Saugus, Montana

Saugus, Montana

Saugus is a rural unincorporated community in Prairie County, Montana, United States, along the Yellowstone River. It was once one of the biggest cattle and horse shipping points in eastern Montana. In 1909, then in Custer County, Saugus opened its Post Office. Saugus was also home to a school. In 1925 the post office was discontinued.

The town was on the Milwaukee Road railroad line. On June 19, 1938 the "Olympian #15", a Trans-Missouri passenger train derailed when bridge piers were undermined by the high water of Custer Creek casued by a cloudburst. 7 of the 11 cars derailed. Of the 175 people aboard, 47 people drown and 75 were injured. Some bodies were never recovered. The Milwaukee Road changed the named of the station to Susan in honor of famed Cattlewoman Susan Haughian who with her sons now owned it and to remove its association with the accident. The last railroad to run through Saugus was the Burlington Northern Railroad.

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/?sll=46.69194,-105.49583&spn=0.05,0.05| Saugus on Google Maps]
* [http://dotlibrary1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads| Interstate Commerce Commission Report]


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