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Police said two people were struck by a train in Mauston early Saturday and are dead.
The Mauston Police Department said in a news release that the Juneau County Sheriff's Office was notified by the Canadian Pacific railroad that a train had struck two individuals who were standing on the railroad tracks at about 12:03 a.m.
The two people were identified Monday as Jessica L. McQuiston, 19, of rural Mauston, and Thomas G. Kratz, Jr., 19, of rural Wisconsin Dells.
The incident is being investigated as a double suicide.
Charges have been filed against a driver accused in a hit and run crash that lodged the victim in the vehicle's windshield in Manitowoc.
Twenty-year-old Jamie Hang is charged with four counts, including first-degree recklessly endangering safety.
Fifty-six-year-old Steven Gove had just finished delivering newspapers on his tricycle Jan. 18 when he was hit from behind and crashed through the windshield of the car that struck him. Gove says the man drove home, got out of the vehicle and walked away.