Run, Kate Shelley, Run

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Run, Kate Shelley, Run
Historical Account by Julia Pferdehirt
July 1881
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Kate Shelleys Home
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Kate watching the trains as a child.
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Kate Shelley looking after her younger siblings
after her fathers death.
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Friday
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By Saturday, the ground was muddy and it was
still raining.
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By Sunday, the roads were thick sponges sucking
at boots.
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Wednesday
The rain stopped, so Kate rushed to hang the
laundry before it rained again.
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After all the rain, the creek became wild.
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The barn became flooded and Kate rushed to save
the animals.
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Kate looking out the window, while the other
children were asleep.
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Kate heard a crack like thunder, and another, and
another. With a sounds like a cannon fire, the
Honey Creek bridge, the engine, and four
terrified crew members crashed into the roaring
water.
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Im going Kate said. Kates mother gripped her
arm. No, Kate. You could be killed in that
storm! Kate grabbed that railroad lantern. If
Pa Were out there Id go. She said. I have to
do it, Ma.
Kate pulled on her barn coat and battered straw
hat.
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The water tossed trees and twisted metal like
toys. Two men clung to branches surrounded by
wreckage, they were screaming for help. The other
two crew members had been washed away. Kate waved
her lantern to say Hold on. Just hold on. Ill
do something.
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Before Kate could think of a way to help the men
a terrible thought struck her head.
The midnight express was scheduled to come
through in less than an hour. The train, its
crew, and two hundred passengers were right now,
right this minute, headed toward Honey Creek, not
realizing that the bridge was out.
It had sounded like cannon fire when Number 11
went down. It would sound like an entire war if
the midnight express crashed into Honey Creek.
Over 200 people could die. She had to stop that
train!
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Kate stumbleling Along the rail way tracks.
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Suddenly lightning flashed
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Kate saw a tree hurtling towards the bridge
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Kate could see the
station lights
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The station agent telegraphing six miles west to
Ogden
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The railroad workers and Kate boarded a pusher
engine.
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At Honey Creek The bluffs had collapsed into the
water.
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Puffing engine
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Kate Shelley Iowa Heroine
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