Crash Sends 8 Paper Rolls Into Lochsa

One of the eight 8,000-pound rolls of paper rest in the Lochsa River more than a mile downstream of the accident site where a semi tractor-trailer on U.S. Highway 12 overturned after failing to negotiate a curve and hit the guardrail near Powell. A 24-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, man was transported to a Missoula, Mont., hospital early Friday after overturning his semi tractor-trailer on U.S. Highway 12 and spilling 64,000 pounds of paper into the Lochsa River. A nursing supervisor at Missoula Community Medical Center Hospital said she had no information about the condition of Mahmoud Salameh, the driver of the 1999 Freightliner/Lewiston Tribune. (Lewiston Trib photo: Steve Hanks)