The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 169, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1974 Page: 2 of 12
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CLEANUP UNDERWAY—
Dwarfed by a twisted pile ef
wreckage, worker* from the
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begin separating the railroad
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was quartered toward the back of
the police station, surrounded by
National Guardsmen A highway
patroman leaned against one
wall of the crowded room, his
lean face inscrutable Beside him
a man in a mustard-yellow sport
shirt spoke into a radio
microphone He was with the
health department, he said, and
no, they still Ad not know what to
do with those blue barrels. Voices
rose and fell along the narrow
corridors, loud or soft,
sometimes exated
Oitside Moore looked like a
scene from On the Beach." The
streets were eerily deserted No
pedestrian appeared on the
sidewalks, no car stirred on the
city streets This area of the city
had been evacuated nearly 12
hours earlier, at 3 30 am.
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crossed the tracks: the sheriff's
van. several fire trucks, mobile
canteens from the Salvation
Army and the Red Cross, the two
latter carrying coffee and
doughnuts for the tired workers
Many of the workers from the
Santa Fe wrecking crews and the
Hulcher company sat on the back
of the long yellow tractor trailer
trucks, their legs dangling over
the sides Clumps of men stood
about, heads huddled together
brown Smokey-the-bear hats of
the highway patrol, crisp white
hats of the fire officials from
Tinker Air Force Base, yellow
and white hard hats of the Smite
Fe workers.
The relaxed sense of a situation
under control contrasted sharply
with the hustle and bustle
urgency at the Moore Police
Station Police and highway
patrol strided briskly between
the tiny rooms
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H. L. Hawkins, assistant
general manager ( mechanical l
for Santa Fe, Railway Cb, sat
cross-legged on the back of a
trailer truck, his white hard hat
pushed back on his head
There's not that much of it
(the gas) left that s loose now.
that it would do much," he said
He had been roused at 1 a jn that
morning, in Topeka, Ks., with
news that a Santa Fe freight had
derailed near Moore He arrived
at the acene at 6 am
Santa Fe wrecking and derrick
crews were on the scene when he
arrived, Hawkins said, as well as
crews from the Hulcher
Emergency Service, a company
that specializes in cleaning up
tram wrecks
In front of Hawkins the bat-
tered wreckage of approximately
35 railroad cars lay scattered
across a Art field Bulldozers
puffed and roared across the
field, tugging and pushing the
wreckage of the cars.
Near the railroad tracks, one
bulldozer worked steadily,
burying dark blue barrels From
the barrels a thin stream of white
smoke rose A snail roimd ruddy-
faced woman in a Red Cross
uniform said the fumes earlier
had been pretty rough " But
now they drifted lazily toward the
north
Occasionally the dozer rup-
tured one of the 55-gallon barrels
and a white fog churned into the
air. burning eyes and lungs and
sendmg workers and officials
scurrying downwind until the
toxic cloud abated
Workers at the scene went
calmly about their business.
Along the tracks, railroad
workers were already replace
some of the 900 feet of tract that
yellow derrick lifted pre-
constructed panels of track high '-
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gently along the roadbed.
Emergency vehicles lined the
side of the narrow Art road that
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Morrison, Cliff. The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 60, No. 169, Ed. 1 Friday, June 14, 1974, newspaper, June 14, 1974; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1825889/m1/2/: accessed June 10, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center.