Investigators in Hood River County, Oregon, believe the Ford station wagon the vehicle which belonged to Ken and Barbara Martin, who disappeared along with their children in 1958

A crane resumed dredging on the Columbia River on Friday as it tired to clear a way to pull out a station wagon that is believed to have belonged to an Oregon family of five who disappeared nearly 70 years ago while they were out searching for Christmas greenery.

The Martin family, who lived in Portland, disappeared after driving to the Columbia River Gorge that December, in search of Christmas greenery to decorate their home, reported The Oregonian.