Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Near Hydro 08-06-53"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Six persons lost their lives and 35 were injured early Thursday when this Greyhound bus an automobile sideswiped, locked bumpers then plunged 40 feet into the bottom of Deer creek just west of Hydro, Caddo county, on U. S. 66. This was the picture after rescuers cleared the last of victims from the wreckage. A woman and her 3-year-old daughter, riding in the auto, and four bus passengers were killed in this, one of the state's worst traffic accidents."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Near Hydro 08-06-53"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Near Hydro 08-06-53"

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Lieut. F. A. Mussen, Clinton highway patrolman, above, inspects the ruins of the house trailer after Thursday morning`s highway catastrophe 1 1/2 miles west of Hydro on U. S. 66. Both vehicles were headed east when they collided."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Here`s all that`s left of the house trailer and belongings of the Jean Louis Wilkey family whose automobile collided with the bus. The trailer was torn free of the car by a bridge railing but was demolished when it smashed into the bridge structure. Mrs. Wilkey and her daughter, Jerry Ruth, were killed in the crash, and Wilkey, driver of the car, is in critical condition in Clinton`s Oklahoma General hospital."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Near Hydro 08-06-53"

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Okeene will host the 13th annual Whea-Esta, the oldest wheat show in the nation, Thursday."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The floor, Foreground above, and superstructure of a house trailer pulled by an Arizona car were separated by the force of the collision with the east-bound bus. Both the car and bus ran off into a canyon, but the two sections of the trailer stayed on the roadside."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This was the crash scene minutes after the tragedy, as survivors struggle out of the ill-fated bus which plunged 23 feet over the side of a narrow bridge near Hydro early Thursday. Six persons were killed in the state`s worst highway accident since 1949. A greyhound bus and an automobile, their bumpers locked together, plunged into a creek bed near Hydro on U. S. 66 Thursday killing six people and injuring 35 in what was described as the state`s worst highway accident since 1949. Thursday`s tragic accident put August in line for the dubious honor of being the bloodiest month on state highways so far this year, with 16 fatalities in only six days. If that rate continues, 75 persons will die in highway accidents before the month is over. one highway patrol spokesman said. The highway patrol termed Thursday`s crash the worst in the state since February 2, 1949 when seven persons were killed in Tulsa in an automobile-train collision. Dead in the accident near Hydro are: Mrs. W. F. Brady, 75, Little Rock, Ark., killed instantly. Mrs. P. A. Ferguson, 48, Compton, Calif., killed instantly. Mrs. …