Update: The Clayton County Sheriff’s Department has identified the man killed by the train as 39-year-old Jeffery Werger of Garnivillo.
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A man was killed by a train in northeast Iowa over the weekend.
The Clayton County Sheriff’s Department says deputies and medics were dispatched in Clayton around 11:50 Saturday night. The office says a man was struck by a southbound train and was pronounced dead later at the Guttenberg Hospital.
The man’s name has not been released. The incident is being investigated.
By Darin Svenson, KDEC, Decorah