5 people killed in a rockslide in CO

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NATHROP — A deadly cascade of boulders poured over Chaffee County's popular Agnes Vaille Falls midmorning Monday, burying and killing five people and injuring a 13-year-old girl.

The bodies were seen but not recovered.

"They are in bad shape. They were rolled over by boulders as big as these cars," said a somber Chaffee County Sheriff Pete Palmer, shortly after hearing from the county coroner who toured the scree field at the base of the picturesque falls Monday afternoon.

"He's seen the condition of the bodies," Palmer said. "There is no one alive up there."

Palmer said 13-year-old Gracie Johnson was airlifted to Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora with a broken leg.

Palmer said the girl was hiking

with members of her family, who include her father, Dwayne Johnson, and mom, Dawna Johnson, a track coach at Buena Vista High School.

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