LANGLEY, Ark. — Anxious family members toured the campground Sunday where their loved ones were staying when they were swept away by a flash flood, allowed to see for themselves the steep terrain that made escaping the rising water in darkness so difficult.
About 20 people from two families were brought to the site — the only people still remaining at a nearby church to wait for word of the missing.
“It’s just overwhelming for them. It looks like a war zone here,” said the church’s pastor, Graig Cowart.
As the search went from one of rescue to recovery, 19 people had been confirmed killed in the pre-dawn Friday flood. Searchers recovered one body Sunday in a debris pile, and State Police Capt. Mike Fletcher said one person remained missing.
Many people first feared missing are now not thought to have been camping at the Albert Pike Recreation Area, the part of the Ouachita National Forest hardest hit by flooding, said State Police spokesman Bill Sadler. Those people are thought to be camping elsewhere, out of cellphone range, he said.
