Car extricated, remains found - North Platte Bulletin
Workers made rapid progress Tuesday morning, building a berm across the river channel, digging out the sand packed around the car, hooking onto the car and pulling it to the bank. Work began around 7:30 a. m. The berm was built within 90 minutes by two bulldozers and an excavator. Shortly after 9 a. m. , the work of digging out the car began. Christy Miller, the mother of Noah Ramos, 18, who is believed to have died in the car, walked closer to the bank and started saying the rosary with her sister, Jennifer. Bucketload after bucketload of sand was lifted out of the water and dumped downstream as family members watched from the bank. When the excavator pulled out a piece of the car's rear cowling around 9:25 a. m. , several familly members gasped in alarm and moved closer along the bank. Sheriff Jerome Kramer said later that a grappling hook that was used weeks ago to mark the location of the car got tangled in the excavator bucket, and a piece of what looked like a fender came loose. Workers stopped to confer around 9:45 a. m. and then went back to work to hook a harness strap to the car. , the strap was hooked to the car, and after the excavator tugged in different directions to free the vehicle from the clutches of the sand, the rear end of the car emerged at 10:05 a. m. . Ten minutes later, the car was. Source: www.northplattebulletin.com
