Iowa postcard - Boone, IA

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• titled:  Bridge over Des Moines River crossed by Kate Shelly at Height of Storm during the night of July 6, 1881
• My research shows that @ 11pm - Old No 12 with 4 people on board (it was a pusher locomotive that was sent out to check on the track condition -as it crossed the Des Moines River Bridge it plunged down into the Honey Creek as the bridge fell away).  Names people on the train at the time of the disaster were:  Ed Wood / A P Olmstead (another article stated it was George Olmstead / Adam Agar / Patrick Donahue.  Wood and Agar were said to have been rescued, the corpse of Donahue was found later but Olmsted was never found.  A new iron bridge was built 1900/1901 officially called Boone Viaduct but nicknamed the Kate Shelley High Bridge.  She also had a train named after her, The Kate Shelley 400.  Her efforts allowed the next train with 200 passengers to be stopped in Scranton - saving them the fate of the first locomotive.
• Have this listed as Boone, IA but it was just outside of Moingona, IA - so that may be where it should be listed.  

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