Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Company
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- Oct 11, 1892Railroad Giant Swallows Sound Steamship LineNorthern Pacific Railroad absorbs the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship Company to consolidate management and slash operating costs.Tacoma, WA
- Oct 20, 1892Bold Daylight Heist at the Puget Sound & Alaska Steamship CompanyA safe on the Yesler wharf is emptied of over $170 in cash during the lunch hour.Seattle, WA
- Jan 12, 1895The One-Ton Ring That Bore Three Tons—and Left a Worker ParalyzedThomas O’Leary was repairing the City of Kingston when a bad iron ring gave way. He sued for $2,500, bedridden from the chest down, as doctors called him a cripple for life.Seattle, WA
- Apr 27, 1899The Day the Kingston Died: A Steamship Collision and the Pilot’s TalePilot Gatter recounts the terrifying moments when the steamer Glenogle collided with the passenger liner Kingston in Puget Sound, sending hundreds of feet of steel into the water.Tacoma, WA