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- Great Northern Train Derails into the Wenatchee River
A passenger train falls into a washed-out track near Leavenworth, leaving three dead and passengers clinging to life in the mountain currents.
- The Town That Was Blown Up to Save Itself
Leavenworth citizens dynamited the Cascade Hotel to halt a massive inferno, narrowly avoiding a secondary disaster.
- Leavenworth's Flaming Cycle
For the third time in seven years, a massive fire tears through Leavenworth's business district, leaving town leaders to grapple with a lack of water, no fire department, and the question of how to rebuild from nothing.
- The Political Price of Panama
When Democratic senators tried to expose the secrets behind the Panama Canal, they inadvertently revealed a web of European intrigue that bolstered the case for American intervention.
- The Town That Was Too Indifferent for Fire Protection
After a devastating blaze nearly wiped out a city block, the Leavenworth Echo urged residents to trade frontier luck for modern infrastructure.
- The Nameless Man in the Snow
A railroad worker is killed in the deep drifts near Leavenworth, leaving behind only a name he likely invented and a slip of paper with a California address.
- The Town That Said No to Itself
When the Great Northern Railway’s representative warned against incorporation, Leavenworth’s citizens voted down their own cityhood to stay in the good graces of the railroad boss.
- The Young Newsie of Leavenworth
A ten-year-old boy, known for his relentless work ethic delivering papers through the deep winter snows, passes away after a two-week battle with diphtheria.
- Taming the Wenatchee River
Engineers successfully close the gap in a massive new dam, marking a turning point in the effort to harness the region's wild water for industry.
- Trackside Nap Leads to Injury
A teenager working for the Great Northern Railway was struck by a train while waiting for a shift change near Leavenworth.
- The Diphtheria Outbreak at Leavenworth's Schoolhouse
When an infectious disease forced the closure of the local school, the town’s newspaper demanded accountability, questioning why infected children were permitted in the classroom.
- The Railroad That Burned the Forest—and Paid the Bill
In 1908, locomotives and clearing crews set eleven fires in the Wenatchee National Forest. The Great Northern Railway’s $2,312.62 payment was an early reckoning for industrial damage to public land.
- A Brick in a Leavenworth Street Ends a Railroad Man's Life
An engine wiper is jailed at Wenatchee for the drunken-brawl killing of a Great Northern locomotive engineer who leaves four children behind.