Photographs

These photographs were taken between March 19th and March 22nd, and are from the Associated Press archives.

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Left: Rescue workers probe the twisted steel skeleton of the building.
Right: Oil field huskies, who rushed from the surrounding country, are shown amid the ruins.

  
Left: Heavy tile bricks from walls were blown into classrooms.
Right: Walls of one section still standing on March 20th.

  
Left: Ruins of the school on March 20th.
Right: Ridge of earth shown in air photo, March 20th, indicates foundation line of the school. Debris in background was quickly cleared by thousands of volunteer workers who pitched into the task of removing the crushed bodies of the school children.


W.C. Shaw, superintendent of the Consolidated School in which his son and hundreds of other youngsters lost their lives, sits at home on March 19th, lost in thought. His face was cut and his hand injured in the blast which wrecked the school. Relatives had a hard time keeping him from wandering aimlessly about the ruins. He said he feared he was partly responsible for the disaster because of a gas line he had a janitor cap the previous week.