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Tyler Morning Telegraph WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1989 Sect (Ciraime Mapse Chillis 5 ing 21 victims, four in serious condition. Most of the rest had minor injuries. Swinerton Walberg Co. of San Francisco, the general contractor on the job, said the crane was being repositioned from the 16th story to the 20th story, the second such repositioning of the project. The crane, model No.

SN355 manufactured by American Pecco of Millwood, N.Y., had a capacity of 17 tons. The site was last inspected by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Aug. 11. The project, which began in January, has not been cited for safety violations, the company said in a news release. Debris rained down on a taxi driven by Issa Massarweh, who had two passengers at the time.

The cab's back window was smashed. "I don't know where my passengers are," he said. "I threw myself under the dashboard." He told his passengers to duck and when he next looked, they had left. He was unharmed. "I heard a loud bang and stepped up and saw the tail end of a crane," said stockbroker Don Trabert, who saw the accident from his office in the Bank of America Building.

"It sounded like a Chinese New Year, only twice as loud. The crane was swinging and dangling in the air and people were scrambling away from the scene." A small fire broke out but was quickly extinguished. In 1988-89, the construction site yielded close to 1 million artifacts dating to a Chinese settlement in the 1800s. -UPI CAR, TAXI LAY CRUSHED TUESDAY UNDER PART OF HUGE COLLAPSED CRANE San Francisco Construction Accident Fatal To 21 Injured, 5 Remain Missing 1 1 i SAN FRANCISCO (AP) A crane tipped over and plummeted from the 16th story of a building under construction Tuesday, flattening a school van, crushing several cars and smashing into an office building across the street. At least five people were killed, 21 injured and five left missing, authorities said.

Concrete and twisted steel rained on one of the busiest intersections in the financial district. There were conflicting statements on what was happening before the crane fell. Fire Chief Fred Postel said it was hoisting steel beams, but the general contractor said the crane -was being repositioned from the 16th. to the 20th floors. "It felt like an earthquake," said Merrill Lynch Vice President Joe McLaughlin, who was in the damaged office building.

"I looked out and saw two bodies. One construction worker's boots were sticking up through a mass of jagged metal." A piece of the crane at least three stories long dangled from the side of the building under construction two hours after the 8:30 a.m. accident. Police roped off the area and ambulances rushed in and out. The street was littered with flattened cars and a mangled motor-cyle.

Gas was cut off to the damaged 21-story office building for fear of an explosion. "The wreckage looks absolutely incredible steel beams look like pickup sticks," said Acting Mayor Angela Alioto, sitting in while Mayor Art Agnos tours the country urging tourists to return in the wake of the Oct. 17 earthquake. At an afternoon news conference at the scene, Alioto said experts could not immediately determine the cause of the collapse. She also said streets in a four-square-block area would be closed for at least a week for cleanup and repairs, and the California Street cable car also was shut down.

Alioto said the dead were four construction workers, all from the Seattle area, and the woman driving the school van, operated by Laidlaw Transit Inc. "It's pretty rough," said Laidlaw Senior Vice President Howard Wal-lack. "They (other employees) are pretty upset," and we are arranging a chaplain and psychologist to go over to our off ices." The fire chief said five people were listed as missing in the twisted steel and broken concrete. Three hospitals reported receiv HICKORY FARMS GIFT CENTER OPEN NOW AT BROADWAY SQUARE HICKORY WKM5 GIFT CENTER 1 Two Graffiti Artists Killed NEW YORK (UPI) Two teenage graffiti artists who were apparently spray painting the inside of a Manhattan subway tunnel were struck and killed early Tuesday by a train, authorities said. The two youths were in a stretch of tunnel 50 feet south of the Columbus Circle station, where there was no clearance or room for them to escape from the oncoming train, said transit police Lt.

Michael McCaw. They were struck by a northbound train at 12:41 a.m., and were dead when train conductors and transit police found them a short time later, McCaw said. Three cans of spray paint and a baseball cap were found near where the youths were hit and fresh gray paint was on the wall of the tunnel, said Sgt. Robert Valentino, a transit police spokesman. "The indication is that the paint was wet and the indication is they were doing graffiti," Valentino said.

"Why they didn't hear the train, we just don't know." One of the youths was identified as Rubin Fernandez, 17, Brooklyn, Valentino said. Authorities have been unable to identify the second teenager, who they believe was about 18, because he was not carrying identity papers and his body was severely mangled. THICK THIN? Bring your prescription to Ragsdale Martin Optical. We can make any prescription thinner, lighter and more comfortable with the new Litestyle lenses. Delicious food gifts from around the world.

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