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Show TO FIX THE BLAME FOR GREAT DISASTER Responsibility for Explosion Which Killed Forty-seven Persons to Be Determined. ARDMORE, Okla,. Sept. 2&. Proceedings Proceed-ings to tlx the responsibility for the disaster dis-aster of yesterday, in which a tank car explosion caused the death of forty-seven persons, injuries lo a hundred others and property loss of more than half a million dollars, were started today by the municipal mu-nicipal authorities, who charge the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe railway officials with criminal negligence. This was announced tonight by Russell Brown, city attorney of Ardmore. Of the injured, physicians say there are two who cannot recover. The list of dead is being increased slowly. A few of the victims have heen identified. A dozen "trusties" from the Oklahoma penitentiary at McAlestei arc en route here on a special train to assist in clearing clear-ing away the debris and searching for the dead. |