A daylight photograph showing the burning, twisted wreckage of oil-filled railroad tank cars after a derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.

A daylight photograph showing damage at the Shattuck Grain Company elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. The damage was caused by explosions after a train derailment involving oil-filled tank cars. Caption: "The wreck occurred near the elevator of the Shattuck Grain Co. shown in one photograph."

Photograph is of twisted metal with train cars wrecked, smashed, and still smoking in the background. A small group of people are surveying the damage near the pile of wrecked train cars. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cattle Train Wrecked-- A number of cattle headed for Kansas City were killed in a Thursday night wreck at Fargo, Ellis county, when a Santa Fe freight was wrecked in front of the depot."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "After a short wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Buford Johnson will establish a home in Gauge."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Teachers study too, Wanda finds during first year at Grant."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. Eunice Gordon, Shattuck home economics teacher, straightens the hem in Beverly Jones' skirt while classmate Judy Riffel marks the hem"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Resurfacing Shattuck's Main street is No. 1 with the Shattuck chamber of commerce this year."

A daylight photograph showing smoking, twisted debris after oil-filled railroad tank cars derailed and exploded near the grain elevator in Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Eggs are about to become big business in Ellis county thanks to the efforts of Charles and Wendell Chesnut to interest farmers and ranchers in a caged egg production program."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A survey of need for civic improvements is the number one project of the Shattuck chamber of commerce."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Loss of Cattle Heavy as Fargo Wreck Piles Cars Around Station-- An estimated 100 head of cattle were killed when nine cars of 125-car Santa Fe train jumped the track and pile up in front of the railroad station late Thursday at Fargo."

A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of an explosion involving oil-filled railroad tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The image shows damaged telephone poles and a destroyed building near the local grain elevator. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."

A daylight photograph showing the aftermath of a freight train derailment at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. The wreck caused several gas filled tank cars to explode, resulting in damage to the community. Caption: "A broken coupling device on a 142-car freight train was blamed late Tuesday for a spectacular derailment which piled up 31 gas filled tank cars and touched off a series of explosions that rattled this Ellis County community with six damaging shock waves."

A daylight photograph of a railroad tank car wrapped in debris caused by the derailment and explosion of oil-filled tank cars at Shattuck in Ellis County, Oklahoma. No caption.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sightseers peer into the end of the Santa Fe coach that overturned in a ditch near Gage."

Photograph is of a wooden building where part of the roof has collapsed. Heavy dark smoke is rising behind the structure. Two men are on a electrical poll near where the smoke is rising.

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The first concrete elevator of the Fargo Co-op indentifies the town, Fargo."

A daylight photograph showing the burning wreckage of oil-filled tank cars after a railroad derailment and explosion at Shattuck, Ellis County, Oklahoma. Caption: "Wreckage was piled high in Shattuck early Tuesday morning after six oil-filled tank cars exploded."

Photograph is of the oval cylinder metal hauling container for gasoline in the front yard of a small wooden structure home. the tank is black and still smoking from a fire. Caption: "a holiday in Shattuck early Tuesday morning when a Santa Fe Freight train hauling propane and gasoline derailed and exploded."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Miss Rita Woods was chosen Shattuck delegate in district competition for a new trip to New York to the United Nations, sponsored by the Odd Fellows."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Word, C. V. - Arnett, Oklahoma - 1956"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Shattuck's Future Homemakers are holding open house to show the residents of the area their new cottage, recently completed on the school campus."