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A summer resort's peace is shattered by drunken railroaders, prompting a violent confrontation at the hotel.
“They wanted to fight and were accommodated. Frank Rogers smashed one of them in the jaw, and you could hear the man's teeth rattle.”
A lime cargo catches fire, a rudder snaps, and eight sailors are rescued off Grays Harbor moments before their ship goes down.
“From the deck of the sealer Capt. Brown saw his ship give her last lurch into the sea.”
Lieut. Crosby and four crewmen were lost when their survey whaleboat capsized off Westport; only one body has been recovered.
“One of the sailors, when exhausted, merely called to his comrades: 'Good-bye, boys,' and sank.”
A sawmill accident on the lower Columbia claims the life of a British immigrant.
“The saw was running at full speed when he fell upon it; he was thrown to the ceiling and fell again on it.”
A 106-foot wreck appears on the beach with no identification, leaving locals to speculate on its long, lonely voyage.
“The fact that little wreckage save the stump of a mast, her stem and centerboard, have come ashore... goes to prove that she was not wrecked on these shores but has been a derelict for many months.”
Chehalis County journalists gather to form an association and pledge an end to local mudslinging.
“While no one need expect that every editor considers his contemporary an angel, it will probably be at least a week or more before one says anything really mean about another.”
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