Utahn among 2 to die on Idaho river

BOISE (AP) — A Utah man and a woman from Washington were killed in separate water accidents within days of each other on the Payette River, officials reported.

Boise County Search and Rescue Teams responded Saturday afternoon to a call for help as Michael G. Ashe, 57, of Salt Lake City, and his brother ran into trouble floating down the South Fork of the river, according to Boise County sheriff's office.

"They came around a corner and there was a log jam on the far side of the river and they got sucked to that side of the river," Boise County Sheriff Ben Roeber told KTVB-TV. "It was very deceiving, but they just got pinned up against the logs and sucked underneath."

The station reported the men were not wearing life vests, and that a group of rafters behind them managed to pull the two toward separate sides of the river and then began CPR. The brother survived, the station reported.

Meantime, rescue crews Saturday found the body of Sharon Irene Barclay, 47, of Lakewood, Wash., who had apparently fallen out of her raft and into the North Fork of the river.

The television station reported Barclay was wearing a life vest and fell from the raft Thursday afternoon. Search crews were called to the river near Banks to find her.

Crews later discovered her body down river, north of Horseshoe Bend.