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Hundreds gather to remember victims of rock slide, including 2 from Missouri

Screen Shot 2013-10-01 at 2.04.10 PM(AP) — More than a thousand people gathered in a small Colorado mountain town Saturday to remember five members of the same family who were killed by a massive rock slide on a popular hiking trail. Two of the victims were 10-year-old Baigen Walker and 22-year-old Paris Walkup, both of Birch Tree, Mo.

Monday’s slide across the trail to Agnes Vaille Falls in south-central Colorado’s San Isabel National Forest also killed 46-year-old Dwayne Johnson, 45-year-old Dawna Johnson and their 18-year-old daughter, Kiowa-Rain Johnson, all of Buena Vista.

The slide also injured 13-year-old Gracie Johnson, who attended Saturday’s memorial in Buena Vista. She told rescuers her father saved her when he jumped on top of her as boulders began to crash down around them.

 

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