImlnoton r-iT Atlantic Octan Jff I Georgetown: I JIT Roof torn ott school I By Doug Struck The Baltimore Sun CHARLESTON, S.C. The house looked like a club sandwich: Its roof, second floor and ground floor had collapsed in a neat stack, squeezing the furniture between their layers. Underneath was a man. He was asking for help.

Sheila Mack, 32, was the first one to hear him. She was on her balcony, trying to fix the shutters against the hurricane's growing force. "It was like a clap," she said, demonstrating. "We turned around, and his house was gone, and it was in the yard, and the tree had uprooted." The huge old elm behind Arthur McCloud's home had surrendered to assault by the wind. As it toppled, it apparently clipped the corner of the Myrtle Be Columbia: Man killed nearby by falling tree GEORGIA SOmllns low-lying coastal city were damaged by winds or high water.

President Bush declared seven counties of South Carolina a disaster area, making it eligible for federal loans for rebuilding and restoring Savannah ,) Boats anchored near Charleston, S.C., Historic city turned into little Venice' By Sarah Sturmon Scripps-Howard CHARLESTON, SC. "Wcl- come to little Venice." That was how Billy Storcn greeted visitors Friday morning at his home in Charleston's historic district. Storcn, who spent the night inland with his parents, came home Friday to find 18 inches of water in his home, which he could reach only by using a rowboat. Under sunny skies and stiff winds, the South Carolina National Guard moved into Charleston on Friday as it bailed out from the aftermath of one of the worst hurricanes to hit the southern Atlantic Coast in 30 years. More than 30 downtown buildings were leveled by Hurricane Hugo, and countless homes throughout the Michael Martin The USAir captain is not required by law to submit to blood and urine tests for drugs and alcohol.

as saying. Investigators also learned from interviews with pilot Michael Martin and co-pilot Constantine Kleissaf that Klcissaf was at the controls of the plane just moments before the crash. In addition, required procedures in the cockpit were not followed by the weary cockpit crew, which had been on duty for more than nine hours in the face of numerous flight delays. "There was clearly a lack of proper procedures in the cockpit," Kohlstad Sec CO-PILOT, page A 10 is i -A King Day made law by Mofford Governor says state did the right thing' By Don Harris The Arizona Republic III an emotion-charged ceremony Friday, Gov. Rose Mofford signed into law a paid holiday for the Rev.

Martin Luther King apparently signaling the end of a two-year economic boycott of Arizona that has cost the state an estimated $256 million in lost revenue. Hundreds of King supporters from around the state, including former Gov. Bruce Babbitt, gathered in the Senators still stuck on prison expansion By Steve Yozwiak and Ed Foster The Arizona Republic Senate Republicans remained deadlocked late Friday over the passage of a emergency prison-expansion program. The impasse over a solution to the state's prison overcrowding centered on GOP objections to adding inmates to the state's Pcrryvillc prison. Angry and bitter Senate Republicans threatened to shut down this week's three-day special session and leave the Legislature embarrassed that the one issue that could best fit the definition of a crisis remained unresolved.

As of Friday, there were 12,892 convicts packed into facilities designed to hold 12,280, with an additional 242 inmates in hospitals and county jails. The other issues Democratic Gov. Rose Mofford asked lawmakers to tackle this week drug-enforcement funds, economic incentives to lure jobs in the financial and computer-chip industries, and a paid holiday for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had passed handily by Friday despite predictions early in the week that any or all might fail.

But the prison-expansion plan, the centerpiece of the session, remained in limbo late Friday in the Senate Republican caucus, where nine of the Sec COP, pagcA9 J) 1 I i i i i 1, III I 1J if yjj' Inside HOLIDAY RICHES: Businesses welcome King Day, B3 shadow of the old Capitol as Mofford signed the measure, designating the third Monday in January as King Day. "Today, wc can all stand tall in the knowledge that wc have done INDEX: Astrology G5 Business B3 Calendar F3 Classified E1.G4 Comics F7, E32 Dear Abby G5 Editorial A24 Life Leisure Fl Movies F4 Obituaries G3 Puzzles G5 Religion Gl Sports CI Television F6 Arms-test accord U.S. and Soviet negotiators agree to permit on-site inspection of each other's underground nuclear tests, apparently ending a 1 5-ycar deadlock. A14. Today's prayer: Lord, thank you for new beginnings a new day, a new season.

Amen. Today's chuckle: Some folks think marriage gives you a new leash on life. Today's weather: Sunny, with some gusty winds. High 104, low 76. Friday: high 109, low 71; humidity, 'high 42 percent, low 1 1 percent.

A26. Wcalhcrlinc 957-8700 the right thing," Mofford said as she signed the bill into law shortly after 6 p.m. Babbitt said before the ceremony that he hopes "this will earmark the end of all that dissension, discord and disarray at the state Capitol and will be the beginning, if you will, of a new start." It was Babbitt who, by executive order, created a paid King holiday in 1986, only to See MOFFORD, pageA9 David PetkiewiczThe Arizona Republic Democratic state Sen. Carolyn Walker joins Gov. Rose Mofford in celebrating the signing of the King-holiday measure..