Posted on 02/25/2011 4:11:55 AM PST by Gamecock
Authorities have found the bodies of three Amish children who were swept away in a creek swollen by heavy rains in southwestern Kentucky and are still searching for another child.
A mother and her six children were trying to cross the creek Thursday on a roadway in their horse-drawn buggy when it overturned knocking them into the water. Authorities say the woman and two of her children escaped but four others under age 12 were missing.
Paducah TV station WPSD reports that the bodies of three of the children were found Friday around 12:25 a.m. near the scene of the accident.
A search continues for the fourth child.
Tragic
How awful!
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Prayers offered.
That is just plain sad.
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Tragic, sad, dumb and preventable. One of the things you’re never supposed to do is drive a car into water that’s covering the road because you never know how deep or how fast it’s moving. I’m sure driving a horse and carriage into water is pretty much similar in terms of risk - subject to the same laws of physics. You hear on the news about people drowning after big storms when they did exacty this but with a car. As you say - sad.
You are correct of course.
It was preventable. But sometimes our minds just can’t seem to perceive the danger and we do dumb things.
Every time I hear about a child dying, my heart just aches.
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So very sad. Prayers for these innocents and their families.
How sad.
Prayers for the family...
A fourth child has been found.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9LJTJLG1&show_article=1
from the article, it was a husband, wife, and seven
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) ... A married couple along with seven children were trying to cross the creek Thursday night on a roadway in southwestern Kentucky when the buggy overturned, knocking them into the water, Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon told The Associated Press. The couple and three of the children escaped but four other children under age 12 were swept away.
The bodies of three of the children - including a 6-month-old - were found early Friday, Redmon said. Authorities continued searching for the fourth child, an 11-year-old girl, he said.
from your link, so sorry to hear the fourth one didn’t make it:
[An uncle said] the family was on the way home from making a phone call when it happened.
The body of Levi Yoder’s 11-year-old niece was found Friday morning, dashing hopes that she might have been alive.
The bodies of a a 5-month-old, a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old had been found earlier. Three of the children were siblings and one was a cousin.
Two adults and three other children escaped. The horse that was pulling the buggy also survived.
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