Page 6-Wednesday, May 21, 1980-The Michigan Daily WATER TRAPPED BY MUD A VANCOU warned 50 cities yest trapped by ting Moun cascading time. "It's goi Crandell, Geological THE TH ditional ca giant erupt a confirme another 98 The mis Volcano could cause flooding From APand UPI Mud and debris from the convulsion vices said, "There's maybe some much smaller volumes than the two JVER, Wash. - Geologists that blew 1,300 feet off the top of Mount leaving, but no big movement of days before. ,000 residents of two small St. Helens formed a dam at the outlet of people." "There will be intermittent spouting erday that a lake of water Spirit Lake, trapping two square miles COWLITZ COUNTY Sheriff Les for days or weeks in my opinion," he mud and debris from erup- of water 200 feet deep. Nelson said any point in Kelso and added. it St. Helens could come CRANDELL SAID a spill over the Longview is within two miles of high Rescuers in 15 helicopters carried 123 down the mountain at any dam on the volcano's north side was ground, so people should be able to flee people out of the immediate area of the "imminent" and a wall of water could to safety with relative ease. volcano Sunday after the blast, said ng to happen," said Dwight be released down the Toutle River, Nelson said an evacuation urged Ben Dew, state emergency services a geologist for the U.S. threatening Interstate 5 and Kelso and Monday night for parts of Castle Rock, spokesman. He said that on Monday 15 Survey. Longview, 40 miles away. Toutle, Lexington, and Silver Lake was people were rescued and that the REAT raised fears of ad- The water will move at 30 mph, precautionary but not mandatory. helicopters went back Tuesday on "an sualties from the volcano's giving people time to flee, he said. AS FOR MORE eruptions from the organized, gridded search" for more ion Sunday, which so far has Mud flows could go all the way to the volcano, Crandell said, "There is no in- survivors. ed death toll of eight with Cowlitz River, he added. dication that another eruption is im- The fine, abrasive ash, ranging up to people reported missing. .However, no evacuations of the two minent. sing figure was up cities were ordered and a spokeswoman Crandell said the volcano vented sven incdes de intomeb ars f th it t E r n t dh td disabled hundreds of automobiles. dramatically following a new survey by authorities. "You're talking about a very large volume of water; an additional volume approaching 300 million cubic meters," said Crandell. "Our primary concern is what will happen when this water spills over the dam, which is very loose and unstable. We could have mud-flows into the valley as large or larger than Sunday." FOREST FIRES that have consumed 50,000 acres burned unchecked through the wilderness around the volcano. An awesome cloud of powdery ash released by Sunday's explosive erup- tion had drifted across the Mississippi River into the eastern United States by yesterday, disrupting travel in several states along the way. our teowiL z%,uniy mirecy - i m ore steam ana as yseapuin A MASSIVE LOGJAM blocks the Toutle River about 25 miles from Mount St. Helens yesterday. Flash floods and mud- slides have caused debris to back up in the river after violent eruptions shook the volcano. THERE'S A REASON NURSES GET MORE RESPONSIBILITY IN THE NAVY. THEY'RE NAVY OFFICERS. On one side of her collar is the symbol of the Nurse Corps. On the other is the insignia of a Navy officer. It makes a difference. Navy nurses are responsible not only for the care of their patients, but for the training and supervision of hospital corpsmen and other clinical and administrative personnel. 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Today marks the end of the first mon- In a commentary on Carter's th of the ragtag sealift run by Cuban proposal, it said American officials had exiles that has so far brought nearly "distributed applications in Florida to 65,000 refugees to freedom in the United calm the people by offering to allow States since the operation began April relatives to travel to the United States 21. Yesterday, 2,790 refugees had by other routes. Hut these routes are arrived by midday aboard 45 boats. not in existence, and it does not look THE COAST Guard reported almost probable that such travel will be 250 boats were on their way to Key possible. West. Officers also said eight vessels, in "The technical operation in this open defiance of the president's order regard is more difficult than reaching to stop going to Cuba,had slipped the moon because here in the Caribbean through the Coast Guard "double the matter is more difficult to barrier patrol" and were headed for the mthe s d Cuban Dort of Mriel. 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