Mormon headstones vandalized at Wyoming cemetery

BILLINGS, Mont. —

The National Park Service is trying to find the culprits behind a

Wyoming ghost town cemetery vandalism spree that damaged several

historic tombstones.Kane, Wyo., about two miles from where

Shoshone and Bighorn rivers meet in Big Horn County, was abandoned

around 1965 when the Yellowtail Dam in Montana flooded the area

surrounding the small town.The cemetery, located on higher ground a few miles north of where the town stood, wasn't inundated. Inhabitants of the cemetery include Mormon settlers who came to the region a century ago.Park

officials from the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, which

straddles the Wyoming-Montana border, first noticed the vandalism on

Nov. 4, then saw additional vandalism the evening of Nov. 13, KULR-TV

reported.They said several headstones have been knocked down or broken and others have been painted with spray paint.