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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1064]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH IN SNOW came to a Magazine, Ark., man, Joesph Frank Hughes, 39, when this pickup he was driving skidded into the path of a Greyhound bus Friday night on ice-coated U. S. 69 south of McAlester. the motor was ripped from its mounts by the collision. The bus, driven by James Carl McConnell, Tulsa, carried no passengers."
Date: January 23, 1966
Creator: Southard, Jack
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0553]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Three Escape Death as Auto Hits Tree Three Oklahoma Cityans escaped death near Hartshorne when this car went out of control, skidded 219 feet, overturned and struck a large tree. The tree crashed through the car, shattering the windshield. The car was driven by David C. Hadaway, 48, of 1027 Lackey drive. His wife was taken to a McAlester hospital suffering internal injuries and Hadaway was struck on the shoulde… more
Date: September 5, 1951
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0194]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "JUMBLED WRECKAGE of 21 freight cars, part of a 135 car Rock Island train, littered the tracks near Haywood in Pittsburg County after they derailed Wednesday."
Date: September 10, 1964
Creator: Oklahoma
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0846]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "L. J. Gordon, Edwardsville, Ill., was burned to death when his truck burst into flames after plunging over an embankment 10 miles north of McAlester on U.S. 69. Highway patrolman said Gordon attempted to pass a car when a front tire blew out, causing the truck to plunge down an eight foot embankment."
Date: April 7, 1947
Creator: Cowan, Howard
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents [Summer 1980]

Description: Notes and Documents column for Summer 1980, including a notice about the Edna May Armold Archives Room at the El Reno Carnegie Library, as well as a record of the mining disaster that occurred at Krebs Mine No. 11 in the form of a poem and a list of names of those killed.
Date: Summer 1980
Creator: Armold, Edna May & Snodgrass, Martha
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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