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[2012.201.B0303.0010]
Midwest City Police Chief, Tom Denton, holds the end of a board as city worker, Floyd Brown, saws the board held on a saw horse. Caption: "Tom Denton shows he is eager to get two new police rooms finished as he helps Floyd Brown, city workman, saw a floor board."
Date:
September 15, 1954
Creator:
Peterson, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0206
Photograph of buildings engulfed in a fiery blaze. People stand nearby apparently attempting to manage the fire. Caption: "The storage house and elevator equipment was destroyed"
Date:
January 15, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0314]
Photograph is of a fire pump truck parked in front of the J.C. Penny's building. Three fire hoses and a fully opened fire ladder are maned and spraying open water hoses on the fire. There is a ladder leaning against the building leading to a window that flames are visible through. The brightness from the flames and the billows of smoke are rising from the destroyed roof of the structure. Caption: "a $500,000 fire destroyed the J. C. Penney store here early Friday and damaged adjoining Montgomery Ward and Woolworth's firms with smoke and water. The three business buildings are located on the north side of the downtown square."
Date:
April 15, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0315
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date:
April 15, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0051]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "BEING PLACED IN AN AMBULANCE is Maria Jane Perkins, 25, of 124 1/2 W California. She suffered multiple bruises early Tuesday when the car shown in the background jumped the curb in the 1000 block S Harvey, ran up a telephone pole guy wire and flipped over on its top. She was treated at Mercy hospital and released. Three other persons in the car escaped injury. Police said the driver, who left the scene on foot, is being sought."
Date:
May 15, 1956
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0052]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
April 15, 1956
Creator:
King, Cliff
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0122]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH CAR crushed a Del City boy early Saturday when it overturned in a ditch at SE 44 and Sooner road. The victim, Danny Pierce, 15 of 3936 Thomas avenue, was thrown out and fatally injured when the car rolled over him. The driver, James Henry Cunningham, 14, of 3701 Epperly drive, and another passenger, Joe Cox, 13, Also of Del City, Suffered minor injuries."
Date:
February 15, 1959
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0156]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "THREE PERSONS narrowly escaped injury Wednesday morning when these two vehicles collided in the 800 block SE 15, Driver of the overturned car was identified by police as Carl Jefferson Hall, 22, of 2009 NE 21. The second driver involved was Sharon Elizabeth Finn, 16, of 839 East drive. Annette Ferguson, 16, of 626 NE 16, was a passenger in the Finn car. Both girls are students at Catholic high school."
Date:
May 15, 1957
Creator:
Peterson, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0163]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Car and hole in wall. Explanation, next picture. GAPING HOLE was smashed through the wall of a doctor's clinic at 2509 S Agnew Tuesday when a car spun out of control following a traffic accident. Here, police accident investigator J. M. Watson checks damage. Several patients inside the clinic escaped injury but car's driver, Mrs. Mary Ann Tierce, 46, of 1044 SW 30, was hospitalized with a possible fractured knee and lacerations."
Date:
October 15, 1957
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0168]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "GAPING HOLE was smashed through the wall of a doctor's clinic at 2509 S Agnew Tuesday when a car spun out of control following a traffic accident. Here, police accident investigator J. M. Watson checks damage. Several patients inside the clinic escaped injury but car's driver, Mrs. Mary Ann Tierce, 46, of 1044 SW 30, was hospitalized with a possible fractured knee and lacerations."
Date:
October 15, 1957
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0170]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "GAPING HOLE was smashed through the wall of a doctor's clinic at 2509 S Agnew, Tuesday when a car spun out of control following a traffic accident. Here, police accident investigator J. M. Watson checks damage. Several patients inside the clinic escaped injury but car's driver, Mrs. Mary Ann Tierce, 46, of 1044 SW 30, was hospitalized with a possible fractured knee and lacerations."
Date:
October 15, 1957
Creator:
Gumm, John
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0207]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "AN UNWELCOME GUEST plowed across a yard, through a chain-link fence and smashed into the den of the C.D. Slack home at 4032 NW 23 Saturday afternoon destroying a television set and damaging other household articles. The driver of the car, Mrs. Elizabeth Anna Belt, 65, of 4049 NW 19, told officers she "blacked Out" shortly before the crash. No one was hurt."
Date:
May 15, 1955
Creator:
Davis, Ernest L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0310]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Cars Stacked Up Following Collision at City Corner, Police had a time Tuesday morning trying to figure out how a freak accident at SW 29 and Western ended up like this: One car on top of another. After investigation, officers said evidence indicated the two cars collided in the intersection, knocking the light-colored auto into a signal light post and highway sign. The car "slid" up the light post, then fell back down, landing on top of the second car. Dale Shelly Duke, 27, Newcastle, driver of the top car, suffered rib fractured and was taken to Mercy hospital. The other driver, Wayne Melvin Grimmwood, Route 2, Norman, was not injured. Grimwood, 21, was booked on a charge of reckless driving."
