Rescuers look for two missing men on the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels (Iggy Garcia/WOAI)
Updated: Thursday, 09 Sep 2010, 5:48 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 09 Sep 2010, 7:39 AM CDT
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP/KXAN) - Authorities found the body of one of two men missing in the Guadalupe River. Derek Clemens, 23, of Michigan was found Thursday afternoon about a 1/2 mile downstream.
The other man has not been found.
The men were swimming in the Guadalupe River as it was still raging from the remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine when they were
New Braunfels police Lt. John Wells said 28-year-old Nikos Paraskevopoulos of Alexandria, La., and 23-year-old Derek Joel-Nelson Clemens of Baldwin, Mich., were last seen jumping from a railroad bridge located just upstream from the Mill Dam, a low head damn located between the railroad tracks and the Faust St. footbridge.
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Wells said the men were caught in a fast-moving current and were swept over a dam. Clemens was later seen being carried toward an Interstate 35 overpass.
"Both men were caught in the hydraulic boil line below the dam. One man was seen floating downstream. Witnesses reported he was face-down in the water and making no attempts to swim or self-rescue when he passed out of site beneath the Faust St. bridge," read a fire department press release. "The other man was not seen again after entering the hydraulic."
The search was suspended Wednesday night and resumed at daybreak Thursday.
Remnants of Hermine swamped Central and North Texas, causing several deaths.
Rescue teams in Austin continue their search for a missing person whose SUV was found in flooded Bull Creek on Wednesday. One person was killed in Salado and another in the Killeen area.