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[BOX 67.0397]

Photograph is of two firemen controlling a fire hose that is spraying on a structure completely engulfed in flames from the inside and through the roof. Photograph was taken in the night time. Caption: "Are believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."

Date: April 12, 1960

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0398]

Photograph is of two firemen holding a hose spraying in the distance while a structure is completely encompassed in flames and smoke in the background. Caption: "Arson believed responsible for two weekend fires at the Goodland Indian Orphanage campus four miles southwest of Hugo."

Date: April 12, 1960

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0213

Photograph taken during daylight of a young man kneeling near debris. A crowd stands in the background. Caption: "Because Johnny Steward went on a possum hunt, he is alive today."

Date: January 10, 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0215

Photograph of two men moving charred remains of a person into the back of an ambulance. Caption: "The remains of Mrs. Booker T. Gardner who died in Boswell fire with her 10 children and others"

Date: January 10, 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0396]

Photograph is of unidentified men fighting a fire that has completely overtaken by flames and smoke in the night sky. Water is being sprayed on the structure from a pump truck and a hose from a different direction. Caption: "Sweeps the Hugo Milling Co. elevator as firemen work to bring the flames under control Tuesday morning."

Date: August 7, 1957

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0214

Photograph of two men lifting the body of a person burned beyond recognition in a fire. Caption: "They lift the body of a child believed to be 8 to 10 years of age---at Boswell fires"

Date: January 10, 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

BASEMENT BOX 67.0212

Photograph taken during daylight of people standing near structural wreckage and an ambulance. Caption: "An ambulance is backed up waiting to take the last of the victims from the Thursday morning fire that claimed 16 lives"

Date: January 10, 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0395]

Photograph two groupings of men are each spraying a fire hose on a building on the main street that is engulfed in flames and smoke. Caption: "High wind, boiling smoke foiled firemen Saturday as flames destroyed this Hugo feed company plant."

Date: November 26, 1960

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0655]

Graphic created to accompany a story about fires in the Southwest east corner of Oklahoma. Caption: "Wind-whipped fires caused an estimated $500,000 damage in Hugo Saturday and raged out of control Saturday night in tinder-dry pine forests of McCurtain and Leflore Counties and into Arkansas."

Date: unknown

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[BASEMENT BOX 67.0216]

A daylight photograph of the charred remains of a tragic multi-fatality house fire in Boswell, Choctaw County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Searing tragedy blazed out of the darkness here early Thursday morning as fire swept through a four room frame house burning 16 persons to death"

Date: January 8, 1959

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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