WILMINGTON, Ohio — A 68-car CSX train derailed Sunday on U.S. 68 three miles south of Wilmington, spilling a hazardous chemical into a creek and forcing evacuations at nearby Cowan Lake State Park.

        Of the 16 cars that derailed, two were tanker cars carrying sodium hydroxide solution, said CSX Transportation spokeswoman Kathy Burns.

        One of the tankers spilled an unknown amount of the solution, which is used to make paper, soap and fabrics, into the creek a few hundred yards upstream from Cowan Lake.

        Police dispatcher David Allen said the spill was first reported at 4:11 p.m. He said several people were evacuated from the lake area and about 30 people went to Clinton Memorial Hospital to be checked out. There were no injuries.

        The train was headed from Buffalo, N.Y., to Cincinnati. Burns said the majority of derailed cars contained paper.

        HAZMAT crews were using sand to contain the spill from the train wreck about a mile south of this city.

        “Some of this material has gotten in to the lake unfortunately,” said Lt. John Walker of the Wilmington Fire Department.

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