Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jun 12, 2010 0:32:08 GMT -5
Some excerpts from the article:
Full article:
www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/arkansas.campground.deaths/index.html
A witness who was interviewed on camera stated that she and her family had to climb up into a tree to save themselves, and that they could hear children screaming for their parents as the water sweep them away.
(CNN) -- Rescuers suspended the search late Friday for survivors at a federal campground in western Arkansas, where early morning rains and flash flooding were blamed for the deaths of at least 16 people, state authorities said.
The search for people still missing was expected to resume Saturday morning.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said the Red Cross estimated as many as 300 people had been in the rugged Albert Pike campground area, a part of the U.S. Forest Service, but there was no way to determine the precise number. Emergency management officials had put the death toll Friday at 20 but revised the figure to 16.
The search for people still missing was expected to resume Saturday morning.
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said the Red Cross estimated as many as 300 people had been in the rugged Albert Pike campground area, a part of the U.S. Forest Service, but there was no way to determine the precise number. Emergency management officials had put the death toll Friday at 20 but revised the figure to 16.
Ginger Autrey awoke to a phone call notifying her that her teenage son and other relatives who had gone camping at the site were missing. There were reports that the boy walked out off the river bank, but there hasn't been any sign of him, she said.
"I just want my baby, I just want to see his little face," she told CNN affiliate KTHV. "Nobody knows where he's at."
"I just want my baby, I just want to see his little face," she told CNN affiliate KTHV. "Nobody knows where he's at."
Full article:
www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/arkansas.campground.deaths/index.html
A witness who was interviewed on camera stated that she and her family had to climb up into a tree to save themselves, and that they could hear children screaming for their parents as the water sweep them away.
