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Campus & State
Derailment clean-up continues
The clean-up continues in downtown Red Wing after a major train derailment Saturday morning.
Authorities say 29 cars of a Canadian Pacific train jumped the track near the Mississippi River in Red Wing about 6:30 Saturday morning. Three of the cars contained methanol, a hazard substance. Public Safety Director Rick Rabenort says it's leaking from several cars.
Officials said some of the derailed cars slammed into a warehouse along the river that holds boats for storage. The Canadian Pacific train was pulling 81 cars.
The cleanup is expected to take all day. No injuries have been reported but some businesses have been closed and the area is closed to traffic. The cause of the derailment hasn't been determined.
Local agency to help Iraq rebuild
Members of the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee are in Kuwait City with humanitarian aid workers from 40 international relief agencies discussing life after war for Iraqi citizens.
Francis Hammond of the American Refugee Committee says rebuilding must include more than dropping off some food and distributing bowls and kitchen utensils. Hammond said the after-war effort must include rebuilding the lives of thousands of people.
Hammond is in Kuwait City to set up an office to expand the American Refugee Committee's work in health care and water sanitation in partnership with the Iraqi Refugee Aid Council.
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