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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0143]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Burning freight cars of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas line threatened to spread to a tank car filled with lethal chlorine gas, following a derailment on a trestle near Atoka Friday."
Date: June 30, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0142]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "A tank car filled with potentially deadly chlorine gas and five other cars of an MKT freight derailed and burst into flames this morning on a bridge across a creek north of Atoka."
Date: June 30, 1972
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0863]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This cookie filled truck skidded 79 feet on its side and the driver crawled out with only a scratch on one ear. It happened about 3 AM Thursday on U.S. 69 about 11 miles north of Atoka. Aubrey Willis Herring, 42, of Dallas, was the driver."
Date: May 11, 1951
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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