Missing Boaters In Flood Gate Mishap Identified

JASPER, Tenn. (AP) -- Wildlife officers searched a third day
Tuesday for three Georgia boaters missing since an accident at a Nickajack Dam flood gate on the Tennessee River.

Two brothers, 14-year-old Hildebrando Hureta-Hernadez, and
26-year-old Norberto Hureta-Hernadez, were rescued downstream with no apparent injuries after the accident Saturday night.

Their 18-foot boat was pulled into a flood gate.

The Chattanooga Times Free Press identified the three missing
men as 64-year-old Hilavio Soniga, 32-year-old Trancito Garcia and 49-year-old Angel Ocampo.

Tennessee Wildlife Resource officer Russell Vandergriff told the
newspaper Tuesday that searchers found three lifejackets Sunday and pieces of the boat as far as eight miles downstream from the site of the accident.

Vandergriff said the recovery search would continue.