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World McHENRYPLA^ I UPI photo A heavy mist hangs over the shattered wreck­ age of two trains in this northern Portugese I - town after they collided Wednesday, killing about 50 people. s46 die, ISO hurt in train crash iy Richard Hart JJnited Press International NJSLAS, Portugal -- Rescue Seams Thursday pried apart the Snangled wreckage of two passenger grains that collided and exploded in Mlames in a remote vineyard region, filling at least 46 people and injur­ ing 150. Authorities feared the death toll 'Jyould rise because many of the bod­ ies were so badly damaged -- charred, mutilated or missing limbs that an accurate count was im­ possible In the Wednesday evening crash, Portugal's worst rail disaster in history. Queiros Martins, president of the government-owned railway, attrib­ uted the wreck to "human failure." Rail officials said staff at the Alca- fache and Nelas stations gave al­ most simultaneous green lights to the Paris-bound express and a southbound local train, sending them speeding on a collision course on a single track. Officials put the death toll at 46 with at least 150 injured, 82 seriously enough to be hospitalized. It was not known if any foreigners were aboard the trains. <,„v The wreck occurred near the tovWi of Viseu, about 200 miles northeast of Lisbon. The local, a Guarda-to- Coimbra train with an engine, a baggage car, and three passenger icars, was destroyed in the 6:30 p.m. wreck. • "We heard screams and more screams and more screams -- they were so strong," said Maria Rosa INunez, an elderly woman who lives ;near the crash site in a pine forest in isolated vineyard area. 1 The express, seven passenger cars ;and one baggage car, plunged down the 30-foot embankment, pulling five passenger cars with it. The first car smashed over the roof of the engine and the next two jackknifed on the slope. The locomotive exploded in lire that quickly engulfed three passen­ ger cars on the express train and two on the local and ignited the pine forest. "First there was a huge shock, then flames everywhere," said Ma­ ria Celeste Ribeiro, 35, clutching her 4-month-old child, Karen, as she rested in the Nelas hospital with two black eyes and serious bruises. "Then everyone began shouting and tried to open the doors and windows but we couldnt. "One man broke a window and began throwing his children out. I FALL IS FOR PLANTING SALE 50% OFF P r m i o u s h D u g . H a i l e d < K H u r l a p p c d \ u r s e r \ S t o c k MUMS IN BLOOM i2 to 24 $2.99 S e l e c t G r o u p Mums 6 for $10.00 ACORN RIDGE NURSERY WHOLESALE MON.-FRI., 10 7 SAT. & SUN.. 8-7 (815)385-8829 RTE. 120 EAST TO DARRELl RD., THEN SOUTHS MILE TO NURSERY. 30540 N. DARRELL R0. • McHENRY (V0L0) Police shoot students South African security opens fire on black pupils carried the baby and I crawled out." Her two young sons followed her out the window, said Ribeiro, who was headed to France to visit her hus­ band. Most of the passengers on the express, which left Porto at. 3:40 p.m., were Portuguese workers heading back to jobs in France. Rescue teams workers throughout the night, prying apart the cars, removing charred bodies from the wreckage. By late morning, they had managed to clear away four of the cars. . Hie crash was the 13th on Portu­ gal's railway system this year. The earlier wrecks killed 10 people. The nation's worst previous crash occurred last year when 18 people died in a a collision between a train and a bus at a crossing near Porto. By Erik Van Ees United Press International JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Security forces Thursday shot to death five rioting blacks near Cape Town and opened fire on a group of high school students in Soweto, wounding 10 black pupils and their white teacher. ----- --- The violence erupted as a presi­ dential advisory committee recom­ mended that the white-minority, gov­ ernment eliminate the "pass laws" designed to keep blacks from mi: grating to cities -- a key provision irr the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid. In the new anti-government out­ breaks, police fired shotguns at black mobs around Cape Town who were burning tires and stoning pass­ ing motorists. At least five people were killed and 30 were arrested, police said. A spokesman at a private clinic in the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town said, "We are treating 20 people for shotgun Injuries. As far as we know none is serious." In Soweto, the nation's largest black township near Johannesburg, police said they opened fire on "un­ ruly mobs" at Musi High School, wounding 10 students and their fe­ male, white Afrikaans language teacher, A.E. Bester, 50. The teacher was reported in "fair" condition in a South Rand hospital, while the students were re­ leased after treatment. - Police also said 600 black students were arrested at Soweto's Jabavu High School under emergency rules requiring school children to be in their classes during school hours. They were taken to Diepkloof pris­ on while lawyers prepared legal ap­ plications to free them Friday, a spokesman for the civil rights group Black Sash said. In Cape Town, a committee of the President's Council, which advises Botha, issued a report recommend­ ing the scrapping of the "pass laws," one of the cornerstones of apartheid. The Committee on Urbanization Strategy said in its 427-page report that the pass laws "contributed to the unrest and conflict in the coun­ try" and gave rise to "bitterness and hatred among blacks towards whites who, oft the whole, have to apply and enforce them." - --- The "pass laws" force every black adult to carry an identity document and'were designed by the architects of apartheid to prevent mass migra­ tion of blacks from rural areas to the cities The committee recommended the government abolish influx control and that "uniform identity docu­ ments be issued to all citizens of South Africa." The recommendation came oncf day after Botha announced plans to grant South African citizenship to blacks in four of the nation's 10 tribal homelands. John Kane-Berman, director of the widely respected InsUtute of Race Relations, welcomed the re­ port's suggestions as "yet another nail in the coffin of the pass laws." He also said Botha's pledge Wednesday of restoring ciUzenship to some homeland blacks "sounded the death knell of poliUcal apart­ heid." Other opposition leaders said, however, Botha's proposal would mean UtUe unless blacks were also granted the right to vote. The government is under escalat­ ing domestic and international pres­ sure to implement reforms in apart­ heid in South Africa, where a yearlong wave of violence has killed some 700 people. In Cape Town, 13 Roman Catholic priests at St. Mary's Cathedral an­ nounced they would start , a three- week fast next week "for a just peace." HAIR DIMENSIONS SEPTEMBER SPECIAL! 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