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Slide: survivors.

A2- The Terrace Standard, ede Septonibr 8, 2004

grateful for aid |

Just ‘moments: after Wik. ~liams was freed fromthe _ Slide, strapped. into a -bas~": ket stretcher and: pulled ta.” _ Safety, ‘the: mountainside 2

- let loose again.

“I. would,“haye® been =: ~ buried.’ I would. have. been =

“gone for sure.” ge _| a a

Hours” before; he ‘and =

Allen. Jones, .70,.had- dri ven to: Bell- Il:

‘liams*”

~ wark.one day. éatly..-

_ “We were just-20 iniles.. “We - - game around a corner’and > we couldn't see: anything,..~

froni hame,”” he said.

it was! raining cthat’-hard. . Everything» “was” black? *.

That's ‘when they: ‘hit, the. © ‘edge’ of. the: slide. Williams

~~. got out to: push the car:

came. down: and: ‘it “just swept: me. away.”

a He ‘became’ wedged un * ~ der: “a

- At first‘his ‘head Was. under ae the water and. mud,., but” "... Somehow, ‘he’: :managed | to“

"get. his “nose”. and” eyes. above’ the surface. °

Up to his-neck in VA cone.” :

“crete: like mixture: Of. mud,

Tog. °

Tt feels’ ‘like * you ‘re “ee.

; cased, in 2 “tomb.” ue

that’ § “the @ dase chainsaw; oe ‘me ‘oul OF

34.km north,’ ‘of Terrace on High- way 37 —.to: pick-up. Wil: | girlfriend, - Jenny” - Parnell, wha?d. gotten, off .

pitch:

‘members feeling calm. ~“P'figured this: was -it, here’: 5.19 sense of. fight.”

cing it. because’ 1 can't gel

out of here. Poe Suddenly,’ “out, of: ‘the

darkness and the-lashing | ~ — wept, away: by a caséad/ .

rain, heesaw ‘People, com-.

; ing ‘towards. him; - “He. heard: someone. say, ca

then get” a

-else until he. regained’ Full “ consciaushess. later: on* in! “ hospital -and “learned” his : ‘companions ~ alive,

nA: few: “of. “the missing

. pieces: have. been: filled: in “by reading: néwispaper : ‘ace, . counts of His: rescue.

‘He ; believes. if” the’: iwo-

Americans’. hadn't” ‘found ~|. shim, ‘he’ doesn't think res-

“AIT cof: a’: sudden: L looked up and’ T-heard the: “roar. and I just . said. ‘Runt? * The.-dam: burst: ‘and. she.

cue. crews : “would” have |

. been’ ‘able: to locate’ him...

“They: ‘wouldn't: have: seen me. With- the : ‘roar of.

“the wind‘ and the:rain; they. we wouldn’ t: have heard. me.” : -He ‘still -can’i. quite: be ° ad lieve: what: happened: - :

= But: he’s. ‘prate fill’ ~ tO. everyone. who : ‘helped’ -

“saved: his: life. particularly.” the: hunters, who. feached os pita first.

“Alle Jones, 10; ‘doesn't

. o semeinber ‘much. ‘about. the’. --pocks, and” ‘debris, Wil: . Hams grabbed : hold of a

accident — - just. that the car.

-was on top of the slide be-* a

: fore anyone. saw it. “Like the: ‘others, ine: got. 7 ~ out. of the. vehicle. and was

“were: “still

*

TERRACE TRIO’ s car after the mudslide hit aan :

* ing wall of mud. 5° ~:

‘watch. -and..my.. glasses ‘did my. ‘pants! But-they got

escuers : also“

teirieved moriey, clip. : .

to. safety.

ose and ears," And: ‘like Williams,

“ “and. bruises:

. He" Il: ‘be: on the: mend.

“For ‘some time, but: counts

himself. lucky. to. have. been

“T-lost my. ‘shoes and 1 my:

lieve: I:

-them' back."!: One. of his

“He: said: young. people “helped. him out I of the. mid:

“were digging - ‘mud: out of. “my -mouth and out ‘of - my os

“terrier cross,

- suffered: ‘terrible: scrapes”

saved by’, ‘guick- acting’ mF ~ strangers. — “whoever: they mie

were

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“EM It's.a. ‘gift of God; Y ‘bee. don't know what -: “else it'could-have been. It’ "was just ‘plain: luck: ‘that: “they “came zalong: when - othey. did. a The. accident’: lefe: Par sonell ‘shaken. She: will. be os Mn-the embulance, they off, work for. as long asa - -mionth, : a Jones’: ‘Ss - “pet: Shih Thu Trouble, was ..|"-". “also lucky. She'd been in. |”

the car when'the slide hit, - but. she, stayed ‘there, safe and ‘sound, .until’ she- was . “found by clean up, crews: “

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