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History: Viaduct born of death

Five Lives Snuffed out at “Death Angle” Crossing, Heights Residents, on way to Chicago, Victims of Revolting Accident at the Homewood I.C. Crossing, Automobile is Hit by Two Fast Trains, Four of Party Die Instantly, One Lives but for a Few Hours, Heavy Fog Obscures View of Crossing where there have been Eight Fatalities in a Year…
 
  The Dixie Highway under
construction in 1922.
(Photo
provided by the Homewood
Historical Society)

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