Salina Journal (Newspaper) - April 21, 1999, Salina, Kansas Good grain Stocking up on dried legumes a healthy FOOD Fast break Kansas open preseason camp at C1 senator angers former colleagues A3 Tarnished parks Group says national park system needs repairs A5 INSIDE Low 53 Partly cloudy today with a chance of thunderstorms in the morning B3 WEATHER Comics B4 Deaths A9 Great Plains Money D4 C1 Viewpoints B2 INDEX the Salina Journal Serving Kansas since 1871 WEDNESDAY APRIL 1999 KANSAS 50 cento SCHOOL SHOOTINGS massacre Student gunmen kill more than 20 in rampage was By ROBERT WELLER Tlie Associated Press Two students in black trench coats swept through their suburban high school with guns and ex plosives in a horrifying suicide attack Tuesday that left 20 to 25 people Several students said the killers were gunning for minorities and 1 It was by far the bloodiest in a string of school shootings that have rocked commu over the past few One of them opened his cape and had a Finally I started figuring out these guys shot to for no said a Nick The gun man didnt say When he looked at the guys eyes were just The gunmen both juniors at Columbine High School were found dead in the school library with gun shot wounds and what ap to be bombs on their sheriffs spokesman Steve Davis It appears to be a suicide Sheriff John Stone Students said the whose names were not apparently belonged to a clique of outcasts called the Trench Coat Mafia who wore long black boasted of owning guns and disliked His panics and football Davis said 20 to 25 people were students and teachers But by late officers had yet to re move any bodies which were in rooms throughout the school because of the danger of explosives and the need to preserve FBI agents and police SWAT teams slowly made their way through the build At least 12 bombs were found some set up as booby Stone Its like walking through a mine he Explosives also were found in two cars in the school park ing with one bomb rigged to blow up a gas Stone the gunmens homes were being and a bomb was found in At least 23 people were hos most of them with gunshot One girl suf nine shrapnel At least 11 were in critical or serious See Page AS Shooting scene was absolute craziness Photos by The Associated Press Two students embrace Tuesday outside Columbine High School in following a shooting Authorities later found two suspects dead inside the school By The Cox News Service Columbine High School students Tuesday de scribed a scene of absolute fear and after two classmates opened fire during It was absolute said Daniel a sophomore at the Littleton There was a riot toward the Yager said he and his friends were just sitting down to lunch when school officials screamed for the students to get Within 30 everyone started run ning for the Yager At the we heard three or four gunshots right behind Joe Tran al so was eating lunch when he heard a small rumble behind At he thought it was a fight When school officials warned his first thoughts This cant be A few seconds he stu dents ran for the On the Tran he heard more In about one sec Students and police officers crouch behind a car outside Columbine High School while the body of another stu dent lies on a school ond it went from eating lunch to something weirds going on Oh my God youre about to Students hurried across the street to Leawood Yager Six more explosions could be heard in the Reports said the students be to be involved in the shoot ing were in volved in a group called the Trench coat Sophomore Mike Zimmer man said the students were often picked on for how they dressed in gothic fash They were a group of outcasts basi Zim merman They kind of asked to be made fun of and picked It seemed kind of obvi ous that some thing could The mass shootings at Columbine High School left motorists driving through traffic in The situation was still unsettled Tuesday with one report that police were searching for parked cars that might have been boobytrapped with Shooting hits horne for Salina new mayor By KARA RHODES The Salina Journal It happened It will happen Its just a question of The shootings Tuesday at Columbine High School in left Sali na school administrators and teachers looking at disaster plans and glad the the the didnt happen Once they get past the shock in Col theres going to be a lot of anxiety about coming back to said Den nis a of the Regional Cri sis Response Team and a counselor at Sunset Elementary One thing we work hard at is making sure school is a safe But its impossible to make it 100 percent When the familiar world of worries at Columbine High School like how to wear your hair for prom or whether to skip last period on a warm spring day exploded into gun blasts and explosions late Tuesday morning those students safe place was literally blown As images flashed on of par ents looking desperately for students running from the a bloody student barely conscious enough to reach out to Salina parents won dered how they and their children would handle such a Monte Salinas new mayor and a former teacher and doesnt have to He was at Goddard Ju High School in 1985 when student Alan Kearbey opened killing princi pal Jim Shadwick listened to the radio Tuesday as news of the Colorado situation grew larger and harder to Its been 14 years for and every time something like this happens it makes you remember it so he Shadwick was standing near McGee when he was shot in the Theres probably shock and disbelief right he The fear comes I feel sorry for parents who are Like everyone did Shadwick wondered See Page A8 T WAR IN YUGOSLAVIA Party headquarters hit by NATO NATO jets hit building that is headquarters of Milosevics ruling party By GEORGE JAHN The Associated Press The Associated Press A Kosovar refugee rests his head Tuesday while he waits in line at a refugee camp operated by CARE in The man was waiting to register for immigration to Yugoslavia NATO jets struck a highrise building housing the offices of Slobodan Milosevics ruling par ty early setting it The alliance also accused Serb forces of flushing out ethnic Al banians hiding in the hills of The attack touched off a huge fire in the building in across the Sava River from the heart of the There was no immediate word on but local officials said at least 20 people might have been helicopters and troops were headed toward Albania in a new phase aimed at boosting the alliances ability to attack Yu ground forces and stop their campaign to rid Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said Serb military and tary forces were shelling hills where ethnic Albanians had marching the refugees on roads and putting them on then closing the border to What we are seeing as we study these movements of people is a kind of safari operation on going by the Serb security forces Europeans see too much of themselves in refugees Page A7 4 military forces spread thin in the world Page A7 against the Kosovar Shea He told reporters at NATO headquarters in Bel that the alliance was in reports of 700 ethnic Albanian boys as young as 14 be ing used either as human shields or as blood banks for Serb Refugees also said as many as 700 men were used as human shields last week near the town of There was no dent confirmation of the The accusations came as the alliance continued its assault on hammer ing targets in a dozen towns and cities Tuesday and early Firefighters battled the fire raging through the upper floors of the 18story New Belgrade while rescue workers using ladders were trying to beat the flames to the center of the ed where the 20 people were believed to have been Yugoslav media reported sev eral other predawn attacks to day in northern and central Ser including Novi Sad and the town of where six mis siles struck a triggering a huge
