The Sunday Oklahoman, March 17, 1946, page 1:
City Engineer Train Fire Hero--A Frisco train engineer who died of injuries received Saturday morning when his locomotive crashed into a loaded gasoline transport truck at Bristow, was hailed as a hero late Saturday by passengers who emerged unscathed by the accident. The engineer, L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17, was credited with seeing his train safely through the fierce gasoline blaze before jumping from the locomotive cab in a mass of flames. Wham died two hours later at a Bristow hospital. None of the more than 50 passengers in the two coaches in the train were hurt in the crash and resulting fire that took the lives of three men and left one critically injured (who later died)...
The Oklahoman, Tuesday, March 19, 1946: L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday in the Memory Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home. Interment Rose Hill.
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children:
Donald M. Wham 1909-1957 OKC
Helen Wham Beaver 1926-1986 Eugene OR
City Engineer Train Fire Hero--A Frisco train engineer who died of injuries received Saturday morning when his locomotive crashed into a loaded gasoline transport truck at Bristow, was hailed as a hero late Saturday by passengers who emerged unscathed by the accident. The engineer, L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17, was credited with seeing his train safely through the fierce gasoline blaze before jumping from the locomotive cab in a mass of flames. Wham died two hours later at a Bristow hospital. None of the more than 50 passengers in the two coaches in the train were hurt in the crash and resulting fire that took the lives of three men and left one critically injured (who later died)...
The Oklahoman, Tuesday, March 19, 1946: L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday in the Memory Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home. Interment Rose Hill.
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children:
Donald M. Wham 1909-1957 OKC
Helen Wham Beaver 1926-1986 Eugene OR
The Sunday Oklahoman, March 17, 1946, page 1:
City Engineer Train Fire Hero--A Frisco train engineer who died of injuries received Saturday morning when his locomotive crashed into a loaded gasoline transport truck at Bristow, was hailed as a hero late Saturday by passengers who emerged unscathed by the accident. The engineer, L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17, was credited with seeing his train safely through the fierce gasoline blaze before jumping from the locomotive cab in a mass of flames. Wham died two hours later at a Bristow hospital. None of the more than 50 passengers in the two coaches in the train were hurt in the crash and resulting fire that took the lives of three men and left one critically injured (who later died)...
The Oklahoman, Tuesday, March 19, 1946: L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday in the Memory Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home. Interment Rose Hill.
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children:
Donald M. Wham 1909-1957 OKC
Helen Wham Beaver 1926-1986 Eugene OR
City Engineer Train Fire Hero--A Frisco train engineer who died of injuries received Saturday morning when his locomotive crashed into a loaded gasoline transport truck at Bristow, was hailed as a hero late Saturday by passengers who emerged unscathed by the accident. The engineer, L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17, was credited with seeing his train safely through the fierce gasoline blaze before jumping from the locomotive cab in a mass of flames. Wham died two hours later at a Bristow hospital. None of the more than 50 passengers in the two coaches in the train were hurt in the crash and resulting fire that took the lives of three men and left one critically injured (who later died)...
The Oklahoman, Tuesday, March 19, 1946: L. E. Wham, 425 SE 17. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday in the Memory Chapel of Hunter Funeral Home. Interment Rose Hill.
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children:
Donald M. Wham 1909-1957 OKC
Helen Wham Beaver 1926-1986 Eugene OR
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