(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — Authorities have identified two victims of severe weather that has claimed at least eight lives in Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 42-year-old Steven Welton drowned in a Greene County creek Saturday when his vehicle was washed off the road. His body was recovered Sunday.
The Greene County Sheriff identified the other victim in a news release as 60-year-old Edward Kammerer.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Kammerer was driving a tow truck and went to retrieve a vehicle that had gone off the roadway. Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management executive director Chet Hunter says the tow truck driver was electrocuted by a downed power line.
Hunter says that from midnight Saturday to early Sunday afternoon there were 104 water rescues in the county.
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