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Federal officials move to secure the mountain's forests and glaciers for public preservation, setting the stage for a new national treasure.
“This combination of mountain, forest and sea form together an unsurpassed panorama of the beauties of nature.”
Superintendent Schwagerl sounds the alarm on tourists burning ancient trees for fun and the unchecked slaughter of wildlife in the new mountain reserve.
“This fact induced some of Tacoma's visiting citizens, as reported by settlers and tourists, to set fire to them, merely to enjoy the momentary rocket conflagration.”
A foreman dies in a heroic but doomed effort to rescue his colleagues trapped by an explosion of fire damp deep beneath the earth.
“Foreman William Dinkler remained to search for Norell and when another rescue party came back, Dinkler was dead, having suffocated with fire damp in his search.”
An early mountaineer recounts a harrowing, freezing night spent huddled inside a steam-carved cavern near the summit.
“The wind howled and roared and poured down the mountain with a fury that made us long for the warm blankets we left in camp.”
After four days, searchers reach the body of a miner trapped by a gas explosion.
“Hope of finding the entombed man alive was abandoned Monday, when the rescue party was driven back by gas.”
A mill hand arrested for poaching in the national reserve might walk free because the law governing the park lacks a penalty clause.
“The law of 1899 appears to have not provided any penalty for its infraction.”
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