Photograph taken during evening hours of three men inspecting an explosives truck after a fire. Caption: "Looking at dynamite compartment of truck that suddenly burst into flames near Ringling are driver Clinton Carline and Capt. Clarence C. Greenhill and Sgt. Doyle Nichols of Fort Sill."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Buck James looks over part of the Red River bottom land that he contends should become an Oklahoma public hunting area."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "WAURIKA, Nov. 12. --- (Special.) ----- Victor Eckler, county attorney of Jefferson county, said Tuesday that manslaughter charges will be filed against Truman "Monk" Izard, 24-year-old driver of the truck which crashed Monday night into an automobile near Waurika, killing four persons and injuring seven, two of them probably fatally. "My information will allege that Izard was driving recklessly and at a high rate of speed," said Eckler. The charge will be filed late Tuesday or Wednesday, he said. At the Waurika hospital, where the seven injured passengers were taken, Dr.s D. B. Collins and J. R. Hollingsworth said two of the injured, both small girls, are near death. They are not expected to survive the day. Bodies of their mothers and of two other children, battered and mangled, lie in the Earl C. Morris undertaking establishment. The accident, Oklahoma's greatest single highway catastrophe this year, occurred early Monday night on U. S. No. 81 eight miles north of Waurika. As nine persons sat huddled in the 1929 model car and two stood on the running board, the truck roared into it from behind, killing the four instantly. …

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Ryan- Singing and football don't usually go together, but they do for Jerry Craig"

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An added attraction this year is the barrel race for members of the Girls' Rodeo Association."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "The truck after it had plowed into the "Pleasure Car"."

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "In which four were killed and two were fatally wounded."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "W. D. Bradley, State Representative."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mayor W. C. Johnston pitches in on sewer improvement project in home town."

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Photograph of Ringling, OK, pre-Nov. 20, 1916. Published for Central Drug Store, Ringling, OK.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Left behind because they'd made the Chicago trip before, were this year's Oklahoma 4-H club Hall of Fame winners, above, Sharon Southard, Ryan, and Bill Doenges Jr., Bartlesville."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Football Queen at the Waurika High School is Sandy Stephens, a junior and of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Stephens."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Sgt. Elmer Morriss, Ringling, U. S. Army vet, and his wife, Velma Lee Morriss."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A shame and a disgrace" is the way Elmer Morriss describes the U. S. conduct of the war in Vietnam. He sees the action as a stalemate. "When you're in a fight, you either fight to win or you get out," the vet from WWII said Sunday, as he is pictured here in his Ringling home with wife, Velma Lee."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A helping hand from two pretty 4-H club girls makes trying on caps downright pleasand for Don Hardy."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Prairie dogs enjoy their freedom on the Bob Price ranch near Addington in southern Oklahoma."

Insurance map sheet showing an area of Ryan in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Insurance map sheet showing an area of Hastings in Jefferson County, Oklahoma Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Insurance map sheet showing an area of Ryan in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.

Weekly newspaper from Hastings, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising.