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[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0480]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Enclosed pictures show scenes of the Santa Fe train wreck at Clinton, Sunday night. The accident was caused when the chain on a stray cow on the track derailed the locomotive, piling up the locomotive and 9 stock cars. It was a heavily laden special stock train bound for Kansas. The engineer Frank Galletly, was killed and two members of the train crew injured, some 50 head of cattle killed, hundreds escaped."
Date: May 4, 1932
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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