HAILEY, Idaho -- A survey of the Hailey Cemetery using ground-penetrating radar has found hundreds of unmarked graves.
Many of the unmarked graves in the 13-acre central Idaho cemetery are in a one-acre area referred to on maps as the "Chinese Cemetery."
Officials say a brush fire in the 1930s destroyed wood markers, and that another fire in town at a later date destroyed burial records.
Cemetery officials tell the Idaho Mountain Express they want to find unmarked graves to avoid digging in occupied ground.
The survey was conducted last summer and its results presented on Wednesday.
