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FLOODWATERS that tore through an Arkansas campsite, killing at least 16 people, also washed away records of who was there, making the daunting search for dozens of missing in heavily wooded forest even more difficult as anguished families waited for word of their loved ones.

Crews returned to the Ouachita Mountains on horseback and all-terrain vehicles at daybreak yesterday, hoping to find campers who survived after walls of water chased them from along the Caddo and Little Missouri rivers.

Other searchers in canoes and kayaks explored river banks for bodies.

Floodwaters rising as swiftly as 2.4 meters an hour poured through the valley with such force that it peeled asphalt from roads and bark off trees. Cabins dotting the river banks were severely damaged. Mobile homes lay on their sides.

Authorities don't even know how many people are missing. Visitors to the Albert Pike Recreation Area, a 54-unit campsite, are required to sign a log when they take a spot, but that register was carried away by the floodwaters.

 

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