For Darcy Custeau from Blind Bay, Jacki Bluschke from Chase and Lenora Shipka from Lake Country, the Route 91 country music festival in Las Vegas was to be the highlight of their second annual girls trip.

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Bluschke was about 10 feet in front of them and a fourth friend from Edmonton was up at the front.

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They lost Bluschke in the turmoil.

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Custeau and Shipka, wearing skirts and cowboy boots, ran, trying to stay off the main roads. As they ran, they called their husbands, telling them they were okay. Custeau has a five-year-old daughter and Shipka, a six-year-old.

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Blushke was on her own in the chaos, but a husband and wife from Vegas asked her if she was alone. When she told them she香蕉视频直播檇 lost her friends, the man told her to grab onto his hand and onto his waist and not let go.

The three of them got out and ended up in another hotel in a storage room, waiting until they could get a vehicle from a friend who worked there, Custeau says. Then they drove Bluschke back to her hotel.

The fourth friend also got out safely.

When the women returned to the hotel, they had no idea how bad the carnage was.

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By Monday evening, 59 people were reported dead and more than 525 injured.

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martha.wickett@saobserver.net
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