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r <br /> I Page SA * THE REGISTER - GUARD, Eugene, Oregon, Sunday, January 10, 1993 <br /> TREE 't . "': ° '` <br /> Continued from Page One 1 • • 40 i t ^� . <br /> rock aside and cutting through with t 4 • ! 11f • <br /> i. <br /> saws. They located Shelquist after , r i , ' ; <br /> about an hour. She was partially r ,, ( „ <br /> pinned by the tree on the ground level 1 F ' 1 g - <br /> of the house and was pronounced dead / * 4 ' ' r : ' . .� ?i' <br /> about 5:40 p.m., Birr said. ` °`",i. "pr d + 1( A a <br /> Police said Knox returned to the ♦ I <br /> duplex about the same time fire- • 1 t <br /> fighters arrived and told police that he <br /> had left about 3:30 p.m. for a workout. <br /> He said Shelquist was on the couch <br /> watching a movie and had planned to n" • " ° a <br /> take a nap. s ra >j <br /> As the search <br /> Progressed. a crowd mow w ' <br /> of more than two dozen neighbors and <br /> other onlookers crowded behind a po- .., <br /> lice line, warming themselves with hot = " <br /> drinks and debating what might have ' r p � , <br /> caused the accident. <br /> The tree was on a hill above the <br /> duplex. Several neighbors said they <br /> had feared that the tree would fall at tt ' - ' <br /> ter it was weakened by flooding when : r ,' • <br /> - a water main broke last April. One • _ - ..w. <br /> neighbor said water rushing down the PAUL CARTER/TM a.p.t.r•pard <br /> hill eroded the tree's root system, Firefighters sift through the rubble shortly after arriving at the west Eugene duplex. <br /> causing it to have an 8- to 10-degree <br /> slant. <br /> About a half-dozen boys who were <br /> The tree had a diameter of about 5 sledding on a nearby hill said the tall- Non-Stop IIIMIZIN <br /> feet at its base, Birr said. Mg tree blew up snow that looked like sko <br /> Dave Brinduse of 3692 Wilshire a cloud of smoke. *5 to the t ni lane nearby said he notified the area Gabe Whiffed, 11, of 2649 E. Wil- •Rotdeit, RED LION INN from <br /> neighborhood association that the tree shire Drive, who was about a half- .0 ; <br /> was beginning to lean and made a vid• block from the house, said the force of .Keno • & CASINO ppDO <br /> eo of the damage. the tree falling blew snow into his face . <br /> B Sports Bar in ELKO, NEVADA'S *Round Trip Airfare tt <br /> He said officials from the city and like a hard wind. •Poker Ro«n p <br /> ' the Somerset Hills Homeowner's Assn• vu Casino � P1d7i Ruth Ann Bischoff, of 2547 Chaucer . Sports Book lip <br /> ciation advised Knox to have the tree Court, said she heard a loud boom on •live Entertainment <br /> • removed but that he refused. Knox <br /> the hill below her home. *Fun fi ne Dinin •Qtrnpagne in -night <br /> owned his halt of the duplex, Birr said. . <br /> "It was this beautiful quiet after- *Free Codu.ilawhile <br /> "Everyone who knew anything <br /> about the tree knew it needed to come noon. 1 thought it was an explosion at Gambling <br /> out,' Brtnduse said. "It should have fi she said. But she said she and $ 5O in GIVEAWAYS durin • fli • htl <br /> come out. It was something so obvious her son had remarked about the sire of <br /> the tree just the day before. <br /> •It'sfrustrating." 1 (800) 258 -8800 <br /> Birr said Eugene public works otfi• "It was a fantastic tree. [t was one <br /> dais were on the scene Saturday of the biggest In the woods and it had Some Rc,tricttons Rp, ly Deports Eugene Jan. 26 <br /> trying to determine what might have a tremendous slant "she said. <br /> caused the tree to fall. Many neighbors Firefighters advised Carolyn Ko1- <br /> speculated that heavy snow and moil ford not to return to her Gait of the $ 100 000 000 SPORTS SALE A ' = <br /> ture In the tree's upper branches duplex in case of structural damage. <br /> caused it to fall, but Birr said the po- But she said the only apparent damage <br /> lice would not investigate the incident. to her part of the duplex was part of a <br /> "This is not a crime, and were not limb that crashed through one bed- . <br /> investigating it as such. Whether (pub- room roof. <br /> EV E RY is <br /> lic works) will make a determination, I Police said Kofford's part of the <br /> don't know." duplex is owned by Steve and Jami <br /> Neighbors described the crash Counard of Eugene. <br /> I from the tree as sounding like a sonic Birr said no damage estimate on <br /> boom or a gas explosion. the property would be made by police. <br /> Portland man charged in gang killing Ev E Ry 1:. <br /> 1 <br /> By The Associated Prep body yelling 'What's up, cuz ?' and then <br /> PORTLAND — A.20- yearold Port- 'What's up, Blood ?', and someone in <br /> land man has been arrested for al- the car opened fire,' Findting said. <br /> 1 legedly shooting to death a rival gang 'Harrison wasn't doing anything at the <br /> ' r.,a...nar time." ,q �'!. m x <br /> x <br /> 1 1' <br /> >r > <br /> is <br /> 4' <br /> • t <br />