Friday, February 25, 2011
MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — Three Amish children were swept away and died when the horse-drawn buggy they were in overturned in a creek swollen by heavy rains. Meanwhile, authorities were searching for a fourth child today.
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 today, Redmon said. Authorities continued searching for the fourth child, an 11-year-old girl, he said.
The area is a sparsely populated farming community in far western Kentucky, about 25 miles south of Paducah.
Torrential rains drenched parts of Kentucky and other states Thursday night.