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After miners descended on the coal camp to forcibly expel Chinese laborers, a group of workers recounted the indignity of their forced departure.
“You bet your life we want to go, but we don't like to pay $2.50 each to ride to Tacoma in a box car.”
Thirty-two miners killed in a devastating explosion at the Carbonado coal mine.
“32 lives lost in an explosion at the Carbonado mine.”
Armed mobs force Chinese laborers to flee the Carbonado mines as the Anti-Chinese movement sweeps through the Puget Sound region.
“There were about 100 men, all armed to the teeth with rifles, shotguns, and revolvers.”
A judge appoints a receiver for two local coal mining companies following the death of their president and mounting unpaid wages.
“I asked for a receiver, he said, Because I believed it was the only thing to do in this case.”
A geological survey of the region's vast coal reserves reveals a rugged, difficult landscape that promises to drive the Pacific Northwest's future industrial independence.
“It is a huge reservoir of coal destined to be of great value to the Pacific Northwest when we commence making our own iron and smelting our silver ores.”
A local man is recovering from a mysterious gunshot wound after a violent, alcohol-fueled scuffle in a remote roadhouse between Carbonado and Wilkeson.
“There is bad blood between the Finns at Carbonado and Wilkeson and the other nationalities found in those towns, and whenever trouble arises in which a Finn is involved one can be sure that his countrymen will shield him if possible.”
After relocating his family to Carbonado for work, Charles J. Hanson perishes in a coal mine accident, leaving his wife and three children in a destitute state.
“The deceased leaves a wife and three small children in this city in a destitute condition.”
A target practice outing turns lethal when a accidental discharge claims the life of a 50-year-old miner.
“Meyman must have touched the trigger, for just as Hill reached for the gun it went off, the bullet striking him in the left breast and going direct to his heart.”
A miner in Carbonado taps into a prehistoric oven formed by a subterranean fire and ancient trees.
“This coke was at least five hundred years old... a surface fire many years ago had burned out the upper edge of the vein.”
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