4 GIRLS KILLED WHEN WIND TOPPLES GIANT MAPLE TREE.Byline: The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Four girls in the back of a van, going to a church school - one wearing headphones Head-mounted speakers. Headphones have a strap that rests on top of the head, positioning a pair of speakers over both ears. For listening to music or monitoring live performances and audio tracks, both left and right channels are required. , listening to music, others cradling knapsacks and lunch bags - were killed Thursday morning when a swaying silver maple seven stories tall toppled over in a gale and crushed them on a residential street in Queens. Four other children and two adults were injured in what officials called a tragic accident they attributed to 60 mph winds, a 1920s tree whose roots were cut by sidewalk workers last year and the chance-in-a-million passing of the van on its way to the Allen Christian School A Christian School is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country according to the religious, educational, and political culture. in Jamaica, Queens Jamaica is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City. It was settled as a town by the English under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland. The neighborhood is part of Queens Community Board 12. , affiliated with the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist denomination (see Methodism). It was established in 1816 in Philadelphia with Richard Allen as its first bishop. In 1991 there were about 3.5 million members in the United States. , whose pastor is Rep. Floyd Flake. On a day when high winds caused havoc across the region, killing at least one other person, witnesses told of howling gusts and a roar like thunder as the great maple, 70 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter, came down at 7:15 a.m. and smashed in the back of the Dodge Ram, which was carrying eight children from 4 to 14 years old and two adults. The driver, Maxine Capers, 61, shrieked shriek n. 1. A shrill, often frantic cry. 2. A sound suggestive of such a cry. v. shrieked, shriek·ing, shrieks v.intr. 1. To utter a shriek. 2. : ``Get the babies out Get the babies out '' as she crawled bleeding from the wrecked van, its front end lifted a foot off the ground like a see-saw. Her husband, Sam Capers, 64, came out the passenger side, sobbing and praying, ``Oh God help us, have mercy '' Neighbors rushed from houses, some in undershirts and nightgowns, and helped to pry open the doors and pull out three girls and a boy, bleeding and crying, from the middle seat. But even as emergency police units with chain saws and other equipment arrived, it was apparent there was no hope for those under the back roof, flattened and mangled by the tree trunk's enormous blow. ``In the back seat, four girls, they were dead,'' Jessie Mace said, choking back tears at a memory of crumpled crum·ple v. crum·pled, crum·pling, crum·ples v.tr. 1. To crush together or press into wrinkles; rumple. 2. To cause to collapse. v.intr. 1. children, 9 to 12, in the yellow blouses and dark pleated skirts that were their school uniforms. |
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