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the Ohio River ina crush of
bodies that continued for 30

CINCINNATI (AP) — "IL
couldn't believe it, they

could see the people all piled minutes,

up and they still tried to Elght other persons were
mb over them just to get severely injured, pallce said.

In eho in hor rte’ 11 Twenty morewere treated at
roong died in A crushing four hospitals and released,

Poman wave surging into © The Monday night concert,

which drew an audience of
more than 18,000 people,
went on ag scheduled and

Staft said seven young men The Who made no mention of

and four young women were the tragedy during their
trampled and kitled when the performance.
mob pushed into the hall on “We decided fo let the can-

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Concert goers crushe

cert go on,” said Lieut. Dale
Menkause who led 25

licemen in a crowd-contro!
detail. "If we stopped It, we

would have had a worse

panic.”
Menkhaus estimated that
mere than 6,000 persons,

some who had walted more
than three hours, ‘were
crowded on the coliseum's
plaza level waiting for the

No causes found for
stock market faints

TORONTO (CP) — Cause
has yet to be found for a
mysterious ailment that
felled tradera on the floor of
the Toronto Stock Exchange
and forced the exchange to
close twice Monday.

The exchange was firet
closed about 11.90 a.m, EST
when odorless fumes filled
the trading floor and made
traders, as those preeent
said, ‘drop like flies."

Pearce Bunting, president
of the exchange, said six
traders were taken to
hospital in the morning.
About 400 people in the ex-
change building were
evacuated and the fire
department tested the air.

hen itappeared pate, the
market r a Mm.
but other’ traders nen
complained of illness and
one was taken to hospital.

“We suspect gas or fumes
drawn in through intakes to
ithe building,’ said John

n :
has been eliminated
(os a cauge).”

By noon, police cars,
ambulances and fire trucks
lined Bay Street outside the
bullding and the area was
closed to traffic.

Bunting sald the exchange
would open as usual today

because tests conducted by ©

the Ontario ministry of Jabor
found the building safe.

There was no serious loss
of income by investment
dealers from the incident,
Bunting said. And if the
exchange is forced to close
again, stocks could be traded
on other facilities.

The Toronto market is
Canada's largest, ac-
counting for ebout 55 per
cent of the volume of stocks
traded on all Canadian
markets and 81 per cent of
their value,

With trading hours cut to
2% from the usual six,
however, the volume of
shares traded on the ex-
change was the year’s
smallest :

Jim MacDonald, a trader
on the floor when the trouble
started, said a man near him
collapsed with what ap-
peared to be a heart attack,

“T called the ambulance
and then suddenly another
man fell and they began to

drop like flies around me,"

MacDonald said.

“Tt still shaking,” he
said. ''This is how Legion-
naire's disease all got

started,

John Ball, another floor
trader, said he was sure
there was something in the
air even though there was no
smell.

"Tt was really scary
because they were all young
people and they were
dropping like flies,” he said.
“They allseemed to have the
same symptoms — numb-
ness in the chest and com-
pletely incoherent in their
speech."

Bunting said one of those
taken to hospital was
released late in the afternoon
but doctors had found no
cause for the illness.

Rider said all seven vic-
tims had symptoms af
carbon monoxide poisoning,

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tingling fingers.

But Bunting said an
engineer from the labor
ministry found no toxic

amounts of carbon monoxide

. inthe building, nor of carbon -

dioxide, hydrogen sulphide,
natural gas or any other
harmful element.

The engineer pronounced
the building safe but follow-
up tests will be conducted,
Bunting said.

“The best opinion is this
problem wasa freak incident
related to outside air that
may have been drawn into
the air ducts of the ex-
change,’ he said, noting that
strong winds were blowing
through the day.

A hospital spokesman said
Monday that e five people
taken there were in Rood
condition but would be Kept
under observation.

Trade
surplus
higher

By JOHN FERGUSON
OTTAWA (CP) — A major

revision in trade figures.

shows the merchandise
trade surplus to date this
year is sharply higher than
originally estimated by
Statistics Canada, .

The federal agency today
revised upward the trade
surplus in every month this
year and reported the sur-
plus in the first nine months
was $2.38 billlon, up from
$1.55 billion estimated last
month,

Statistics Canada made
the adjustments after a
recent discovery that Irvin
Oil Ltd. of New Brunswic
had not reported exporla of

din rush |

doors to open. Many had

been drinking and smoking

marijuang.

As at some past rock con-
certs, some seats were re-
served, but about half were
available on a first-come
firstserved basis.

