CHATFIELD, Minn. – Everybody in Chatfield and adjacent Elmire Township lost power when a soil-sampling crew struck a buried power line 10 miles north near Dover. A crew member was hurt and taken to a Rochester hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The outage, about 10:20 a.m., affected 1,500 customers of People’s Energy Co-op. One lane of Interstate 90 near Dover was closed about 40 minutes.
