Two of the four people who had been inside the locomotive were saved. Shelley soon awoke and took rescuers to the site where the locomotive went into the water. A railroad worker was able to flag down and stop the " Midnight Limited," an express train carrying about 200 passengers, preventing those on board from a horrific fate. She then ran at least a mile to reach a depot in the town of Moingona, alerting workers to what had happened, before she fainted. Unable to help those that had been in the locomotive, Shelley's focus was to cross the bridge to save an even bigger catastrophe.ĭespite her lantern going out, Shelley was able to crawl across the damaged railroad bridge, in part due to lightning lighting the way.
The girl's name was Kate Shelley. The daughter of a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad worker, she carried only a lantern as she made her way to the site of the accident.
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