Iowa Old Press
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co., Iowa
March 2, 1913
SIDNEY-- The dangerous Summit crossing on the Wabash railroad,
midway between Summit and Imogene, a death trap that already has
sent two men to their doom and has been the scene of innumerable
lesser accidents within the last decade, is at last to be
abolished, or rather, be rendered far less dangerous, by placing
the roadway underneath the the railroad tracks.
The Wabash company agrees only to excavate twelve feet square,
but interested parties knowing that this would be too small for
convenience have rasied $900 by popular subscription to enlarge
the opening to a proper size. The excavation as planned will be
nearly 600 feet long, sixteen feet wide and nearly seventeen
feet deep at the lowest point. George Tompkins is superintending
the work.
[submitted by W.F., October 2006]