Fourteen people on the train were taken to hospitals with minor injuries, while the truck driver was taken to a trauma centre with a head injury, said an official.
One of those barges was carrying 1,400 tons of methanol and was partially submerged.
Thick, black smoke can be seen for miles and evacuations have been ordered after a train derailed in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis. Dupo police say students at a grade school, junior high school and a high school have been evacuated to a high school farther away. Police say a few hundred residents of a mobile home park and a subdivision near the tracks also have been evacuated.
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