16.75.4

16.75.4
Fifteen-year-old Kate Shelley (in television reenactment) crossing the tracks of the high bridge over the Des Moines River in Boone County in order to get help to rescue the men from Honey Creek whose train went down in the collapsed railroad bridge over that creek on the east side of Des Moines River. From a 1981 television program with her nephew Jack Shelley of Ames about the legend of Kate Shelley.
Citation: 16.75.4
Year: 1981