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192 stories matching ice
- 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.
- Dockside Misadventure for Ship Captain
Captain Elnathan Lewis suffers a brutal fall on the ice-slicked logs of Seattle’s waterfront.
- Sunday Refreshments at the Yesler Pleasure Garden
A look at the popular 1870s recreational spot where Seattle residents found relief, music, and ice cream on their days off.
- The Lights Go Out in Oroville
A winter cold snap leaves the town in darkness after ice dams the river, testing the limits of early infrastructure.
- Firefighters Battle Freezing Hose at 1893 Blaze
When an arctic blast hit Seattle, firemen responding to a blaze returned to their stations as living statues of ice.
- The River That Walked
When the Columbia River froze solid, Hanford residents bypassed the ferry and walked across the ice to their ranches.
- The Steam-Heated Ice Caves of Mount Rainier
A mountaineering party discovers the natural comfort of volcanic heat at 14,000 feet, sleeping in ice chambers kept warm by the mountain's own breath.
- The Great Log Jam: A Man Survives a Frozen River Nightmare
W.H. McKern of Boston arrives in Seattle after a harrowing journey through ice-choked waters and frozen rail lines, offering a rare glimpse into the brutal winter conditions gripping the Pacific Northwest.
- Tragedy on the Lake: Three Snohomish Boys Fall Through Ice
A winter afternoon skating excursion turns fatal for two young local boys.
- The Hard Luck of the Northern Mines
When the Snohomish River ran too shallow for navigation, hopeful miners found themselves stranded, forced to trade their picks for cobbler's benches.
- Tragedy at the Waldron Fire
A Fairhaven woman dies after slipping on ice during a blaze.
- The Trinity Parish Tea Party at Yesler’s Hall
A multi-day social event brings the city’s ‘local talent’ together for performances and ice cream to fund a new church organ.
- The Yakima River’s Winter Rampage
Ice jams cause the Yakima River to rise eight feet in hours, devastating local sheep flocks and prompting emergency concern.
- The Seattle Winter That Shocked New York
When a Seattle colonel sent a bouquet of fresh January flowers to a snow-shrouded New York editor, the gesture became a national curiosity about Washington Territory's mild climate.
- The Unlucky Wagoner of Tacoma Avenue
A local delivery worker endures a harrowing accident on an unfinished street, leaving him battered but back to business by the following day.
- The Great Freeze of 1883
Seattle shivers as a record-breaking cold snap turns the bay to ice and shutters local mills.
- The Great Strawberry Heist of 1885
After the ladies of the Trinity Guild finished their social, two Seattle boys broke into the hall to steal the remaining ice cream and strawberries.
- Political Oratory on the Grange Lawn
Sixteen candidates for office take to the Finley schoolhouse lawn for a polite political debate and an ice cream social.
- The Great Ice Cream Heist at Whitman College
Alumni graduation banquet turns into a local scandal when undergrads hijack the dessert.
- The Great Meat Safe: How Seattle’s Fishermen Could Have Rivalled London’s Beef Trade
A July 1876 dispatch from the Agricultural Gazette reveals that fresh American beef was successfully shipped to London in refrigerated holds. The Daily Intelligencer editor sees a parallel opportunity for Puget Sound halibut, which currently spoils before reaching San Francisco markets.
- When the Ice Broke: Newport's Steamboats Reconnect the Pend Oreille
With the river finally open to Box Canyon, two navigation companies coordinated schedules at Newport, linking trains, mail and lumber camps to the upper Pend Oreille.
- The Tent City Spokesman
Recalling the winter of 1909, when the White Bluffs Spokesman was forced to publish out of a canvas tent to keep the town's news flowing.
- The Ice Water Gambit: How a Seattle Drifter Was Framed for Theft
A local vagrant was doused in freezing water and coerced into a false confession by a cunning runner, only to be caught red-handed on Third Street.
- The River Wakes Up—and Newport's Steamboats Go Adrift
After three weeks frozen, Pend Oreille navigation resumes, but a broken boom and an ice floe send the Metaline and Fram downstream and leave the Ruth without a dock.
- 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.