Eleven hikers were missing in Arizona Wednesday after a flash flood sent an 11-foot wall of water roaring through a narrow section of a normally dry canyon. A helicopter spotted one body Wednesday about 1 1/2 miles downstream from where the hikers were swept away, but it hadn’t been recovered, Coconino County Sheriff Joe Richards said. A tour guide leading a group of the hikers was rescued while clinging to a rock at the bottom of Antelope Canyon near Lake Powell in north-central Arizona near the Utah line, Richards said. It was the fourth devastating flash flood in Arizona in a week during the Southwest’s annual monsoon season. The rescued man, Poncho Quintane, 28, was a guide for a company called TrekAmerica, sheriff’s Capt. Rex Stermer said. Quintane was treated at a hospital and released.
