C. C. Todd
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- Aug 25, 1894Thirty-Seven Miners Died Because They Stayed to Fight the FireA blaze in the Franklin coal mine sent smoke through the gangways on Aug. 24, 1894, killing 37 men and boys who thought they had time to escape.Black Diamond, WA
- Aug 26, 1894Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From SafetyAn 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.Black Diamond, WA
- Jan 4, 1895The Ballot Box Was Too Full in FranklinPopulists brought witnesses to court to show that votes in Franklin precinct were pushed, shaken and crammed into an overflowing box—irregularity, they argued, even if not outright fraud.Seattle, WA