ST. CHARLES, Minn. — A Canadian Pacific freight train struck a car at a St. Charles rail crossing and pushed the vehicle through the west end of town on its cattle guard. The driver was taken 27 miles to a Rochester hospital. The man’s condition was not known immediately. This was about 10 a.m. The impact was on West 11th Street at County Road 126. The lead engine of mile-long tanker train came to a halt four blocks later on the other end of the Winona County fairgrounds. The train had originated in Winona and was headed west toward Rochester.
Impaled on locomotive. First-responders extricated the driver from wreckage. Image; Bill Spitzer