The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 5, 1985 Page: 1 of 20
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Explosions rock Mont Belvieu
THIS AERIAL photo was taken shortly after the explosion by free-
lance photographer Dave McAnaU Tuesday morning.
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FLAMES SOARED as high as *00 to 7W feet In the Warren Petroleum explosion Tuesday morning In
Moot Belvieu . < Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey
TWO WOMEN flee from the explosion that rocked Warren
Petroleum to Mont Belvieu Tuesday
Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey
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Onlookers tell horror
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MONT BELVIEU - Two
e\e*:tnesses recounted the twr
ror of the exploaiona that rocked
Mont Belvieu • Warren
Petroleum Tuesday morning
People were running run
rung for 'heir uvea said-
Salvador Cervantes of Anahuac
Cervantes an employee of
Richard Cain Contracts, Mid
he * as operating a cherry picker
when one of the explosions
erupted about ldo yards away
Some kind of gas covered the
ground and caught fire When it
did. it was like a fuse The fire
shot across the ground into the
plant and Boom ‘ it went up
Cervantes recounted
When the plant went up I
jumped down and ran to the
fence surrounding the plant I
weed over an I foot high> barb
ad wire fence to get out of there
I don't know hpw but I did. Or
vantes said
While. Cervantes escaped
unharmed he was fearfui that
his brother might not have been
ao fortunate
My brother was in there
working with a crew and I can t
find him anywhere He may be
OK. but I worry that he dkta t
get out said Cervantes,
Laurie Barnet! of Mont
Belvieu said she had stopped her
car for a red light on Highway
14* when the explosion erupted
about luijyardsawa.
• I was Just scared 1 ran the
red light Miss Barnett said
Miss Barnett, il said two
other motorists also went
through the red light when the
See ONLOOKERS, Pageg-A )
2 missing
after series
of blasts
By DONNA PURDY
MOST BELVIEU Efforts
were under w ay at noon Tuesday
to control a fire caused by a
series of explosions that rocked
"fMon t B e I v t e tr s - W a r r c n ■
Petroleum Salt Dome
Underground Storage Facility a
subsidiary of Chevron USA
Although no deaths were eon
firmed two men working at the
site were reported nrussing
The first explosion.- felt in
Baytown and as far away as
Anahuac was at 8 45 a m ac
cording to Clay Hooper public
relations manager for Chevron
A second explosion occurred
at about 8 55 a nri and another
■ gin <#*•: i ye « nutefc later
A pipeline containing a mu
turn of ethylene and propane to
the terminal ruptured, while
mu ntenance work was being
done on the line Hooper said
The explosion and init ial ftres
were to the storage terminal that
noids ■ - t\ ■ "
ducts H-*•(.» '■ | c/ Products
" stoned tn the urm/me* propane
butane etbylerir. m nutane
and gasoline he said
Mont Be4vi*M Mayor Fred
M:iier Ordered an evacuation of
the city of 1.300.at approximate
iy 9 15 a m
Early Tuesday, t w
employees >f Smalley a- con
tractor at Warren were unac
counted for Hooper said All
other employees of the Warren
facility and another contractor
Cam were accounted for
Hooper said No injunea or.
deaths were confirmed by noon
but Life Flight wason stand-by
State Highway 146 Farm
Road 1942. Loop 107 and Farm'
Road 565 into Loop 207 were bar
ricaded by Chambers County'
Sheriff s Deputies and Depart
ment of Public Safety troopers
Flames shot as high as 700 feet
above the facility eyewitnesses
reported And other spot fires
were generated in the area by
the intense best of the original
explosion
Firefighting teams from La
Pone Dow Chemical. Celaneae
Chemical‘Tri-City BOach.. Mont
Belvieu Chevron Chemical
Sheii Lubniol Exxon and other
members of Channel Industrial
Mutual Aid responded
The city of Baytown wm to a
stand-by situation Fletcher
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Pearce Street Journal -
Future shock
One of the main problems now
being faced la that more people
worry about the future than
prepare for it
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AROUND
TOWN
DARRIN ARD gives a friend a
ride Mr and Mrs E T
Bishop receive a vtolt Mm a
clown and a bumble bee
Julie Kadjar s car has a new
wrinkle
Vtrgie King supplies informs^
Uon Gladys Keller keeps
Busy promoting an annual event
.... Hr. ItoB.Mn J p Sheltor,
proud to granddaughter Deanna
Shelton, a senior elementary
education major at the Untversl
ty to Texas _
FBI joins search for girl
By LOUISE SHAW
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion agents will Join in the search
for il-year-oto Maty StUea said
Baytown Police Sgt James
Lankford of the detective divi-
sion_ - .
See related column page 4-A
Lankford said a FBI agent met
with Baytown law enforcement
officers Monday and offered the
bureau s services to attempting
to iocale the Horace Mann
Junior School sixth-gpjader
The Baytown sergeant said the
bureau will not take over the
case but will assist in any in
vest) gat tons out-of-town This
will enable Baytown detectives
to concentate their efforts local
»y
Lankford said recent toftota-
tton allows the FBI to help to
cases of missing children even if
there is no evidence the child has
bean transported across state
lines
Meanwhile Baytown detec
tlves are retracing thetr
footsteps of Friday's investiga
tioe of the possible abduction
Mary was last seen by her
brother Bobby, 10 at S p m
Thursday as the played with
friends on the front perch to her
apartment at 1200 North wood
(See FBI. Page9-A)
Officials investigate barge blast
By DAVID MOHLMAN
Coast Guard officials started
their investigation Tuesday mor
tong toto the cause to an explo-
sion that killed a Baytown man
and a Highlands mao
The men. employees of
Petroleum Stripping lac . were
killed when a barfe with
Demons resitoie inside exploded
to 7:10 a m Monday to the PSi
dock naar tha Lynchburg Ferry
A spokeswoman at the Ham*
.County morgue identified one
man as Steven Orr II, to 2S2S
Massey Tompkins Road in'
Baytown A spokesman to PSi
Identified the other man as A.G
Howell of 214 Elite School Road
to Highlands The spokesman
•aid Howell ns to Ids Ms.
A spokesman to the morgue
Mid Tuesday morning that
because to the condition of
Howell s body, absolute idea
tlftcation of Howell will be made
only after fingerprint analysts is
completed
Eyewitnesses report the expto
Mm flung debris from the barge
into the air to the site
A these! tank, used to fuel a
pump on the barge landed on a
tottp decked nearby, Mid a PSI
official The official said Mrs on
See OFFICIALS, Page 9-A)
Baytonians establish
information rewards
Baytonians rallying to the aid of musing 11 year-old Mary
Stiles have begun to offer rewards for Information which might
lead to her recovery
Crime Stoppers of Baytown is offering all.0» reward for ifr
formation leading to the arrest mid conviction of the person or
persons who might have done Mary harm
Russell Liles. a member to the Baytown Police Depart-
ment’s Crime Prevention Unit and a member to Crime Step-
pers, said by-laws to toe Crime Stoppers organization prevents
the group from paying funds for Mary s recovery if she has net
been harmed
Anyone having information for Crime Stoppers about Mary
can can 427-TIPS Callers will remain anonymous
A Baytown mother also has started a reward fund to Clttaens
Bank and Trust Co
This reward will be paid to anyone with information leading
to the missing chiM s safe return
The mother who ashed to remain anonymous because torn
wanted to protect her 7 year-old daughter said she started the
fund to say to society that you can’t do this to us We mothers
trill band together and put up a fight ” __
She Mid a Pasadena woman already has donated OH to toe
(See BAYTONIANS, Page 9-A) < j>
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