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[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0557]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s the Car This old model automobile driven by Kendreth S. Wilson, a suspended driver, hurtled through the front of the Three R Rancho service station and cafe east of Edmond early Sunday. Mrs. Pat Marsh, 3300 S Harvey, and O. D. Collier, 6 NE 3, passengers in the car were critically injured. The store front was demolished."
Date: May 1, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0563]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Crash Result This car was stalled on U. S. 270 just west of Nicoma Park Thursday night when another auto driven by Lloyd "Bud" Shelby, 30, Nicoma Park, crashed into it, according to troopers Bill Lanacaster and Lee Sardis. Shelby was booked at the county jail on a charge of driving under the influence of liquor. Flame Samuel Fullerton, 53, Choctaw building contractor, was walking around the stopped vehicle prep… more
Date: August 11, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0551]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The car at left was driven by Woody Williamson, 45, of 545 SW 33. All others injured in the crash were released from hospitals after treatment of minor injuries."
Date: April 13, 1951
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0572]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Six persons lost their lives and 35 were injured early Thursday when this Greyhound bus an automobile sideswiped, locked bumpers then plunged 40 feet into the bottom of Deer creek just west of Hydro, Caddo county, on U. S. 66. This was the picture after rescuers cleared the last of victims from the wreckage. A woman and her 3-year-old daughter, riding in the auto, and four bus passengers were killed in this, on… more
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1179]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smoke and flames pour from French tanker Betelguese after a series of explosions ripped the vessel apart in Bantry Bay Monday, killing 50."
Date: January 9, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0555]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Colleen Marie Smith and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson survive plunge. Shawnee, Aug. 17-(Special)-Two teen-age Shawnee girls, non-swimmers, escaped possible death here Thursday night after their car plunged off a county bridge into the muddy water of the North Canadian river. The two girls, Colleen Marie Smith, 18, and Mrs. Dorothy Jean Thompson, 16, sisters, crawled through an open window and escaped with only min… more
Date: August 17, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0562]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Twenty-two cars in a Missouri Pacific freight train derailed Tuesday morning in a collision with a gravel truck near Jasper, MO."
Date: November 30, 1965
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0569]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."
Date: August 6, 1953
Creator: Tapscott, George
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0535]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "CHAIN SMASHUP on the New Jersey turnpike left four persons dead and at least 20 injured Saturday. The fiery collision, on this southern portion of the turnpike near Woolwich Township, N. J., involved 10 cars and six trucks and occurred when one of the vehicles piled into the rear end of another in heavy fog."
Date: November 30, 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0571]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s all that`s left of the house trailer and belongings of the Jean Louis Wilkey family whose automobile collided with the bus. The trailer was torn free of the car by a bridge railing but was demolished when it smashed into the bridge structure. Mrs. Wilkey and her daughter, Jerry Ruth, were killed in the crash, and Wilkey, driver of the car, is in critical condition in Clinton`s Oklahoma General hospital."
Date: August 7, 1953
Creator: Smith, Robert F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0556]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Loading body of George Henry Stocks into Clinton ambulance. Lloyd Matthews, Highway patrol, center, Gene Stanley, Left Lieut. Jack Rollins, HP Right, Accident happened at 8:10 a.m. Sat. Two miles west of Clinton on U.S. 66 Foreground is Stock`s 1941 automobile. Truck driven by Martin McGrath Watson, 48, Abelene, Tex."
Date: September 20, 1951
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1178]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The French tanker Betelgeuse, which exploded earlier today at the Whiddy Island storage terminal, lies with her broken and flames and smoke still pouring from the central portion at first light."
Date: January 8, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0505]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson strolls through a dust-befogged field near here during his "Dust Bowl" tour this week."
Date: April 29, 1955
Creator: Lartz, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0316.0504]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "In one of the parched land areas which he is touring on a three-day flying visit to the dust-bowl region, secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson Steps up to quench his thirst at a pump in Wild Horse, Colorado."
Date: April 27, 1955
Creator: Lartz, Jack
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0561]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Elk City Man Injured When Car Plunges Into Creek Marshall Clinton Kelly of Elk City was under treatment Monday for a possible fractured vertebra, but he was thankful to be alive after his car plunged into Sand creek about two miles from Sayre on U.S. 66 late Saturday. Kelly`s car missed a bridge and went out of sight under the water. Kelly escaped through a back door, torn open when the car sideswiped the bridg… more
Date: February 13, 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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