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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0911]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CARS GET BOUNCED around by switching freight train that "ran out of track" and plowed across the 1500 block of S May Thursday night. No one was hurt but six cars in a driveway were wrecked by the runaway train."
Date: March 28, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0912]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEMOLISHED AUTO sits in the path of a Rock Island train in the 2200 block W Reno. The driver, Charles Howell, 3917 SW 27, was critically injured late Thursday afternoon when the train hit the car."
Date: May 9, 1963
Creator: Foster, Ray
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0906]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CRUSHED PICKUP in which a Kingfisher man was killed Thursday rests on the Santa Fe tracks near the 5500 block S High after it was struck by a passenger train."
Date: December 12, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0908]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "FRIDAY, THE 13TH, brought no jinx to two young Oklahoma City men. They walked away from this battered car after it struck a train in the 500 block Ann Arbor. Brian Adair, 18, of 1133 NW 88, and Jim Bostick, 19, of 4845 NW 10, were treated at St. Anthony Hospital for minor bruises and released. Adair said he did not see the train until too late to stop on slick pavement."
Date: December 13, 1963
Creator: Albright, Bob
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0909]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CANVAS COVERS the wall that until Monday night, kept the winter cold off patrons at Geno's Bar, 3000 Paseo, Vabrien Weidey Walta, 632 NE 50, was trying to park in front of the bar when his brakes apparently failed and he crashed into the front of the building. No one was hurt, but Walt's nose was cut."
Date: December 17, 1963
Creator: Traverse, Austin
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0907]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WRECKAGE OF THE CAR in which Delmer Abner Saindon, 55, of Shawnee died Tuesday night is shown beside the Santa Fe railroad north and west of Shawnee. Trainmen said they saw the Saindon car approaching but thought it was going to stop. The vehicle struck the first car back of the engine and flipped over, Saindon, thrown out of the car, was dead on arrival at a Shawnee hospital. He was state fatality number 72… more
Date: December 18, 1963
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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