“The group likes to do 4
ua ae aa

. When the crow r
the music, tri ed forward.

“They opened only two
doors,” Menkhaus gaid.
“They have about 50. I
suggested they open more,
but was told there wasn't
enough personne] to gpen
more.”

Said usher Ray Sch-
wertman: “Firat a bottle
crashed through the glass.
Then they started pushing
more glass out and they
started pouring in. We
couldn't stop them."

Dick. Ogburn, a con-
certgoer from Lexington,
Ky., said: “People were
going down. I saw people's
heads being stepped on. I fell
and I couldn't get up. People
kept pushing me down. I was
afraid for my life.”

Menkhaus said it was
almost 30 minutes before hia.
men could mount a charge
Into the crowd. “We found

_ the first bodies about 15 feet

from the door outside,” he
said.
Dr. Al Trott, emergency
room supervisor at Cin-
cinnati General Hospital
said all victims 5 ered
“footprint-like injuries."
City Safety Director
Richard Caste said he
will ask the city council to
pass a law requiring that all
seats be reserved at future
events. “It’s the urgency of
getting a seat that makes
is happen,” he said.
The Who, amang the oldest
surviving’ British rock
groups, is featured in a
recently released film,
Quadrophenia, The four-
member group wrote the
rock opera Tommy, which
was made into a movie.

Jeff Chaney of Carlisle, an
army veteran, said he tried
to revive three of the vic-
Uma, Hie efforts jaiat
mostly “because je jus
didn’t seem to care”

“] eguldn’t believe it,”

NEWS BRIEFS

TORONTO (CP) — Quebec
is prepared to see the price
of Canadian oil rise to world
levels because its abundant
hydroelectric resources gi

“we consider it in
vevitable that the price of
hydrocarbons will go Up,
Bernard Landry, minister of
state for economic
development said in an in-
terview after addressing 4
meeting of the Canadian
Club,

“Tt is not wise to seek artl-
ficial protection because
some day it will have to end

High interest

OTTAWA (CP) — Walter
Gordon says high interest
rates and tight money are
not the way to fight inflation.

In fact, says the former
federal finance minister who
now is chairman of the
Canadian Institute of
Economic Planning, these

overnment and Bank of

anada manoeuvres are
doing ''a great deal of harm
to the economy.

Gordon's views were con-

and the awakening could be
brutal,” he' sald.

He said that although
rising fuel costs spell "bad
news" for Quebec, 68 they do
for other ollimporting
provinces, they also mean
“good news'’ for other
energy sources such a8
hydroelectric power.

The first phage P
James Bay project, when
completed in 1985, will add
12,000 megawatls of power to
the present » 15,000
megawatts. This represents
about 700,000 barrels of oll a
day, or half of Alberta’s
current production, in terme
of  thermally-generated
electrical energy. . .

said wrong .
tained in a statement
prepared for presentation
today to the Commons
finance committee. .
Saying that present
policies cannot succeed
because Canadian inflation
is not caused by an over-
heated economy, Gordon
suggests government finan
cial officials reduce their de-
pendence on monetary
measures to contain in-
flation.

Ford recall considered |

WASHINGTON (AP) —
The U.S. government said
Monday it may decide next
month whether to seek a
recall of about nine million
Ford Motor Co. vehicles with
automatic transmissions.

The National Highway
Traffic Safety Ad-
ministration said it is in-

yestigating 60 deaths, 1,100 ©

injuries and 3,700 accidents
that may have beeh caused
when transmissions slipped.
unexpectedly from park into
reverse, a

Involved in the in-
vestigation are all 1D70
through 1978 model Ford
cars and light trucks with the
automatic transmissions in
question. ?

The Centre for Auto
Safety, a Washington-based
consumer group, petitioned
the NHTSA to investigate the
possible defect more than
two years ago. But deapite

- exhaustive tests, ‘the agency
says it hag found no
. evidence of any safety flaw.

physical

Ay
Psd

No charges.agains ‘Gulf

NEW YORK (AP) — The
Times says the U.S. justice
department declined to press
felony charges against Gulf
Oil Corp. and eight other oil

the depdrétheni'allowed Gulf
to plead no contest to a mis-
demeanor and pay a
relatively small fine.

if convicted of a felony

petroleum products for more Chaney said. “They could companies for participating trust violation, a corporation
than a year. Other ad- see the people all piled up in a uranium price-fixing can be fined up to $1 million
justments were also made as and they still tried to climb scheme. and the — executives
a result of the revision. over them just to get in.” The newspaper also says $100,-000 each
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