Kate Shelley High Bridge with Train, Boone, IA
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| The Kate Shelley Memorial High Bridge, west of Boone, Iowa, was officially named after Kate Shelley to commemorate her courageous act of July 6, 1881. During a terrible cloudburst and storm, 15-year-old Kate Shelley crawled across the bridge about 5 miles south of this location to the North Western Railroad's depot in Moingona to warn that an oncoming passenger train must be stopped or tragedy would result. A wrecked locomotive had plunged through a trestle into flooded Honey Creek in front of Kate's farm home, and two crewmen died, two others were stranded in flood waters. |
