MERRLLAN, Wis. – A Neillsville man rescued the only survivor of a nine-fatality collision near Merrillan on Friday. Nathaniel Jahn witnessed the crash. He ran to the wrecked van, which had eight people aboard, and pulled a 2-year-old boy from under the wreckage before the vehicle broke out in flames. The boy was aken 6iels to the Chippewa Falls hospital. Jahn, a Marine Corps veteran with two Iraq tours, said he never thought he would see such carnage s at home. “I think God put me there for a reason,” he said. Jahn, 36, a land surveyor, was starting his workday east of Merrillan when he saw the van, packed with an Amish group, pull out from a county road intomthe path of a milk truck on U.S. Highway 95.
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Burned-out hulk. Van in which eight died. Rescued just in time before the van burst into flames was one of the eight occupants — a biy. The driver of a second vehicle, a milk truck, was also killed.