ST. CHARLES, Minn. — Crews with front-loaders cleared thousands of bushels of corn and twisted metal debris from the collapse of two grain elevators to reopen busy State Highway 74 through St. Charles to Interstate 90. The highway was reopened about 4 p.m. Traffic had been detoured on side streets after the elevators came down in blinding clouds of corn dust. The Canadian Pacific’s single-track line also was blocked. The line carries two freight trains a day across southern Minnesota from Winona to the South Dakota border.
Earlier: Two of quintuplet St. Charles grain towers collapse