The Kate Shelley High Bridge in Boone, Iowa is named in honor of a seventeen year old girl who did this.
- Founded Boys and Girls Clubs of America
- Saved her mother from drowning
- Saved people in a train wreck
- Raised money for a children’s hospital
The Kate Shelley High Bridge in Boone, Iowa is named in honor of a seventeen year old girl who did this.
Saved people in a train wreck. It was 11:00 PM. There was a terrible thunderstorm. Shelley was in her home near the train tracks. She heard a crash. Concerned about a passenger train about to pass through the crash site, she set out to warn the expected train. She crawled along the trestle over the Des Moines River (where her brother had previously drowned) in the dark during the storm and was able to deliver her warning.