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After an assailant broke into her home, a mother fought for ten minutes to save herself and her child.
“She fought her assailant with such energy that she kept him at bay for ten minutes, suffering horrible maltreatment.”
A catastrophic landslide near Palmer halts travel for days as crews scramble to clear the Green River route.
“A mountain of earth and rock, unloosed by the rains, fell on the track.”
Two passenger trains collide near Palmer after failing to stop on a curve; hundreds of lives saved by low speeds.
“The east and west bound passengers rounded a curve and crashed together before the engines could be stopped.”
A convicted burglar leaps from a speeding train to freedom, only to be found hiding inside a hollowed-out log.
“You can't blame a fellow for trying to get away.”
A bold attempt to hold up a merchant in Palmer resulted in a violent confrontation where local citizens tracked and shot the masked intruders.
“The third was shot through the head, while trying to escape, and instantly killed.”
Two men accused of assaulting a storekeeper in Palmer are discharged after the victim fails to identify them; the judge notes the evidence was practically nonexistent.
“I would not convict a yellow dog on the evidence introduced.”
A rare, high-quality discovery of cannel coal on a local homestead sparks a $150,000 investment frenzy near the Northern Pacific tracks.
“If the Hagermanns had not been practical coal miners it is doubtful if the presence of coal would have been detected.”
A massive landslide near Palmer paralyzed Northern Pacific rail traffic, forcing stranded passengers to walk between trains.
“A strip of earth 300 feet long, twenty feet wide and varying from ten to fifteen feet in thickness, slid down upon the tracks at that point.”
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