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Bill Rogers Owns 5-Shot British Open Lead; F-l The Home Newspaper Sunday, of the Calumet Region July 19, 1981 6 Sections 60 Cents. Die; How Tragedy Happened n. tyH-wr'mmvj niji.jujj iwaTf-j in mi v. 'A, to 6 4 crrk i CopjrtgM, Hyatt Regency Hotel following Emlet, who was visiting three friends from St. Louis who were hotel guests, said he was on the bottom walkway when it began to collapse.

"You could feel something was going on. We just ran off." Emlet said he felt a slight vibration before the accident. He said a couple was dancing near him, "just having a good time." "It happened so quickly. I just tried to get people off yanking them and pushing them. A lot of people wouldn't move.

I guess they 76th Year-No. 25 Ill A special picture report, an evening of tragedy, Page F-8; other pictures and stories, Page A-14. The Times Wire Services KANSAS CITY, today are theorizing vibrations set up by spectators swaying and toe-tappinmg to music below may have caused the collapse of two gaint walkways at Hyatt Hotel Friday killing 111 people. Another 188 persons were injured, many of them Officials said that engineers are probing the wreckage and looking at construction plans to help find the cause; There may have been faulty design of the building in the first place, or It may have been designed correctly but poorly constructed. One witness estimated 100 people were on the 75-yard-long second-floor walkway Friday Bight when another walkway crashed down from above, toppling both spans into a large crowd attending a popular weekly -Tcfl Dsncc Jim White, a city building administrator, said the walkways should have been capable of handling normal traffic, "but maybe not all the people standing there and dancing." Carolyn Meyer said she was on the second-floor walkway five minutes before it fell.

"It was packed. You couldn't even get up to the rail," she said, estimating 100 people were on i the span. The Kansas City woman denied reports that those on the walkway were dancing, saying it was far too crowded. Hotel officials refused to say how many people the walkways were designed to support. Corporate president Pat Foley said he had been assured they could handle large crowds.

"We do not know the cause of the tragedy," Jim Howard, a hotel vice president, said in a letter to Gov. Christopher Bond. "However, as managers of the property, we do know that the structural integrity and safety of the building had been assured by the architects, the building contractor and his subcontractor Rescue workers hunt for victims in the wreckage of the 1981, The Times the collapse of two walkways. were froze or something. It happened in about five seconds.

"Afterward, it was so quiet Then, all of a sudden people started screaming and looking for people." Emlet said his friends left Kansas City early Saturday, leaving behind clothes in their hotel room. He was awaiting news of a Kansas City friend, who he said was supposed to be in the hotel to attend a dance in the lobby. Emlet said he and his friends escaped through a rear exit. SHOWERY The rain expected today may provide some relief from the forecasted 80 degree temperatures and high humidity. There is a 70 percent chance ofshowers and thundershow-ers.

Tonight temperatures will dip into the upper 60s. Monday's forecast calls for partly sunny skies, conitued humidity and a high near 90. More temperatures and national weather map, Page A-14. Call Weatherline, 219-989-9600. Want Ads: 219-932-8200 (Hours: 8 a.m.

Circulation: 2 19-932-3 112 (Hours: 9 a.m. 7:30 p.m.) NewsSports: 219-932-3106 Other Calls: 219-932-3100 Traded: A-14 Wins Again: A-8 THE TIMES TODAY FBI Enters Probe of Jay Given Murder iion and Grace Trete oSf. Lous are yuclry to be alive. Minutes before the couple was about to watch the dance from one of the walkways that collapsed, she went to make a phone call and he went to get his pipe. The change In plans saved their lives.

and in subsequent building inspections." Mayor Richard Berkley began a City Council briefing Saturday with a moment of silence for victims, and said city records related to the hotel's construction would be made available. The hotel was bathed in light all night as some 1,000 volunteers, firefighters and medics used Iackhammers, blowtorches, three luge cranes and their bare hands to unsnarl the tangled wreckage. Above them was a third walkway a span that cracked when the (Continued Back Page This Section) are working on the investigation. Stiglich said the evidence tamper; ing constituted a federal civil rights violation, which justifies FBI involvement. The tampering involved the casing of a bullet casing.

A small hole was made where the firing pin hit the casing, in an apparent effort to block the shell from being matched to the murder weapon. Investigators believe the shell alteration was done while the cartridge was in East Chicago Police Lough, an Indiana State Police criminal analyst, said Friday at a seminar for prosecuting attorneys. Lake County Prosecutor Jack Crawford said there are indications organized crime is involved in the county's X-rated industries. They haven't warranted a prosecution, he said. Miss Lough addressed the Indiana's Prosecuting Attorneys Council year ago when a fire broke out that killed 84 people.

"Eventually, I guess I will get over it," he said of his feelings of the disasters. "But now they're just running together both of them." The Kansas City man said he escaped from the MGM fire with a minor concussion and was unhurt in Friday night's accident. As he spoke he gripped a yellow rosebud. "I met a girl yesterday. I asked her what her favorite flower, was.

She said a yellow rose. So I bought one this morning to remind myself of her." He said the unidentified girl died in the collapse. Police say that despite the tampering the shell still can be matched to the weapon from which it was fired. The disclosure of the federal involvement in the investigation came in a press release issued jointly by the East Chicago Police, Indiana State Police, Lake County Prosecutor's Office and the FBI. The release said the team approach to the investigation was (Continued BackPage This Section) federal indictment in Florida.

She also said the bookstore industry has been linked to an Ohio corporation. Miss Lough said state police investigators conclude there is only one distributor in the state. She said the distributor's trucks have been (Continued Back Page This Section) KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) As former guests carried luggage and belongings from the evacuated Hyatt Regency Hotel Saturday, a young man watched silently from his post on a concrete wall. "I don't think I'll ever go into another hotel In my life," he said.

"I saw 23 get killed last night. I saw one lady get crushed to death. The only way you could tell she was a lady was that she had a dress on. Greg Emlet, 23, says he is no stranger to tragedy. He said he was on the 20th floor of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, less than a custody, kept under double lock in an evidence room.

Because the tampering was done in a highly restricted area of the police station, investigators believe that Given's killer or someone working with the killer is a police officer or someone with close police ties. The tampering apparently was done sometime between the time of the shooting at 11:14 p.m. on May 15 and about one week later when evidence was sent to the FBI crime lab in Washington. semi-annual conference at the Mer-rillville Holiday Inn to highlight the state's efforts in obscenity areas. She said 50 X-rated bookstores and theaters have been identified in 10 major cities.

Through the investigation, Miss Lough said state police have linked the X-rated movie industry to a Michigan crime figure. She said he is "insulated" now because he's under a By RONALD RAPOSA Times Staff Writer EAST CHICAGO The FBI has entered the Jay Given murder case. Federal assistance was requested by Police Chief Stephen Stiglich because some evidence in the killing of the former city attorney was altered while in East Chicago Police custody. The FBI began working with state and city detectives about two weeks ago. Sgt.

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The state's six-month look into pornographic industries shows half of Indiana's operations are linked to jmajor organized crime rings, Cathy I.