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  1. A Life Cut Short by the Rails

    A superintendent at the Stetson & Post Mill dies in a horrific workplace accident involving a runaway freight car.

    Jun 20, 1888The Seattle Post-IntelligencerFranklin, Black Diamond, King CountyWork & Pay · Disasters

  2. Black Diamond No. 12: A Mine Fire, a Sealed Slope, and 100 Men Idle

    Fire breaks out in the pump room of Black Diamond's No. 12 mine, forcing superintendent to seal the slope and steam the flames while a hundred miners are thrown out of work.

    Mar 5, 1895The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBlack Diamond, King CountyWork & Pay · Disasters

  3. Mining, Military Drills, and a Skunk's Demise in Black Diamond

    An 1885 dispatch from the Black Diamond coal fields details civic improvements, the formation of a local militia company, and a comical, if ill-fated, experiment involving a captive skunk.

    Jul 14, 1885Seattle Daily Post-IntelligencerBlack Diamond, King CountyBoom & Bust · Strange But True

  4. A Jury Called the Franklin Mine Fire Arson. Thirty-Seven Miners Were Already Dead.

    A coroner's jury found that someone deliberately set the fire that suffocated 37 workers in the Franklin mine. The only survivor described how one opened door and one stopped fan turned the gangway into a death trap.

    Aug 26, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerBlack Diamond, King CountyWork & Pay · Disasters

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