DE SOTO, Mo. (AP) _ A 15-year-old girl Missouri girl died when she was struck
by a train after she and friends climbed a train trestle to jump into a creek.
Jefferson County Sheriff’s spokesman Grant Bissell says five teens were
swimming in a creek Sunday afternoon near the unincorporated town of Hematite
when they climbed a trestle to jump into the creek. Three of the friends heard a
Union Pacific train coming and jumped into the creek but two others tried to
run.
One made it to safety but the 15-year-old was struck and killed.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Bissell said Jefferson County and Union
Pacific are each conducting investigations of the incident.
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