MINNEISKA, Minn. — A truck and semi-trailer carrying an estimated thee tons of manure rolled off crooked, steep and narrow County Road 25, which is carved into near vertical bluffs in dropping down into Minneiska. First-responders from Altura and Rollingstone used hydraulic tools to extricate the driver. His name was not available immediately. A med-evac helicopter flew him 37 miles to a Rochester hospital. The accident was about1 11:30 a.m. Ben Klinger emergency manager for Winona County, said that County Road 25 would be closed until manure and spilled fuel could be cleaned up. The accident was in the Taylor Hill coulee, which drains into the Mississippi River at U.S. Highway 61 in Minneiska. The route is the main access to blufftop farms.
