MT. VERNON — About 2,400 Ameren Illinois customers lost power at about 11:45 a.m.
Leigh Morris, spokesperson for Ameren, said customers in central Mt. Vernon on Broadway from 27th Street to Potomac Boulevard were affected.
Ameren does not know what caused the outage, but said a significant number of customers' power had been restored.
"We do have folks working to isolate the outage," Morris said. "We certainly regret the disruption the outage causes."
Power was restored to all but one customer at 12:10 p.m.
The Mt. Vernon Holiday Inn on Potomac Boulevard was the single business to remain without power, which Ameren hopes to restore as quickly as possible, Morris said.
Morris said he recieved reports a dump truck or some kind of large motor vehicle hit one of the sub transmission lines on Eagle Court and that there was an exposed line on the ground and a few broken crossarms, which could be the possible reason for the outages. - http://bit.ly/HgvIDk
