PITTSBORO, Ind. (AP) – Authorities have recovered the body of a 75-year-old woman who died after being swept into a Hendricks County creek.

Pittsboro Fire Chief Bill Zeunik says the woman and her husband were clearing debris from an earlier storm out of a water-filled ditch in their front yard Wednesday night. The woman slipped or fell in and was swept away and then pulled into a drainage pipe. 

Zeunik says the rapidly moving water swept the woman's body three-quarters of a mile away and deposited her in a creek.

Officials say the woman's husband witnessed the incident and tried to save her but wasn't able to grab hold of her in time.

The woman's name hasn't been released by authorities.

Flood and flash-flood warnings had been issued for much of central Indiana Wednesday.