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Three Modern Tom Sawyers Lost In Mississippi River Cave
National Guardsmen and cave experts searched for three boys missing since Wednesday near Murphy cave along the Mississippi River in Hannibal Missouri. The boys Joe Hoag 13 Bill Hoag 11 and Edwin Dowell 14 may be trapped behind a shale slide after a cave in. Police planned drilling from the hill crown as a last resort while two boys who were with the trio said they left them near the cave mouth.
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Hannibal, Mo
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Mark Twain
Mississippi River
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Missouri
Illinois
Murphy Cave
Joe Hoag
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Edwin Craig Dowell
Lynn Strube
John James
Hannibal
Arlo Baldwin
Samuel L. Clemens
Mississippi Valley
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
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