LAFAYETTE, Wis. – A hay wagon wreck that injured 10-year-old and 11-year-old kids Wednesday, some of them critically, began when one wagon twisted coming down a decline on a dirt trail, Chippewa County Sheriff Travis Hakes said. Citing a preliminary reconstruction of what happened, the sheriff said the driver of the tractor pulling the wagon tried to slow to bring the wagon back on track. It didn’t work. The wagon overturned and took a second hay wagon with it – a wagon that had a second load of kids. In all, 25 kids and chaperones on a school field from Eau Claire were on the wagons. Miraculously, the sheriff said, nobody died.
