Certainly dust storms happen, but it is not something that happens every day here in this part of Illinois or any part of Illinois,” Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said at a news conference Tuesday. Louis and just south of the state capital of Springfield, came as high spring winds kicked up dust at a time when farmers are busy tilling or planting their fields, police said. Monday’s deadly and fiery crashes along a 2-mile stretch of Interstate 55 in central Illinois, 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of St. And when it was over, almost 40 people were injured and seven people were dead - at least two of them still unidentifiable. They slammed into one another, leaving them mangled or in some cases burned. As darkness enveloped them, some cars and trucks hurtling down the road put on their brakes others didn’t. The brown cloud’s intensity caked even the insides of vehicles in dirt. (AP) - Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of minutes.
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