Slef, has yore trooper made it back home?
No Sign of Missing Scout at Yellowstone
Monday, June 27, 2005
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Two white tennis shoe believed to belong
to a 13-year-old Boy Scout were found in the fast-moving Yellowstone River,
but Luke Sanburg is still missing and feared drowned.
National Park Service officials said a search would continue for a third day
Monday.
On Sunday, when the second tennis shoe was found, about 250 park personnel,
family and church members and other volunteers were searching along the
river's rugged banks for any sign of the missing teen.
The second tennis shoe was found in the same general area where its mate was
found a day earlier but no other clothing was spotted, said Cheryl Matthews,
Yellowstone National Park spokeswoman.
The missing teen, Luke Sanburg, of Helena, Mont., was pushing logs into the
river with other Scouts on Friday when a log clipped his legs and knocked
him into the river. He was last seen floating downstream with his head above
water, floating toward a stretch of rapids, park officials said.
The tennis shoes, fitting the description of those worn by Luke, were found
about five miles downstream from where he entered the river.
Sunday's search expanded north into Montana from a 14-mile section of the
river between Knowles Falls and a bridge at Corwin Springs, Mont. A team of
kayakers combed the river while park officials and volunteers focused on the
banks, said Matthews. A helicopter also was used.
Luke and six members of his troop were camping in the northern part of the
park, about six miles from Gardiner, Mont., a park gateway. Three adults
were with the boys.
The Yellowstone incident came just days after 11-year-old Scout Brennan
Hawkins was found in good condition after spending four days wandering the
Utah wilderness.
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