ROCHESTER, Minn. – A 70-year-old Rochester man, whom witnesses said had his head down, walked into a Canadian Pacific freight train downtown at a crossing with flashing lights. The man died on the spot. Police didn’t release the man’s name immediately. They have no explanation for why them man, a pedestrian, walked into directly the moving train. This was about 1 p.m. at Broadway and Civic Center Drive. Witnesses said the train had blown its warning horn. The train was a through freight hauling ethanal on the trans-Minnesota route line to Winona.
