During the hourlong visit in the police chief's office, Salopek said he was being held in a 20-foot-by-20-foot cell with 15 other inmates and no toilet facilities. Salopek later was moved to better quarters, Shays said.
In addition to the confirmed deaths, some 250 people are missing and 73,000 are affected, many of them left homeless by the raging waters that have killed thousands of valuable livestock and flooded huge tracts of farmland.