Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 17, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free april 1978 9 four dead 30 injured in Accident ski Tram trip becomes Nightmare Squaw a it was the ski trams last trip of the Day Down the Mountain at Squaw and it was loaded with a then one of three thick cables popped off its roller and ripped through the killing four persons and injuring the other 30 a second Tram car on the same line was heading up the Mountain with 70 persons and piles of ski no one inside was but that car was left dangling hundreds of feet from the ground Dur ing a 10hour Rescue operation that lasted until Early sunday there were screams and moans and it was said Bruce Zim of san who was in the downward bound he said the car gave a sudden then there was the sound of ripping Metal As the heavy Cable Cut through the car and crushed sever al persons to the an official said one of the cars three cables had gone Slack and jumped off its just after 30footlong Tram began its descent from Emigrant from feet up the it went bouncing 50 to 70 feet Down the remaining then Slid rap idly downhill 100 feet More before it was halted by an emergency 70 feet above the at that the Loose Cable looped around the car and sliced through Bill director of the Squaw Valley ski he said the car looked like a shredded cause of the mishap was not the reef the persons on the Tram were killed and the fourth died in the arms of a Rescue worker As he tried to carry her to she died with me on the Way said the 22yearold Rescue Ken it really puts a Lump in your a photo a disabled Cable car is left hanging on a sagging Cable at Squaw Valley ski resort in working in 90 kilo metre an hour winds and driving had to scale Cable car then crawl Down the cables to reach the cars and set up chair like Pul Leys to Rescue the of the five were in fair condition at Washoe medical Centre in fifteen were treated and released by sunday afternoon at Tahoe Forest Hospital in the whereabouts of the other 10 injured was not when the Cable snapped on the car moving Down the the Tram car moving up the Mountain became stranded above a Steep slope Only 800 feet from its ground mothers had to coax fright ened children into the chair like Pulley device to get them to women and children were lowered and the men Drew lots to see who would go Down Soweto residents ignore election Johannesburg Reu Ter Soweto voters All but ignored a local election her Alding the White ruled governments new Fig ures released today Only six per cent of the segregated townships electorate voted to elect a new local about 000 of Soweto militant million residents were Eligi ble to cast the townships 17seat Council was to get wider executive Powers and advise the White authority which actually administers these people do not con Sider a vote in the same Way As we europeans said Soweto White who said he was satisfied with saturdays he denied Black militants claims that the Council would not com Mand popular the Sof Sonke the 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