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OCTOBER 10. 1 BBS lac AC AN FORD MAZDA TOYOTA Texas' oldest newspaper .25 Daily, .75 Sunday Causeway toll at flaW A 7 By PANDORA RYAN News Staff Writer GALVESTON Seven people remained hospitalized Saturday with injuries suffered in an accident that killed two persons when a car forced a school bus off the causeway late Friday. Ball High students and chaperones were returning from a football victory in League City Friday when a black Pontiac Trans Am sideswiped their bus, sending it through the causeway railing and onto northbound lanes 20 feet below Witnesses said the car, traveling in excess of 75 mph, slid under the bus, shearing off the car's top, then fell more than 60 feet into Galveston Bay. Coast Guard rescue teams pulled the vehicle from the water three hours later and the driver 25-year-old Elvis Montemayor of 1405 Marine Dr. in Galveston, was pronounced dead.

One student, 14-year-old Condition of Injured persons reported, Page 2A. Josephine Temple, also was pronounced dead at the scene. The remaining 40 passengers were treated at local hospitals; 36 were transported directly to John Sealy's emergency room in Galveston. Galveston Police Capt. Leon Lewis, who was sitting on the front seat of the bus, had just radioed for a police escort into the city when the accident occurred around 11 p.m.

"1 heard a screeching of brakes and then there was a crash," Lewis said Saturday. "The bus started to fishtail, and I jumped up and went toward the driver (54-year-old Marlene Canton! because I could see she was losing control of the bus." Lewis said the bus was approaching the railing head-on as he attempted to gain control of the bus. "We hit the rail and the bus jumped up and went into orbit. It seemed like an eternity in slow motion that we were just suspended in the air." He said the bus then sailed 15 feet over the water between the sections of the causeway before nose-diving onto the concrete of the northbound lanes. According to Department of Public Safety Trooper Tom McCoy, the guardrail's impact separated the bus body from its frame, sending it into the air and over the water.

He said the "spring action" of the separation prevented more damage to the bus. Lewis and booster club member Eugene Scott crawied over the pinned bus driver through the torn-open cab of the bus. Lewis See WRECK Page 2A ER capabilities tested SUffPboto By BUI Barry Dangling guardrail marks spot where vehicles plunged off causeway By PANDORA RYAN News Staff Writer GALVESTON A "crush of parents" flooded John Sealy's emergency room Friday night, hoping to hear that their children were not among the 40 injured in a grinding crash which claimed two lives. Emergency Room Director Dr. Michael Warren said the 36 victims who arrived at the hospital's doors shortly after midnight constituted the largest single group ever treated there.

More than a dozen surgeons were called to reinforce the facility's usual staff of six, and twice that many arrived voluntarily, he said. "This was a true test of our capabilities in an emergency situation," Warren said. "You never know if you're prepared for something like this, but the entire staff was magnificent a truly remarkable group." Warren said emergency room administrators identified "the patients as quickly as possible, then notified the anxious parents in the outer waiting room. "You would expect a great deal of emotion, panic and moaning and groaning," he said of the young patients, "but we didn't have any of that. The students were absolutely wonderful the way they handled it all." By early Saturday morning, John Sealy physicians had treated and released more than 30 people; seven were admitted with more extensive injuries.

Warren said the community support witnessed by the hospital surpassed any he had ever seen. Firefighters, nurses and citizens bombarded the hospital with offers of help, and Galveston's McDonald's came with food and coffee for everyone. "We had so many people in Weather AREA FORECAST Scattered thundershowers ending today. Clearing and cooler tonight. Fair and mild Monday.

Highs today and Monday low 80s. Low tonight in the 60s. Wind northwesterly 10 to 15 mph. Probability of ram 20 percent today. GALVESTON BAY Northwest winds 10 to 15 knots today.

Bay waters subsiding. BEACH WATER 79 degrees More Weather Page 20A Index Bridie Brieo Bauetfa Board (Newt 11B DecrAbby no Local Sceae Of Special Interest Sports TeusOotdoon TVUsOnfi 14-1CA 10B ISA 11B 28 IB 1A l-SC t-7C Want Adi IA 12-ltC 7-MB Passing Parade The Friend, of the Rosenberg Library will present Nifti NtcotoQ of Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England at 4 p.m. today in Rosenberg Library's Wortham Auditorium. Nicolson will present a slide program on The English Country House. Cathy Caatffla wants to thank the fireman who got the cat out of the tree Wednesday.

GHP is looking for odd tea cups and saucers, dessert plates and tea pots for Clara Peggotty's Tea Room at Dtckew's Evenlnf on The Strand. Also, ethnic groups and organizations that would like to help recreate a portside area should call GHF Events at 765-7834. Carl Sfcem will conducting a Ballet and Jazz Workshop from 2-4 p.m. today at 2020 Postoffke. For information, call 762-8551 or 744-9504.

Unemployment in Gtlveston will be discussed at a tf Women Voters Public Forum Tuesday evening at Rosenberg Library. Our Birthday Kids for today See PASSING PaftlA some cases just offering to help carry patients from one place to another at one time we even had too many." Galveston Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Wayne Blevins. who accompanied the group to the hospital, described the emotion of the injured students as "controlled shock." He said formal commendations were sure to come for Galveston police Capt. Leon Lewis and booster club member Eugene Scott, who ignored their broken bones to help injured students out of the wreckage on the causeway.

"We are all in their debt," Blevins said. "I'm sure they were responsible for manv lives' being saved." Blevins said the calm shown bv the students was-remarkable. "They bandied the whole ordeal See EMERGENCY Page 2A Trans Am was demolished hy force of crash; its driver died.