"Minn. rock slide kills child on field trip" by STEVE KARNOWSKI | Associated Press, May 23, 2013
ST. PAUL — A fourth-grade field trip to a Mississippi River park popular with fossil hunters turned deadly Wednesday when gravel saturated by persistent rain gave way, killing one child and injuring two others. A fourth child was missing.
The landslide at Lilydale Regional Park swept over a group of children from Peter Hobart Elementary School, burying one to the waist and completely burying another, Fire Marshal Steve Zaccard said. Another child suffered minor injuries in the landslide.
The search for the fourth child was suspended due to dangerous conditions. Zaccard described that search as a recovery effort. He estimated it took workers an hour to rescue the child buried to the waist, and another half-hour to reach the buried child.
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