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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0261]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Boxcar Pileup---This shows some of the 21 freight cars which piled up during a derailment of a Missouri Pacific train between Sallisaw and Muldrow about 8:50 p.m. Sunday."
Date: June 26, 1958
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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0859]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "CUTS AND BRUISES were the only injuries the driver received when this heavy truck, loaded with 30,000 pounds of vegetables, went out of control east of Gore on U.S. 64, and plunged down a 30 foot embankment, overturning several times. Trooper Harold Ragsdale said Ben Mayhew Lindy, 22, of Jackson, Fla., was thrown from the wreckage and miraculously escaped serious injuries even though both shoes were torn off his feet."
Date: May 15, 1957
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