CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mo. — A St. Louis man drowned in the Meramec River on Saturday afternoon.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said 37-year-old Devon Mathews was swimming in the river, 3 miles upstream from Garrison's Canoe Rental in Steelville, when he went under the water and didn't resurface.
The county coroner pronounced Mathews dead at the scene at 4:33 p.m.
