Girls swept away in Tyrone floodwaters ‘not goofing off’
The two girls carried through a tunnel on floodwaters into the dammed section of Bald Eagle Creek near the American Eagle Paper Mill in Tyrone before being rescued Sunday were not playing on an inflatable before being swept away, according to the mother of one of the girls. Rather, the girls were walking on flooded Lincoln Avenue toward the car of someone there to pick them up when the daughter lost a shoe that floated off to the side, beyond the street, upon which her friend tried to retrieve the shoe, but stepped into much deeper water over the hidden entrance to a drain tunnel under ...




