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623 stories matching cold
- The Cold Transit of the Ching Wo
Elderly Chinese passengers endure miserable, freezing conditions on a freight steamer as they seek a final journey home.
- The Price of a Cold Commute
After Mintie Carver died of pneumonia following a frigid, unheated train journey, her estate won a lawsuit against the Northern Pacific—a verdict the court refused to overturn.
- The Cold Night’s Lesson: A Dream of Seattle Charity
In an 1889 holiday-season allegory, a young girl is taken on a spectral tour of Seattle's elite charity ball, only to discover the cruel indifference hidden beneath the city’s performative philanthropy.
- The Gallows Awaits a Pullman Murderer
A jury in Colfax has returned a guilty verdict for the cold-blooded murder of William T. Higgins, leading to a stark final judgment from the bench.
- Quarantined and Cold
A citizen accuses county authorities of abandoning families to suffer in the winter cold during a smallpox outbreak.
- The Unkind Spring of 1892
A biting cold snap across the Washington territory freezes out the fruit harvest and stalls farm work.
- Ex-Fire Chief James Murphy Shoots Saloon Owner Phil Dawe
A former Seattle fire official guns down a saloon owner in a cold-blooded dispute over free drinks, sparking outrage in the city’s lower wards.
- The Sniper of Post Street Bridge
A prominent Seattle contractor narrowly survives a cold-blooded shooting as he walks home in the dark.
- The Great Freeze of 1883
Seattle shivers as a record-breaking cold snap turns the bay to ice and shutters local mills.
- The Brutal Winter of 1893
A historic freeze and heavy snows devastate livestock across the region, while Seattle's own marginalized residents struggle to survive the record-breaking cold.
- The Ice-Cold Escape From the Myloemene
A sick sailor refused the ship's hospital, a Dane swam two miles ashore, and six crewmen forfeited their pay to desert the British bark in Port Angeles harbor.
- The Hired Assassin: A Hotelkeeper's Plot Against Mrs. May North
A signed confession in the Spokane county jail reveals that the shooting of a woman at Elk, Washington, was no random attack but a cold-blooded murder plot arranged two months in advance.
- The Great Tacoma Freeze of 1909
A record-breaking cold wave and gale-force winds rattle the city, freezing pipes and sending houseboats adrift.
- The Case for Cold Storage
As fruit production booms, growers look to Kennewick for the model of success.
- The Deckhand Who Went Overboard in Box Canyon
Painting the steamer Metaline, Frank Spaulding missed a grip rail and plunged into the cold, swift Pend Oreille River—then nearly cramped before a crewman fished him out with a pole.
- Brutal Murder of Two Settlers
A Canadian man and his sons arrested for the cold-blooded killing of two men traveling to Seattle to provide evidence in a murder case.
- Power Outage Leaves Richland in the Dark
A brutal cold snap knocks out electricity, forcing residents back to candles and oil lamps.
- The Price of a Cold Spring
Unseasonable weather caused Kennewick’s strawberry harvest to fall short of demand, costing local growers thousands in lost revenue.
- A Sudden Freeze Caught Newport With Its Pipes Down — and Its Engines Too
The first hard cold of November burst water pipes, temporarily shut the Jurgens mill and damaged gasoline engines at the telephone office and The Miner.
- A Cold Rescue at Cow Point
Two local men are saved from a freezing death after their canoe capsizes near the mouth of the harbor.
- Accused Killer Kid Wilson Evades Capture in Wenatchee Country
A man who claimed self-defense in the shooting of Pat Cooley is now a fugitive, and deputies have issued a descriptive circular.
- Betrayal and Bloodshed on Whidbey Island
A ranching partnership ends in a fatal, cold-blooded ambush near Useless Bay.
- The Sheriff’s Cold Night and A Surprise Marriage
After evading capture in a dramatic escape from the Moxee, a fugitive is arrested and promptly married by the local justice.
- The Cold Shoulder for Bryan in the Palouse
A local editor dismisses the national hype surrounding William Jennings Bryan's campaign visit to Colfax.
- Diphtheria Closes School in Walla Walla
A local report highlights economic tension and a health crisis in Walla Walla, while a child in Waitsburg narrowly avoids a poisoning tragedy.
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- The Great Freeze of 1872
When an arctic blast paralyzed Puget Sound, turning the Columbia River to ice and testing the grit of Seattle's early pioneers.
- The Frozen Journey: A Woman’s Fight Against the Railway
After contracting pneumonia on an unheated train, a 55-year-old passenger sues the Northern Pacific Railroad for $8,000, bringing a poignant case of corporate negligence to a Seattle federal courtroom.
- The Brutal Toll of a Pacific Northwest Winter
A traveler, lost in the woods near Seattle, fights for his life after days of exposure in sub-zero conditions.
- Late-Night Musings in the Snow
A quiet, philosophical reflection on the difficulty of focusing one’s mind during a winter night in Yakima.
- Seattle’s Surprisingly Mild Winter of 1876
While outsiders imagined the Pacific Northwest as a frozen, inhospitable tundra, locals were enjoying a 'genial' December filled with blooming garden flowers.
- A Smallpox Quarantine in a Snowbound Hotel
A burst pipe left six quarantined smallpox patients without water as Tacoma's snowstorm shut down plumbers, coal deliveries and the Northern Pacific.