family mourns girl killed by falling ice

This is tragic story out of Seattle about an 11-year-old girl, Grace Tam, who was killed by a huge chunk of falling ice during a family outing to the Big Four ice caves in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest: Father of girl killed by falling ice: 'I lost my little girl.'

They were in the park to enjoy the summer weather and see the ice caves when the accident happened.

Grace, her parents and younger brother, William, were on an ice field next to the caves when they heard a 'pop.'

"I turned my head to the right, then I see the big chunk of ice falling down," Tamami said. "I tried to snatch my daughter but I couldn't."

Grace was hit by a chunk of ice about half the size of an SUV.

"I tumbled down and I lifted her up and asked her, 'Grace, are you okay?'" her mother said. "And she look up at me and (was) already oh so pale."

Her parents and other people who were in the area performed CPR for more than an hour, but Grace died at the scene. The medical examiner ruled Monday she died from a crushed pelvis.

The family apparently wasn't even inside a cave, but was standing adjacent to them -- about 15 to 17 feet in front -- when the ice fell. It's so crazy and sad, it's almost unbelievable. More here: Lake Stevens man recalls daughter's last moments after ice-caves accident.