Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, October 14, 1994                   TAG: 9410140112
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BOWLING GREEN                                  LENGTH: Medium

IN VIRGINIA

Authorities from the Naval Investigative Service began searching for clues Thursday into an explosion that killed two Marines and injured 13 servicemen at the Army's Fort A.P. Hill.

The accident occurred late Wednesday afternoon when members of the 3rd Battalion of the 8th Marines, based at Camp LeJeune, N.C., were detonating mines during routine training at the Caroline County post, Army officials said.

The dead men were identified as Lance Cpl. Steven V. Swearingen, 22, of Lancaster, Ohio, and Staff Sgt. Roy W. Burt, 38, of Baltimore.

- Associated Press

Pharmacist's fatal error 1st in nation

NEWPORT NEWS - A prescription error that authorities said led to the death of an 8-year-old girl was the first such mistake in the United States in memory, an official with the Virginia Board of Pharmacy said.

``We were horrified,'' Cathy Reiniers-Day, the board's deputy executive director, said Thursday. ``As far back as I can remember, nothing like this has happened in the country, much less the state.''

Newport News pharmacist Kent Lee Schafer had his license indefinitely suspended Tuesday.

In July, Schafer substituted Roxanol, a brand name for morphine, for a prescription for Demerol, a brand name for meperidine, telling tonsillectomy patient Megan McClave's father that Roxanol was a generic form of Demerol. In a statement to the board, Schafer admitted he thought the two were interchangeable.

A two-teaspoon dose produced a blood clot near Megan's lungs and shut down her respiratory system, a medical examiner said.

- Associated Press

Escapee slightly hurt after 40-foot jump

RICHMOND - A man fleeing from police jumped at least 40 feet from the roof of a hospital building after making a reference to the recent abolition of parole and declaring he had nothing to live for, a witness said.

James Patterson Burrell, 37, of Richmond, apparently broke one of his ribs in the fall, police Lt. Arthur Carroll said.

Carroll said Burrell fled after being stopped for speeding Wednesday, was caught and taken to a hospital for treatment of a cut.

Hospital officials said Burrell ran down the emergency room driveway and jumped over a short wall, then jumped 40 to 50 feet to a graveled area.

- Associated Press

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