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Ghost Story: Crow Creek Flood Posted On: November 26, 2008 9:17 AM
Posted By: Jill Pope
Related Subjects: Ghost Stories

In 1867 the Union Pacific steel ribbon flowed west to the "end of the tracks town" which would be named Cheyenne. Originally they thought to place the depot and town nearly a mile west of its present location. It was fortunate the plan was changed due to flooding that has occurred in that neighborhood. The Union Pacific constructed tracks and rail yard buildings along 15^th Street around Snyder Avenue. The surrounding neighborhood became known as "the Bottoms".   Underpasses were built for the passage of traffic and water drainage. The original underpass at the end of Snyder Ave, just off 15^th St. was destroyed in the 1950s by a train collision.  

On May 20, 1904, the flooding was deadly. A home at the corner of Lincolnway and Snyder was completely washed away, and the remains were found against the underpass to the south.  The home sealed off the entrance to the bridge under the tracks causing the floodwaters to back up, engulfing a four block area. The small bodies of the two Clayton brothers were found in their bed in this home beside the tracks, their deaths the devastating result of Mother Nature's fury.

Twenty-five years later, during yet another flood in the low-lying area, an elderly woman fell victim to the same fate as the Clayton brothers. She was living at the exact same location.   Events that happen in a place make an impression. Is this the result of lingering remnants of the first tragedy, known as a RESIDUAL HAUNTING?

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