St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 11

3 NOV 1 5 1931 Vy, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1991 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 5C 14 injured when RTA trains collide. POLICECOURTS 31 people killed by smoke in a London subway station. injured in subway The following incidents were among those that were reported to police departments in the St. Louis metropolitan area or that involved action in one of the area's courts: said Thursday. The exact cause of the blaze remained under investigation.

Authorities said the fire, at 5420 Geraldine Avenue, originated in a bedroom and apparently smoldered for a time before it broke out. Bbv a mm. mm waw ft 1 I I I 4I 1 I II II I I kl Wll I UUIUMI I 11 II A in aowniown Philadelphia. Badly maintained train traps 2,000 people underground for two hours in stifling heat. More delays on BART in Transbay Tube.

42 perish as Japanese trains crash. jfa I rain strikes line of reiqht cars and III II II IUSV. TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS St. Louis: The driver of a St. Louis Public Library van that collided with a Bi-State bus on Wednesday has been issued a summons for going through a red light.

The driver, James Settle, 29, of Fenton, remained in Barnes Hospital, where he was listed Thursday in serious condition. About 20 other people who had minor injuries were released after treatment at hospitals. f'Xi derails, injuring 30 Xk BART driver faces Tiring Train rammea street barrier. FIRES Black Jack: A fire that killed a man Wednesday afternoon apparently started with a cigarette in a trash can in his bedroom, police said Thursday. The victim was Rush Owens, 71.

Owens, who used a wheelchair, lived in the 4300 block of Varano Drive. His wife told investigators that he was smoking a cigarette in his room shortly before the fire broke out about noon Wednesday. An oxygen tank in Owens' bedroom may nave fueled the fire. St. Louis: A warehouse fire on Wednesday that caused the evacuation of businesses northeast of Hall Street and Adelaide Avenue burned itself out by Thursday afternoon.

Hall Street was reopened by 10 a.m. Thursday. Firefighters had been hampered because they were unable to use water on the magnesium that was burning in the warehouse. No foul play is suspected in a fire on, Wednesday in which a 5-month-old boy died, investigators go radii tea (So mm MXmm VIOLENT DEATHS St. Louis: Michael Whitfield, 27, of the 1 1 00 block of 1 1 th Street, has been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying on Sept.

27 of Joseph Cottner, 29, of the 2800 block of Texas Avenue. Cottner and a female companion went to the Peabody Public Housing complex at 3:30 a.m. to buy drugs, police said. Cottner was fatally shot; his companion was wounded. Whitfield also was charged with robbery, assault and armed criminal action.

rJ II 11 i DO ioM mm Gunmen Kill 3 In Robbery Of Armored Car Company YES, it can! That is why the Coalition for Safe Transit, a citizens protective group, is watching very closely the activities of Bi-State Development Agency in its construction of the Metro Link Light Rail System planned for the Metropolitan St. Louis area. Our concern is safety. Closely tied to safety are engineering and technology, which require strict adherence to bid specifications. This is the only practical way of controlling quality and standards which impact on safety.

Recently, Bi-State Development awarded a contract for the construction and train control system to a company which apparently did not comply with the specifications. This was done counter to advice given by Bi-State's engineering and design consultants. The signal and control system is the "brains" of mass transit. If an inferior or malfunctioning system is installed, the result could be tragic. The Coalition for Safe Transit is strongly supportive of fast transit.

However, we believe that Bi-State has violated its own bid specifications, compromised its integrity and created a situation where the people of metropolitan St. Louis may end up not only with an inferior system, but one that could be unsafe. Most state and federal agencies are controlled by laws or regulations which monitor the actions of public agencies like Bi-State. Unfortunately, this is not the case with Bi-State Development which claims that it is not subject to either Missouri or federal laws or regulations. It appears, in fact, that this public agency has no one over-seeing its actions.

That is why the Coalition for Safe Transit Is taking a strong interest in this situation. We want Bi-State Development Agency and every other public entity to be responsible and responsive to the public they are supposed to serve. We don't want to see people d'e! VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) Gunmen robbing tfte warehouse of an armored car company killed three workers before fleeing when other employees stumbled onto the holdup, an official said Thursday. The three workers were shot Wednesday night, police said.

Chief Jerry Galvin said: "I can say they were executed. They were defenseless at the time they were shot. You can conclude from that that they were bound? A special ieam of the state Justice Department! helped police comb the warehouse and surrounding area, and the also was called in to assist in the investigation. Investigators have determined that two or more gunmen were involved in the incfdent at the Loomis Armored Inc. warehouse, where drivers drop off money collected on their runs for deposit in banks, Galvin said.

Galvin said he couldn't say how much, if any, money had been taken. "Obviously, the motivation is the money," he said. Galvin said, "As to why the victims were executed, I can't even speculate on that sort of an atrocity." The robbery was interrupted when Iwo returning drivers saw an employee on the floor and money bags in the doorway. another truck pulled up, Galvin said. Through an open warehouse door, two drivers returning from a delivery saw an employee lying on the floor and money bags in the doorway.

They left the scene and called police, Galvin said. Galvin declined to release any other information provided by the witnesses, saying it could jeopardize the investigation. Loomis' officials declined to discuss the details of the company's day-today operation. The dead were identified as Dennis Jacobson, 29, of Vallejo; Alphonso Lontayo, 25, of Vallejo; and Martin McCumber, 49, of Fairfield, who died at the hospital. A Loomis truck was the target of robbers in Fresno in September, when two men fatally shot a guard as he delivered money.

SUPPORT A SAFE AND EFFICIE FAST TRANSIT SYSTEM ma Coalition for Safe Transit P.O. Box 11693 St. Louis, MO 63105 YES, I want to see faster and better transit for the area, but I am against compromising safety or undermining the integrity of the bidding process. Please add my name to your list of public-minded supporters. (No contribution is necessary to show your support of good government.) To help with the Coalition's work, in addition I would like to contribute the following: $10 $100 Other ooo COALITION FOR SAFE TRANSIT, INC.

P.O. BOX 11693 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI 63105 Name. Address City, State Zip. Phone Public Hearing Is Set On County Budget James J.

Eagan, Pres. William D. Tharp, Vice Pres. Kaye H. Stelnmetz, Sec.

County Executive George R. "Buzz" Westfall has proposed a budget for next year of $217.9 million, an increase of $4.5 million over this year's. Despite the increase, the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Highways and Traffic would suffer cuts of about $1.6 million. The St. Louis County Council has set aside Tuesday evening to hear from the public about next year's budget.

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