St. Joseph's Hospital
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- Apr 16, 1891A Hospital Built for the Logging CampsEstablished by the Dominican Sisters, a new hospital treats the frequent, dangerous accidents of the Grays Harbor timber industry.Aberdeen, WA
- Aug 6, 1891The Necessity of Mercy: Aberdeen's First HospitalFounded by the Dominican Sisters, the new St. Joseph's Hospital arrived just in time to treat the frequent, brutal injuries sustained by loggers and mill workers in the surrounding timber country.Aberdeen, WA
- Aug 7, 1892Young Boy Killed by Electric StreetcarA tragic streetcar accident claims the life of an 11-year-old child in Fairhaven.Harris Street, Bellingham, WA
- Jul 17, 1894The Deputy Who Was 'More Dead Than Alive'—and Came BackShot in the back at North Yakima, Deputy U.S. Marshal Jack Jolly survived blood poisoning after a desperate abdominal operation in Tacoma.St. Joseph Medical Center, Tacoma, WA
- Aug 21, 1894He Missed the Masquerade Ball. She Filed for Divorce. He Took Morphine.Paul J. Ravage died at St. Joseph's Hospital after his wife divorced him over a forgotten night out in Spokane.Tacoma, WA
- May 11, 1895A Young Mother Died After Being Taken From the People Caring for HerCaroline Erickson, a Swedish immigrant who had just given birth, was removed to St. Joseph’s hospital against her will and died the next day; the woman who sheltered her blames the charity.Bellingham, WA
- Jul 14, 1899A Precarious Bicycle Ride Ends in Tragedy for a Tacoma MusicianA member of the Tacoma military band is recovering from a gunshot wound after a tumble from his bicycle caused his concealed revolver to discharge.Tacoma, WA
- Apr 4, 1904Logging Camp Dispute Leaves Man Near DeathA violent confrontation at a Kapowsin logging camp results in a shooting that hospitalizes one worker and lands another in jail.Kapowsin, WA
- Jan 26, 1909The Hospital Door Slams ShutA local doctor fights for hospital access after being barred from treating his patient at St. Joseph’s.Tacoma, WA
- Feb 2, 1909A Tacoma Nurse Shot a Stenographer, Then Drank Carbolic AcidGrant fired on Miss Thorp as she came home, fled to his sister’s house at 8320 South M Street, and died before the ambulance arrived. Miss Thorp was wounded in the shoulder.8320 South M St, Tacoma, WA
- Feb 6, 1909Shot by a Rejected Lover, Mabel Thorp Is Mending at St. Joseph'sTwo days after Ernest Grant shot her and then drank acid to kill himself, the young Tacoma woman is healing fast — the bullet wound, the paper reports, is nearly closed, but the shock is another matter.Tacoma, WA
- Feb 17, 1909One Punch in a Tacoma Saloon, and Three Days Later a Man Was DeadA Seattle commercial traveler needled a dog, then a bartender. He walked the streets with a fractured skull for three days before he finally asked for a hospital — and his last coherent claim was that he'd been sandbagged.Tacoma, WA
- Feb 24, 1909The Mysterious Burial on South O StreetA workman clearing land in Tacoma stumbled upon a bizarre scene: a well-dressed young man on a bicycle burying an infant in a shallow grave.Tacoma, WA