Date:
December 15, 1953
Creator:
Kaho, C. J.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0323]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THREE WERE KILLED Sunday when the sedan above crashed into the side of another vehicle at the intersection of SH 37 and 74, two miles west of Moore. Two air national guardsman, Maynard Lee Frost, 21, and K. Cameron were riding in the sedan above. The other car was occupied by Robert Lewis Martin, all of the victims were from Norman."
Date:
December 15, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0353]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "SEVEN PERSONS-- including four passengers in this 1953 sedan -- were injured late Monday night in a two car collision west of Norman on SH 74. Driver of the car, Rev. Lemuel Summers, suffered minor cuts. Two women, one a passenger in Summers' car, were critically injured."
Date:
January 15, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0355]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Seven Persons-- including four passengers in this 1953 sedan -- were injured lat Monday night in a two car collision west of Norman on SH 74. Driver of the car, Rev. Lemuel Summers, suffered minor cuts. Two women, one a passenger in Summers' car, were critically injured."
Date:
January 15, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0400]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ouch! Two persons were injured Wednesday afternoon when two cars collided at the three-way corner of NW 10, Walker and Classen. Damage to cars, above, was heavy. Mrs. Ethel Boyd, 49, Fay, Dewey county, a passenger in the one car, was taken to Mercy hospital. She suffered cuts and several ribs were broken. Bobby Lee Jones, 24, route 9, was driving the other car. He was treated for bruises. Jones told F.C. Daniels and W.A. Williams, police accident investigators, he was following behind a truck going northwest on Classen. When the truck turned left at the intersection, he said the car driven by Eugene Grant Boyd, 53, also of Fay, was right in front of him. Boyd was not injured."
Date:
March 15, 1950
Creator:
Owen, A. Y.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0488]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Four persons were hurt, none seriously, Tuesday night in a freak accident at Reno and Western involving two buses, a pickup truck and two automobiles. Traffic was tied up more than an hour during the 6 PM rush period, while police tried to untangle the sandwiched mass. Vehicles were strung out for a half block at the busy intersection. Three ambulances carried the injured to city hospitals. Carman A. Freeman, 41, of 2333 SW Binkley, driver of a city bus was charged with reckless driving by R.S. Clark and R.D. McGuire, police accident investigator. treated for minor cuts and bruises at Mercy and St. Anthony hospitals were: Carmen Legrand, 32, of 3212 S Olie; Mrs. Oscar Schmidt, 56, of 1004 SW 28; Mrs. Irene Altizer, 25, and her son, Jerry, 6, of 1519 SW 51. All were discharged after receiving emergency treatment. Clark and McGuire said their investigation disclosed a Britton bus, the pickup truck and two sedans were stopped at the traffic light when the city bus driven by Freeman crashed into the rear of the truck driven by Mrs. Legrand. Freeman told the police he had …
Date:
January 15, 1952
Creator:
Peterson, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0506]
Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Five Are Hurt -Five persons were injured when these two vehicles collided Friday night at Sooner road and NE 23. Highway patrol officers said the crash occurred when the driver of the truck pulled onto the highway from a driveway and was struck broadside by the car. Both vehicles burst into flames after the crash. The driver of he vehicle, George H. Smith, 609 N Lottie, driver of he car, suffered a deep cut on his head."
Date:
September 15, 1950
Creator:
McLaughlin, Al
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0801]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "LUCKY TO BE ALIVE after being involved in the crumpled wreckage in top photo are Frank H. Carpenter, left, and Bobby McFadden, right, both of Midwest City."
Date:
August 15, 1956
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.0803]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DEATH TRUCK, crumpled after overturning twice, marks the spot where 15-year-old Jody Walker, Nicoma Park, was killed Saturday afternoon."
Date:
June 15, 1958
Creator:
Dodson, Buddy
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1147]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date:
March 15, 1958
Creator:
Winford, Wesley
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0052.1148]
Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This Heavy blade was wrenched free and hurled through the air by the force of the crash. A 48-year-old street department employe was critically injured Saturday morning when his road grader was struck broadside by the engine of a 124-car Rock Island freight train at a crossing near SW Linn and California. Taken to Mercy hospital suffering from a severed right hand, concussion, severe head and internal injuries was Hubert J. Dickson sr., 301 SE 41. His condition was termed "very grave" by physicians. Dickson, according to witnesses, was pinned in the wreckage. His right arm was severed between the hand and elbow. The street department road grader was demolished in the grinding crash and wreckage was strewn along both sides of the railroad bed for several hundred feet. The engine of the train also was heavily damaged. Street department officials said Dickson had been operating the road grader on Linn street. He apparently did not see the approaching freight train in time to avoid the collision."
Date:
March 15, 1958
Creator:
Winford, Wesley
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0053.0004]
Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Wild Boxcar Rams Train at City Station. A wild freight car, mis-switched in the Santa Fe station yard here Saturday morning, plowed into the side of two Pullman cars entering the station on elevated tracks from the south."
Date:
January 15, 1955
Creator:
Peterson, Dick
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History