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Identifier
20124433
Description
Radio Antenna Falls on Taxi Cab; 2 Hurt Two escape serious injury as 360-foot radio tower topples onto car. A newly constructed 360-foot antenna snapped a guy wire Friday morning and crashed with a roar atop a taxi cab, injuring the cab driver and his wife and nearly crushing the cab into the ground. The inicident occured at the Fort Worth Cab & Baggage Company 1010 Stayton. Taken to Harris Hospital were the driver, Houston Fields, 27, of 4817 White Settlement Road, who suffered a leg injury, and his 24-year-old wife, who received hand and back injuries. She was termed in fair condition. He was not hospitalized. Charles Needham, a partner in the company, said the couple had driven to the company in their own car and Fields was then preparing to drive his wife to her place of employment in the cab. As the couple sat in the vehicle, letting the motor warm up, the guy wire broke and the tower crashed onto the cab's roof. Both the cab and the steel tower were totally demolished, he said. Needham estimated the cost of the tower at about $7,000. It didn't disrupt radio traffic for the company because the tower hadn't yet been put into use.
Archival Date
1958-12-26
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-180
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Taxi Cabs; Radio and television towers
Names
Fort Worth Cab & Baggage Company; Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital (Fort Worth, Tex.)
Subjects
Taxi Cabs; Radio and television towers