[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0197]
Description:
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SHATTERING FORCE splintered concrete posts like matchsticks Friday when a California-bound car carrying two brothers slammed into a turnpike bridge. Wreckage from the car littered the bridge floor (above) and the impact made shambles of the car's interior (right). Charles E. Burgess of Lima, Ohio, and his younger brother, Richard Burgess, were critically injured in one of the worst one-car crack-ups in turnpike…
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Date:
January 22, 1959
Creator:
Albright, Bob
Partner:
Oklahoma Historical Society