The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 13, 2000 - 7A lire rom cable car crash leaves 10 riders dead I APRUN, Austria (AP) - Relatives and friends who had waited through the night in this Alpine village began to get word yesterday on whether their loved ones were among the dead in a cable car fire that killed about 170 people in a mountain tunnel. With the village hall draped in black and candles urning on shop steps, shattered townsfolk gathered in the Kaprun church for Sunday Mass. As they mourned, emergency crews tried to reach the spot where scores of people, many children and teen-agers, were killed Satur- day by smoke and flames. "We understand Christ's wail on the cross: 'My God, -why have you forsaken me?" priest Peter Hofer said in his sermon. Others gave thanks after realizing their loved ones were safe. "My son is, thank God, all right," said Gottfried Nindl. His boy had planned to go on the cable car with is friends, but didn't because they had slept too late, he aid. The car, pulled on rails underground for most of the 3,200 yards up the Kitzsteinhorn mountain to a glacier region, stopped, blazing, about 600 yards inside a moun- tai tunnel Saturday morning. The cause of the fire has not been determined. Rescuers could not reach the victims as the fire raged on Passengers tried to flee through the deep tunnel, but most were felled by the thick smoke and flames. Eigh- teen people survived, mainly by fleeing downwards in e tunnel where the smoke was thinner, authorities said. It was still unclear how many people- were in the cable car, but it was believed that it had a capacity of 180 peo- ple and was full. The retrieval of the bodies was delayed by toxic fumes inside the tunnel and the need to secure the charred car. Chief firefighter Anton Brandauer said the tunnel was now almost smoke-free and that the retrieval of the bod- ies could begin. But as night rolled in, other officials said the accident site remained too dangerous, suggesting recovery efforts could be delayed until today. Once the remains of the victims are brought into town, authorities plan to set up a large tent in the town center where relatives and friends can say final farewells. From there, authorities planned to take the bodies to Salzburg for forensic examination. Authorities said yesterday they had identified 155 of the victims with near certainty. Among them were 52 Austrians, 42 Germans, 10 Japanese, eight Americans, two Slovenes and a Croat. The victims were identified by eliminating those who had returned alive from a list of 2,500 people who had taken the cable car up the slope before the fire. Three U.S. army personnel were confirmed among the dead. The Americans were part of a group of mostly military personnel from Wuerzburg, Germany, and their families, said Maj. Drew Stathis, a member of the group. Stathis said missing Americans from the group included a family of four with two children, couple and a man and his son. an engaged AP PHOTO Smoke billows out of a tunnel on the Kitzsteinhorn mountain in Kaprun, Austria, yesterday where a fire in a cable car killed at least 170 people, including eight Americans. NEEL Continued from Page 1A Tierney waited until after James V Neel's death to release the book. "I think that it's not an accident that they waited :until my father died. If he were alive, I believe he would have absolutely no difficulty in correcting all the errors," Neel said. Neel said knowing how dedicated his father was to his work has led him to believe Tierney's book is more fiction than fact. "As a family, it's very hard to read Mr. Tierney's altegations, knowing that (James V Neel) was a committed scientist that observed the highest moral andethical standards," Neel said. "The evidence is overwhelming that this is much closer to a hoax." Last Thursday, Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, released a statement ying many of the points made by Tierney are not esearched well and that the author contradicts some of his points within the book itself. Alberts said the Edmonston B vaccine was deemed safe and while it has been administered to 18 million infants, only three have died. Alberts also said while some members of the Yanomami tribe reacted to the vaccine with a fever, none died as a result of the vaccine. "Given all of the foregoing, Mr. Tierney's misuse of source material and the factual errors and innuen- does in his book do a grave disservice to a great sci- entist and to science itself," Alberts said. On Oct. 12, the National Book Foundation announced "Darkness in El Dorado" was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award. In response to the announcement, University Vice President of Research Fawwaz Ulaby wrote a letter to the foundation asking them to conduct a fair review of the book before bestowing it with the award. "A number of distinguished scholars made it clear that the excerpt had significant errors of fact and that it improperly characterized the activities" of Neel and Chagnon, Ulaby wrote. "We were seriously concerned about the allega- tions in the article and evidently in the book. We conducted an internal investigation and believe the allegations are false," he continued. In a letter written to Time Magazine dated Sept. 29, Chagnon said he was appalled by all claims in Tierney's book. "Their assertion that James V. Neel, I, and oth- ers of our research team deliberately infected the Yanomami Indians with measles in 1968 to docu- ment how many would di-e is nothing short of heinous,' Chagnon wrote. Neel's son said he and his family are grateful for the support they have received since the alle- gations surfaced. "As a family, we were heartened by the tremen- dous support on the part of the University, the Acad- emy and numerous other societies and individuals all over the world," he said. VETERANS Continued from Page 1A "It's good for students to walk by and see this," said LSA senior Josh Schore, referring to the vigil. Members of the Air Force, the Army and the Navy took part in an event at the Veterans Hospital, where U.S. Rep. Lynn Rivers (D- Ann Arbor) spoke to veterans. Members of the three divisiis of the military were able to in'teract with women and men who defeinded the United States in World War 11, the Vietnam War and the Korean War. "It's a reminder that freedom isn't free," Gaughan said. "Someone has to pay the price." _. ._... TRAVEL CONSULTANT Cow cil Travel seeks enthusiastic entry level ngultant. Ff/ only. Starting @ $19,000 + benefits. 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