Custer Creek train wreck

Custer Creek train wreck
Details
DateJune 19, 1938 (1938-06-19)
12.35 a.m.
LocationPrairie County, near Saugus, Montana
CountryUnited States
OperatorMilwaukee Road
Incident typeBridge collapse
CauseCloudburst
Statistics
Trains1
Passengers155
Deaths49
Injured75

The Custer Creek train wreck (sometimes called the Saugus train wreck) is the worst rail disaster in Montana history. It occurred on June 19, 1938 when a bridge, its foundations washed away by a flash flood, collapsed beneath Milwaukee Road's Olympian as it crossed Custer Creek, near Saugus, Montana, south-west of Terry, killing 49 people.