Tragedies Keep Piling Up in Tiny Okla. Town
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › June 13, 2011
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WELEETKA, Okla. - People in this small town once considered their community immune from the violence and misfortune of larger cities. Far from urban troubles, they enjoyed a seemingly safe landscape of green dotted with church steeples and laced with miles of back- country roads.
But Weleetka has suffered one tragedy after another: the unsolved murder of two little girls; a house fire that killed six people; the death of a beloved youth minister in an oil tank explosion; and a fire that tore through several downtown buildings, wiping out the popular caf and three other businesses - all in less than three years.See the full content of this document
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Tragedies Keep Piling Up in Tiny Okla. Town
Some residents have come to believe their town of barely 900 is cursed.
"It's heartbreaking to think we've come to big-city life," said libra...See the full content of this document
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