Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000

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

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: "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. …

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Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Otto G. Bound - Home in Ryan"

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

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Jefferson county Republican committee is entering on happy days after many lean ones."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An early portable drilling rig, used in the Healdton Oil Field in 1919, owned jointly by Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. and Gypsy Oil Co., the unit was in almost perpetual use because it could move quickly and permitted handling of a variety of equipment."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ryan, Okla-street scene"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ryan, Okla-Street scene"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Native pecan tree cut back-in the orchard at Martin U. Demery, Addington, Okla."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A fully grown native pecan tree producing 12 varieties of nuts."