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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0880]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Investigators check scene of fatal car-train accident in Ardmore Friday. STATE TRAFFIC TOLL 1971 to date 788, 1970 to date 794. 71 deaths under 21: 236, An Ardmore woman was killed Friday afternoon when her car collided with a Santa Fe Railroad engine in the city limits of Ardmore. Dead is ADALEE EMMA TUCKER, 63, Ardmore. Mrs. Tucker, a waitress at Lake Murray State Lodge, was pronounced dead on arrival at … more
Date: December 18, 1971
Creator: Pitts, Robbie
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0930]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WORKERS STRUGGLE in zero degree weather to free the body of Beryle Young, 63, from wreckage of car in which he was riding was hit by a train Thursday morning at Topeka, Kan. The driver of the car, Stan Johnson, 64, was seriously hurt."
Date: December 18, 1964
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0058]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "At left, upside-down and 250 feet from the crossing, Bales' truck is a grim reminder of the destructive power of a train traveling only 15 miles per hour."
Date: September 18, 1954
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0192]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "HEAP OF WRECKAGE blocks the Rock Island tracks two miles north of Kingfisher after seven cars of 68 car wheat train derailed Friday."
Date: February 18, 1966
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0869]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "IN SPLIT-SECOND TRAIN REDUCES CAR TO BATTERED WRECKAGE, This is all that remained of the automobile struck Thursday night by the Santa Fe Texas Chief st SE 50 and High. Two brothers, Jesse Robert and Ernest Warren Daley, were killed in the crash. The bodies of the victims were tossed 50 feet into the air and the car demolished." Photo by George Tapscott. Original Photo 05/18/50. Published on T-5-19-50."
Date: May 18, 1950
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0270]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Butane-fed flames roared for hours Tuesday, after the cars of a 34-car Rock Island freight train were derailed at a washed out culvert near Geary."
Date: October 18, 1960
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0536]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "These two pictures show the terrific impact that sliced cars in half as two Long Island trains collided Friday night at Rockville Centre, Long Island, killing 28 and injuring more than 100."
Date: February 18, 1950
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1119.0270]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Moon Glow, " the lounge car of GM's "Train of Tomorrow, " has four different levels. Mrs. Max Wilson, wife of the train's chief engineer, is on the stairs leading to the AstraDome; A.J. Winters, Holdenville, Rock Island roadmaster, left, and Roland Seward Jr., train manager, are seated in the observation lounge near the telephone station at right. (Mayor Street helped bring the train to OKC for viewing.)"
Date: March 18, 1948
Creator: Tapscott, George
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1190.0619]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Negotiations Are Under Way between the city of Snyder and the Frisco Railway to deed the threestory depot building where Gene Autry was once depot agent over to the city. Snyder plans to make restoration of the old depot ots Bicentennial project."
Date: November 18, 1974
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.0579]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Emergeny workers use a wrecker to try to set upright an overturned tank truck that became a victim of snow-slick conditions on I-35 in the Arbuckle Mountains south of Davis in southern Oklahoma."
Date: February 18, 1978
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.6156]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Two were injured Saturday in a two-car collision at the intersection of Britton Rd. and N Kelly. The driver of the demolished car, Robert Sheets, 20, of 645 NE 63, was admitted to Weslry Hospital suffereing from severe scalp and body laceration, and possible fractured ribs. A passenger in his car, Robert Watson, 20, of 1660 Council Rd., was treated at Wesley. John Provines, 16, of 825 NE 25, driver of the other car, was … more
Date: February 18, 1961
Creator: Cobb, Dick
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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