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Wednesday, May 15, 2002

Men still missing after second day of river search


Operation limited by turbulent water

By Jim Hannah, jhannah@enquirer.com
The Cincinnati Enquirer

        After another all-day search of the Ohio River on Tuesday, police identified the body of a young man found floating in the river Monday, but were unable to locate two Kentucky men feared drowned af ter their small boat capsized.

        Clermont County Sheriff A.J. “Tim” Rodenberg Jr. said boats searched from the Meldahl Dam downriver to the New Richmond area as a helicopter hovered overhead.

        Turbulent waters prevented divers from entering the water, Sheriff Rodenberg said, angering some relatives of the missing men. He said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would also not allow search operations close to the dam Tuesday because of safety concerns.

        The body of Arnold Hampton, 22, who disappeared in the river April 16 near Maysville, Ky., was discovered near the dam as searchers looked for two men thrown overboard when their 15-foot john boat capsized in rough waters Monday about 25 miles southeast of Cincinnati.

        Mr. Hampton had been missing since he was swept away by strong currents while playing football in a creek that fed into the river.The search for the two other men — Danny Eaton, 27, of Foster and Robert Wood, 24, of Falmouth — was scheduled to continue at sunrise today. Rescue workers called off their search at about 7 p.m. Tuesday.

        A third man on the boat, Jeremy King, 25, of West Berry, Ky., was rescued by a tug boat.

        The three men had entered the river from the Kentucky side op posite Chilo, Ohio, about 2 p.m. Monday, according to police, and they fished near the dam until their boat capsized closer to the Ohio side. The alarm was sounded when dam workers spotted the capsized boat.

        The Clermont County Sheriff's Department led the search operations for the second day, but Kentucky rescue personnel assisted.

        “I was on a boat most of the day searching the banks on both the Kentucky and Ohio side,” said Mark Hart, chief of Pendleton County Search and Rescue Inc.

        “We looked downriver because there is a possibility the bodies were carried through when the locks were opened.”

       



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