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An eye-witness account of a harrowing escape during the Puget Sound Indian War, describing a fatal skirmish, a desperate trek through winter swamps, and the loss of Colonel A. Benton Moses.
“We were compelled to remain in the deep mud and water until long after dark, all the while shaking with cold so much that our cartridges rattled like cow bells.”
Saboteurs remove a rail from the Northern Pacific track near Buckley, nearly killing hundreds in a deliberate act of destruction.
“It was simply a miracle that several were not killed as it was.”
After rail saboteurs derailed an overland train near Buckley, the railroad management has authorized a massive reward to hunt down the culprits.
“Lawlessness of this kind must be broken up and stamped out at whatever cost.”
A town in shock as two men posing as bankers abscond with the life savings of farmers and laborers.
“The town is now left in a hard shape financially. Many farmers had their mite on deposit... thus the loss naturally falls on those who are least able to bear it.”
A lumber town’s business district is reduced to ash after a mill fire jumps the tracks and consumes an entire city block.
“Little effort was made to quench the fire after it got fairly started. Hundreds of men carried goods to a place of safety.”
A fugitive banker who vanished with $30,000 in depositor funds is captured in his hometown after a cross-country manhunt.
“Kann has worked the confidence game to perfection, and were a record of his dealings known it would probably be shown that he and his confederates have embezzled more than one fortune.”
After wrecking a bank and fleeing to Maryland, local officials are still waiting for word on whether the disgraced financier will face justice.
“The residents of Buckley generally believe he has fled to some foreign country and will never be brought to justice.”
A Northern Pacific train heading to Tacoma crashes near Buckley, destroying mail and express cars by fire, though passengers report no major injuries.
“It is considered a miracle that some of the passengers were not killed, or that the cars and locomotive were not crushed.”
A wave of suspicious midnight blazes targets the vital lumber infrastructure of Pierce County, leaving mill owners and workers on edge.
“The fire is said to have been of incendiary origin.”
A constable brought 73-year-old Neil McEachron from Buckley for an insanity hearing after he bought 28 loaves of bread.
“The old man presented a sad spectacle, with hoary hair and trembling hands, as he answered the questions of the doctors examining him.”
A young orphan and his teenage bride-to-be were initially turned away from the marriage license window, but a creative legal intervention allowed the wedding to proceed.
“In a moment, however, the problem was solved and the party wended its way to the prosecutor's office, where Deputy Bell appointed one of the party legal guardian over McDaniel.”
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