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An Amtrak passenger train gas derailed early this
afternoon in Ardmore, Oklahoma. At least 45 persons
were injured, none of them critically. Devils from
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eight cars of
It was during the noon hour today wher/Amtrk's
Texas Chief, southbound from Chicago to Houston,
with 115 passengers, left the track on the northeast
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industrial area of the city. Rail Damage indicated
that a dining car, packed with the lunchtime crow,,s,
jumped tie track at least a mile before the other
seven cars were derailed. All eight then derailed,
ripping out tracks and rail ties and burrowing up
in the road bed. One of the passengers on oard
the ill-fated train was D.R. Summers of Arlington
who, with his wife, wes returning from a trip to
Connecticutt.Ambulances from all sur ounding towns were called
to the scene and soon all the injured were undergoing
treatment at area hospitals. Memorial Hospital
in hrdmore treated 32 persons, but hospitalized only
seven. The more serious injuries consisted of
multiple fractures, lacerations, and contusionU.
The Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, just across the
street from Memorial, treated a total of 13 persons.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Derailment], script, January 14, 1974, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1912240/m1/3/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.