George Roberts
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- Feb 14, 1895The Willapa Prepares for the NorthA new steamship line launches its pioneer vessel to capture the growing trade between Puget Sound and Alaska.Seattle, WA
- Mar 4, 1895Loaded to the Rails: Seattle Sends Its First Alaska SteamerCrowds packed Schwabacher’s wharf as the Willapa left for the north with 79 passengers, horses, sleds and more freight than it could carry.Seattle, WA
- Apr 9, 1895A Breath of Fire-Damp Killed Twenty-Three Blue Canyon MinersA coal-mine explosion near Lake Whatcom wiped out nearly an entire shift just before it was due to change, leaving only two survivors to tell what happened underground.Bellingham, WA
- Apr 11, 1895A Town Buries Its MinersFuneral services for the Blue Canyon mine disaster dead fill Bay View cemetery as a coroner's jury begins asking whether enough air—and enough regulation—reached the men underground.Bellingham, WA
- Apr 12, 1895Twenty-Three Dead, and a Jury Clears the CompanyAn inquest into the explosion that killed twenty-three miners at the Blue Canyon mine blames gas and dust — and flatly exonerates the company of any fault.Bellingham, WA
- Apr 14, 1895Twenty-Three Miners Died in a Nearly Undamaged MineInspector Edmunds told a Seattle paper that the Blue Canyon explosion was one of the strangest disasters he had ever seen: the mine was barely damaged, yet 23 men were dead, most killed by concussion and gas.Bellingham, WA
- Jul 16, 1903The Long Road Back to San FranciscoAfter months of legal battles and a literal tug-of-war, a man wanted in California is finally extradited.Tacoma, WA