The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 247

Palm Beach Post-Times, Sunday, June 10, 1973-B5 FallS urvivor Tower Collapsed Like a Telescope SALE PRICES GOOD THRU MONDAY i l7tCZirAUlCMl mimc txj ioou. Kwi.m ma on wthi local OMOTMUCUM jomisotrs DADY TWIN PAK TOILET TISSUE RIGHT GUARD DEODORANT TRAC II RAZOR SEVEN OUNCE BRONZE CAN, IIMIT ONE Lv' P01VDER 1 ASSORTED COtORS. ECKERD BRAND, REG. 31c EACH, LIMIT 4 14 OUNCE PLASTIC SHAKER, LIMIT ONE OKLAN1X) dil'II From down below he heard the danger cry "Headache, headache" and for Gary Hobby the sky was falling. A giant television tower taller than the Kmpire State Building or the Eiffel Tower was trembling and buckling, snapping its three-inch guy wires like mere ropes.

Hobby and two other riggers were 40 feet above the ground where they were installing a coaxial cable on the 1.484-toot spire. Only Hobby survived when the tower fell "like a telescope folding up" noon Friday. rom his bed at Florida Hospital, Eugene (Jairelt Hobby, a 21-year-old graduate of keon High School in Tallahassee, tried to re-Jhember how he escaped being crushed to fleath. He was knocked unconscious and has a Sad cut over his right eye, along with some Siller cuts and bruises, but doctors say his widition is satisfactory. I "The first thing I knew someone was yelling Hobby said.

"That's our word for someone on the ground to take off something is falling. "It happened so fast I couldn't really see what exactly did happen. It just snapped off. Sll of a sudden a big section caine shooting by pie like a railroad train. "I just grabbed hold -a piece of that tower and hung on.

It was like the sky coming down J- a heavy rain falling." Somehow Hobby managed to jump clear 2)f the falling steel and flailing cables. "It Jyas just like riding down a pine tree." he aid. "You just spring away." Mark Saunders of Tallahassee was on the ground supervising his tower maintenance irew. He watched as his brother, Tomrnie. J9, was crushed to death under tons of steel.

Also killed in the fall was W. Dennis Miller. 34. of Tallahassee. "I watched it come down, and I knew which way it would fall, so I stayed where I was." Saunders said.

Near Saunders on the ground was another workman. Mike Diamond of Tallahassee, who bolted and ran through a field of tall grass and leaped a barbed wire fence to get out of the way. T. Sherman Penny, an engineer for WDBO-TV, was slightly injured when part of the tower crashed atop the station's transmitter building. Inside another small building at the base of the tower was Randv Scott, a disc jockey for radio station WDIZ.

"It was like being inside a earthquake," said Scott, who was not hurt. The cause of the collapse of the $500,000 tower, which was shared by several TV and radio stations, remained a mystery yesterday. Saunders, who owns Tower Maintenance Company of Florida, a contract firm based in Miccosukee. speculated it possibly was "under heavy stress" and overloaded with too many antennas. The three-sided structure, 10 feet wide, was built to withstand 150-m h.

winds four years ago. The tallest structure in Florida, it had an elevator which often carried photographers and sightseers to within 6 feet of the top. Television station WFTV (Channel 91 was knocked off the air and it may take several weeks for the station to resume broadcasts. WDBO-TV (Channel 6) switched to an older tower and went back on the air with a weaker signal. Kadio stations WDBO-FM and WDIZ-FM are also temporarily off the air.

Saunders and his crew had been working on the tower since morning installing cables and antenna for WMFE-TV (Channel 24.) a public broadcasting station. Hobby said he often climbs to 500-600 feet on a tower and admits it's not the easiest way to earn $2.75 an hour. "Sure. I get scared many times." he said. "But this was something I sure wasn't expecting to happen." Hobby said Saunders told him.

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Highs mostly in the low 90s. 17 Partly cloudy through Monday with a chance of thundershowers. Lows in the low to mid-70s. Highs in the mid-80s to around 90. I 20 22 Partly cloudy through Monday with a chance of showers or thun-: dershowers.

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Variable mostly south and southeast i winds 10 m.p.h. locally gusty i in thundershowers. i Rain probability 40 per i cent today and 20 per cent i tonight. 23 Partly cloudy through Monday with a slight chance of showers. Lows near 80 I and highs in the upper 80s.

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Area Data Temperatures recorded for 24 hours ending at midnight yesterday at Palm Beach International Airport: 90; low 79. Humidity 72 per cent. Barometer: 30.09 inches. Wind: high 17 m.p.h. to low 6 m.p.h.

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