NewsNovember 22, 1993

MARQUAND -- The body of a 79-year-old Marquand man swept away by flash flooding along the Castor River Nov. 14 was found by a hunter Saturday. The body of Earl C. Storie was found near Trail's End Ranch, not far downstream from the point where his flooded car was found Nov. 14, said a spokeswoman for the Madison County Sheriff's Department...

MARQUAND -- The body of a 79-year-old Marquand man swept away by flash flooding along the Castor River Nov. 14 was found by a hunter Saturday.

The body of Earl C. Storie was found near Trail's End Ranch, not far downstream from the point where his flooded car was found Nov. 14, said a spokeswoman for the Madison County Sheriff's Department.

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The body was found at 10:53 a.m. near Route DD, about three-fourths of a mile past the low-water bridge.

The sheriff had called off the search for Storie on Thursday because of high water.

Storie was a retired auto mechanic who had moved to Marquand from California in 1989.

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