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Deadly I-55 dust storm: The hellish minutes scores of drivers spent battling a 200-foot wall of farm soil

VIRDEN, Ill. — By all accounts, Monday, May 1, started as a beautiful morning. Clear skies. Cool. The gusting wind out of the northwest, not uncommon for a central Illinois landscape covered by vast farm fields and little else, was the only sign of what was to come. Around 10:50 a.m., Jim and Pam Dawson were about 30 miles from their home in Hillsboro, heading north on Interstate 55 to a .

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Deadly I-55 dust storm: The hellish minutes scores of drivers spent battling a 200-foot wall of farm soil

Deadly I-55 dust storm: The hellish minutes scores of drivers spent battling a 200-foot wall of farm soil
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I-55 dust storm crash: Read the Tribune investigation

I-55 dust storm crash: Read the Tribune investigation
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I-55 dust storm crash: Read the Tribune investigation

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I-55 dust storm crash: Read the Tribune investigation

The busy I-55 stretch between St. Louis and Springfield had seemed normal on May 1. But then a wall of dirt 200 feet high engulfed the interstate. “All of a sudden it got thick and dark,” remembered Jim Dawson, a 67-year-old who had been driving to make funeral arrangements for his brother. “And boom, it was over.” The 84-vehicle pileup that followed killed eight and injured at least 36 .

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