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The discovery dashed hopes that the 11-year-old girl might have been alive and clinging to a tree or rock through the night.
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Teams of emergency workers continued to slog through mud and high water in an intense search for an 11-year-old Amish girl missing when the buggy she was riding in was swept away in creek swollen by heavy rains, killing three other Amish children whose bodies have been recovered.
Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon said Friday a total of nine Amish were in the buggy, a married couple and seven children, when the horse drawn-buggy common to the rural area overturned in the rushing water, knocking them out.
The couple and three of the children escaped.
Redmon says the bodies of a 5-month-old, a 5-year-old, and a 7-year-old have been found. He says they were one boy and two girls, but he did not know the ages of which.
Redmon says three of the children were siblings and one was a cousin.
The buggy and the horse were also recovered. The horse was alive, the sheriff said.
Redmon said the group was traveling in a downpour in the dark and did not see how deep the water was, nor how swiftly it was moving.
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Authorities have found the bodies of three Amish children who were swept away in a creek swollen by heavy rains in southwestern Kentucky and continue searching for another child.
A married couple along with seven children were trying to cross the creek Thursday on a roadway in their horse-drawn buggy when it overturned knocking them into the water. The couple and three of the children escaped but four other children under age 12 were swept away.
Graves County Sheriff Dewayne Redmon says the bodies of three of the children -- including a 6-month-old -- were found Friday around 12:30 a.m. Authorities are still searching for the fourth child.
Torrential rains drenched parts of Kentucky and other states Thursday night. The rural area is about 25 miles south of Paducah.
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