MAYFIELD, Ky. (AP) — The father of an 11-year-old Amish girl killed when a horse-drawn buggy toppled into a flooded creek says they were on a family outing for dinner and a phone call to her grandfather.
Samuel Wagler said Friday that his daughter, Elizabeth, died while she was traveling in western Kentucky with his brother and family.
Authorities say three other children were killed when they were also swept away in the water. Two adults and three children survived.
Wagler says his brother and family had come to his house for dinner after they made a phone call to their father in Missouri from a nearby Amish community phone.
He says Elizabeth was then headed home with his brother to spend the night.
