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Trees cracking and people running around and screaming and hollering," she said. I don't ever want to see anything else like that in my life." Clarence Chappell, 70, perished when a wall fell on him. 1 Nichols said he went outside to the middle of the road and found a little girl who apparently had been hurled from her house. Kimberly Pettway, 5, was carried from the rubble by neighbors on a makeshift litter made from someone's door. She was hospitalized with a head injury and was reported in stable condition.

May Gordon, 74, of Selma, awoke in a daze in the middle of the road with an apparent broken back and asking why "someone was beating her and thowing water on her," said her neice, Renee Blackwell. She was in stable condition. The roof of a Selma University dormitory was blown off and three students were slightly injured. The storm hit as Alabama was recovering from earlier tornadoes and floods that had claimed four lives. The sun came up in Selma to reveal roofs crumpled like tin foil, furnishings scattered across lawns and trees coated with hunks of The Associated Press A double plague of tornadoes and floods ripped the Deep South on Tuesday, killing one person, tearing houses from their foundations, flinging sleeping people into the streets and reducing barns to mat-chsticks.

Scattered snowstorms, meanwhile, churned over the Plains and into the East and threatened to coat countless roads anew with ice and snow. A new, big chill turned the eastern Rockies into an icebox, with temperatures dipping to a bone-numbing 31 below in Colorado. The twisters leveled whole sections of Selma, where a housing project and college dormitory were smashed, and LaPlace, where 100 people were left homeless. The fury was unleashed in the darkness before dawn when nearly everyone was indoors, and some dazed, nearly naked residents stumbled outside in the chilly aftermath screaming for missing children. The number of deaths stood at one and injuries at 15 in Selma, where 12 trailers, four houses and 40 to 50 new cars at a dealer lot were destroyed.

In LaPlace, 126 houses were damaged or destroyed and 24 people were injured, two of them children who were listed in critical cond-tion. For D.C. Nichols of Selma, the terror began after he got up to follow the weather bulletins and "the lights went off and we heard roaring. I said, 'My God, it's going Firefighters at the Hi-Port Industries chemical plant at Highland, Texas, about Chemical 20 east of Houston, continue Tuesday to pour water on a chemical fire that broke out Monday night. The fire and platlt IPC resultant explosions routed 2,000 nearby residents.

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"The fire started in a building, it looked like, and started moving toward our house. Then the wind shifted, and it looked like it was moving back toward the storage tanks. At first you could see 75 gallon cans shooting into the air and being blown away. "I'd like to go back and see if my house is still there, but they won't let me," he said. Many other residents who left their homes in the bommunity 20 miles east of Houston parked on streets outside the evacuation area and sat on their car hoods, eating, drinking and watching the flames.

Department of Public Safety Sgt. Rick Rose estimated 2,000 residents within two miles of the plant followed police advice to leave the area because of the toxic fumes the blaze was releasing. Rose said authorities did not know how' many tanks in the plant were involved in the blaze or what ley contained. "We don't know what's burning, how much is burning and won't know until we get that thing out and can get in there," Rose said. HIGHLANDS, Texas (AP) Firefighters poured foam on a burning chemical plant Tuesday after a series of blasts touched off an inferno that raged out of control for 3'2 buckling storage tanks and prompting 2,000 nearby residents to flee.

Five firefighters and two police suffered minor injuries, but the five workers on duty in the Hi-Port Industries plant -escaped when the explosions began about 7:30 p.m. Monday, said Harris County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Macaluso. The clause of the explosion and fire was unknown, authorities, said. Evacuated residents began returning home early today, officials said. Electricity, turned off during the height of the fire, was restored and schools opened on schedule.

The company estimated damage at $15 million, said Joe Dollar, spokesman for Hi-Port Industries. The inferno burned about seven acres of the 34-acre plant where jet fuel, insecticide and anti freeze are made, Macaluso said. Investigators probably will not be able to inspect the damage for two days because of the intense heat, he said. Although firefighters were still pouring foam on the burning plant, the blaze was described as contained today. caps aEsraroanio RIVERSIDE, Calif.

(AP) A cerebral palsy victim who asked a hospital to allow her to starve to death is not trying to commit suicide, but merely expressing her preference for treatment, a doctor testified Tuesday. Dr. Laurens White, a University of California-San Francisco professor of clinical medicine who specializes in treatment of the terminally ill, classified Elizabeth Bouvia's case as "close, but not really suicide." "She is refusing to take food and drink and accepting the consequences," White said. He likened Ms. Bouvia's decision to a patient deciding not to accept kidney dialysis while knowing the consequence was death.

White had been called by attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union to testify at a court hearing in which Ms. Bouvia, 26, a quadriplegic, is trying to get a court injunction to keep staff at Riverside General Hospital from forcing food and medical help on her. White was the third person to testify during the weeklong hearing. Ms. Bouvia pleaded her own case on Monday.

i Under cross-examination by Deputy County Counsel Joyce Manulis Reikes, White said patients should be able to decide their own fates. "Patient's wishes in any treatment should be and are paramount and that's the cornerstone of medical ethics," White said. He said the only exception to that tenet was when a patient's rights infringed on someone else's rights or needs. He said it was possible Ms. Bouvia was infringing the rights of the hospital staff.

Suicide is illegal in California. "Ms. Bouvia's rights may hit someone else's First Amendment rights square between the eyes," White said. In testimony Monday, Ms. Bouvia, sitting in a wheelchair, told Superior Court Judge John Hews that her starvation wish was firm, but that she knew she might change her mind.

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