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[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0482]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Rescue team looks down on wreckage of Air West jetliner at bottom of gorge. Rescue workers worked their way along a rugged canyon Monday looking for bodies from the collision of a Hughes Air West airliner and a Marine Corps jet fighter."
Date: June 8, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0979]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A small flood was created on North Eastern near Grand Boulevard this morning when an auto smashed into a fire hydrant."
Date: January 8, 1980
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1190]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crews work to replace track uprooted Tuesday when a Frisco freight train derailed at the entrance to the switching yards near SE 15 and I-35. Authorities this morning were still investigating the cause of the accident, which derailed five cars and closed the Frisco mainline into Oklahoma City for more than six hours."
Date: April 8, 1980
Creator: Tullous, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0732]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "City Driver seriously injured A 37-year-old Oklahoma City driver, William Washington, was seriously injured today when his car, left, spun out of control and was rammed by a pickup and a third vehicle plowed into them at 9:30 a.m. on I-40 just west of Western. Four other persons involved in the crash escaped uninjured. The accident blocked the roadway for about 30 minutes and backup traffic about two miles in both dire… more
Date: November 8, 1977
Creator: Ward, Mike
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.1469]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEMOLISHED in a fatal two car collision Thursday in Oklahoma City was this foreign-made car, driven by Mrs. Bertha Mae Jones, 39, of NW 10 and Portland, who died in the wreckage."
Date: September 8, 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0885]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CAR SPLATTERED IN FATAL CRASH WITH TRAIN HERE, A broadside collision with a Diesel freight engine Friday midnight left this twisted remnant of a 1953 sedan at the Rock Island tracks on Portland. The driver, Don Arlo Lauderdale, 25, of 4241 NW 13, was thrown 51 feet and killed. Impact gutted the car's mechanism, tossing the motor 66 feet away."
Date: January 8, 1955
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0051.0487]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Rescue Workers begin the grim job of searching for bodies Monday as the examine wreckage of Allegheny Airlines propjet that crashed while on approach to fog-shrouded Tweed-New Haven, Conn., airport. In background is frame of one of the houses set afire by the flaming wreckage. Only the co-pilot and two passengers of the 31 aboard survived."
Date: June 8, 1971
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0155]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Workmen were beginning salvage operations today after 12 cars of a 106-car Rock Island freight train derailed late Sunday near NE 23 and Hiwassee Road in Choctaw."
Date: October 8, 1973
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0642]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "THIS COLLISION SENDS TWO DRIVERS TO CITY HOSPITAL, Drivers of these two cars that collided head-on on Memorial drive, two miles east of Eastern, Wednesday night were in Mercy hospital Thursday. Roy Lewis Brown, 35, Oklahoma City gambler, was still unconscious at times Thursday morning. Extent of his injuries was not determined but hospital attendants believed his condition was not critical. Mrs. Sara Helen Sit… more
Date: December 8, 1948
Creator: Meek, Richard B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0913]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Four Killed. Four persons died last night in the collision of a freight train and automobile in northern Oklahoma City. The bodies were badly mangled and were not identified for several hours. They were Steve Knight, 20, Lawton; Loretta Detmar, 20, Broken Arrow; Donna Schroder, 20, Okarche, and Reece Williams, 22, Oklahoma City. Police said the train hit the car broadside and carried it several blocks after th… more
Date: October 8, 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0722]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Nasty Spill Amcare paramedic Mark Hunt questions David Bohnett about possible injuries after Bohnett was hit by frozen hamburger patties that flew from the rear of a truck that overturned Tuesday in a three-car collision at SE 44 and Sooner Road in Oklahoma City. Bohnett, of Oklahoma City, was treated for minor injuries and released. Truck driver William Judson Corn, 77, was hospitalized with undetermined injur… more
Date: September 8, 1981
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0391]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Two-Car Crash Injures Both Drivers, One Seriously. Bob Cortright, 54, of 2236 NW 22, was seriously injured when pinned under his overturned auto after a two-car collision late Thursday at NW 27 and May. He was taken to Wesley hospital suffering from sever head injuries and possible internal injuries after bystanders lifted the car from his body. The driver of the other auto, Shirley Ann Etheredge, 17, of 1824 NW 12, wa… more
Date: March 8, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0111]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Severely injured when this car overturned Monday at NW 8 and Shartel was Uel N. Hampton, 20-year-old employe of the Miller Floor Co., 5009 NW 10. Uel N. Hampton, 20-year-old Oklahoma City construction company employe, suffered serious injuries Monday, when his car overturned after colliding with another vehicle at NW 8 and Shartel. Hampton, a native of Coalgate, was rushed to mercy hospital, for treatment and massive s… more
Date: June 8, 1959
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0429]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HOLD THE MUSTARD: A trail of frozen hamburger patties traces the careening course of a truck that overturned Tuesday in a three-car collision at SE 44 and Sooner Road in Oklahoma City. Part of the truck's load hit motorcyclist David Bohnett of Oklahoma City, who was treated for minor injuries. Truck driver William Judson Corn, 77, was hospitalized with undetermined injuries."
Date: September 8, 1981
Creator: Buehner, Jeff
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0064]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "TWISTED STEERING column slammed into the chest of Frank Lee Bohanon, 33, Tuesday when his three-ton tractor-trailer collided with a Santa Fe engine in 5200 block S High, near his home."
Date: March 8, 1966
Creator: Albright, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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