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A young man's accidental death in the woods is followed by the complete destruction of his family's home by fire, leaving the mourning parents with nothing.
“While the distracted parents and sympathizing neighbors were assembled at the house where the mutilated remains were lying, the dwelling of Mr. Booth... caught fire and burned to the ground.”
A landslide derails a Northern Pacific freight near Castle Rock, a British ship is blown across Tacoma bay, and the telegraph goes dead from Seattle south.
“A steamboat man says the last few days' storm has been the worst ever experienced on the Sound.”
A logger is struck and killed by a runaway shingle bolt, highlighting the extreme dangers of manual timber work.
“The chute is very steep, and by the time a bolt has gone 500 feet it has gained a velocity little short of a ball from a cannon.”
A set of skeletal remains, pinned under a decayed fir tree, suggests a lonely, long-forgotten death in the remote mountains.
“The lower limbs of a skeleton were found in the mountains... the upper portion... was probably carried away by wild animals.”
A toddler is maimed after an accident with a hatchet in a remote squatter camp.
“While playing with a hatchet the 4-year old son of a man named Couch, a squatter on unsurveyed land... chopped off two fingers of his 20-month-old sister.”
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