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BASEMENT BOX 67.0095

Description: Photograph taken during daylight of flaming structural wreckage during a fire. Caption: "An early morning fire swept through a business block in Sasakwa and destroyed approximately half of the retail establishments in this city of 500 residents."
Date: October 11, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0861]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Richard Epperly, 24 year old Tulsa truck driver, ducked just in time when this heavy pipe rammed through his windshield during an accident nine miles south of Seminole on SH 99. State trooper said Epperly's truck, carrying pipe, ran out of control and into a ditch. The pipe rammed through the cab, missing Epperly's head by inches. the driver was hospitalized in Seminole with an injured ankle and facial cuts."
Date: March 16, 1952
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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