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2 stories matching tombston

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  1. The Suicide Machine: An Olympia Pioneer's Meticulous Last Act

    A 70-year-old bachelor rigged a gun, a bench and a string in his shed, left a note on a blackboard, and arranged his own death with chilling precision.

    Sep 13, 1894The Seattle Post-IntelligencerWest Side, OlympiaStrange But True

  2. 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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