Show RAILROAD BLAMED fOR DISASTER Tank Car Cal Explosion at Ardmore Alleged to Be Result of Criminal Negligence Ardmore Okla Sept 28 8 Proceed Proceedings lIngs l- l ings to fix tho responsibility for the disaster r of or yesterday In which a tank car explosion caused tho the death of ot forty forty- four Cour persons person Injuries to a hundred others and property 10 loss of more moro than started to toda today today to- to half halt a n million dollars dollar were wre da day by the tho municipal authorities who char charge o Gulf Colorado Santa Fo Fe railway railway rail rail- way a officials with criminal negligence This was us announced tonight by Russell Drown Brown elt city attorney of ot Ardmore after atter an all da day all session cession of or the Ardmore elt city commission The city attorney said laid tonight the Santa Fe officials would bo be charged with failure to comply with the regulations o of the interstate commerce com corn merce merco commission respecting the loading load load- ing InE and hauling of ot ga gasoline The rho city officials It Is 18 said eaid will al allege allege allege al- al lege that the tho railroad company campan should havo have left leet tho the bad order car in which the gasoline Kl was wan contained at some Isolated siding according to the Interstate interstate Inter Inter- state commerce commission regulation regulation regula regula- tion that the railroad company compan failed tailed to do so o. o after atter it had harl been warned b by City Commissioner V V. C. C Dewitt that the tho car was wall leaking that the railroad company Tailed railed to deliver dell the car to the Ardmore Refining company tho the consignee after It had been urged to todo todo todo do so so and further that the railroads railroad's s failure to camp comply with these requests after atter It was discovered that the tank W was S leaking necessitated tc the tho action of or orthe the tho Ardmore Refining company compan in sending a 11 nan man to repair the tho leak heck which Is belle believed to have ha resulted in the ex explosion ex- ex and the loss loes of oC at lea least t forty forty- four lives Of Ot tho tour tort dead according to th the th police list tonight ht twenty five are white and nineteen ne negroes rot A numb num- num b bar r of or tho the bodies were burned beyond r zo r-zo r ion |