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| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 42 |
| 1877 | 22 |
| 1878 | 15 |
| 1879 | 1 |
| 1880 | 7 |
| 1882 | 6 |
| 1883 | 26 |
| 1884 | 15 |
| 1885 | 14 |
| 1886 | 13 |
| 1887 | 10 |
| 1888 | 11 |
| 1889 | 55 |
| 1891 | 14 |
| 1892 | 73 |
| 1893 | 93 |
| 1894 | 93 |
| 1895 | 92 |
| 1897 | 1 |
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| 1899 | 35 |
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| 1904 | 5 |
| 1909 | 3 |
| 1910 | 1 |
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| 1924 | 2 |
| 1928 | 2 |
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- Critics Question Government’s Failure to Save Stranded Mariners
A local editor slams the inaction of the revenue cutter Wolcott after a sealing schooner wrecks near Vancouver Island.
- The Bank President and the Cashier’s Scuffle
A power struggle at the Seattle Dime Savings bank leads to a public street fight over the company vault.
- Fire on the Hill: A Seattle Neighborhood in Peril
A mid-day blaze destroys homes and leaves a neighbor seriously injured, highlighting the isolation and scarcity of water in the city's expanding residential districts.
- The Tragic End of the Steamer Fanny Lake
A boiler explosion leaves the familiar local craft a ruined hulk on the waterfront.
- The Knife in the Carriage
A young woman’s train ride turns into a life-or-death encounter with an escaped asylum patient.
- The Unraveling of the Washington Savings Bank
Facing a stagnant real estate market and steady deposit withdrawals, a downtown bank opts for an orderly closure to protect its depositors.
- After the Clallam Went Down, a Seattle Man Asked Why No Puget Sound Steamer Had a Lifeboat That Floated
J. Walton wrote to the president and to Congress with a plain charge: not one passenger steamer on the Sound is properly equipped to save lives — and in two round trips to Nome he never once saw a fire drill.
- Bank Records Lifted the Shadow of Murder From Louis Kiendl
A Seattle suspect in the killing of a mother and her baby traced the $200 found in his trunk to savings accounts in California.
- Unnamed Drifter Saves Girl from Drowning
A homeless man risked his life to pull a young girl from the water near the Great Northern tracks, only to walk away and spend the reward money on liquor.
- The Lawyer Who Shaved His Beard for a Thief
In a dramatic courtroom gamble, a defense attorney shaved his own beard to demonstrate how easily witnesses might be mistaken in identifying an accused horse thief.
- The Miracle Pill That Saved a Patient
A desperate physician recounts how, after failing to save a dying patient, he turned to 'sugar pills' in a moment of pure professional panic.
- Ballard Goes Dark
Facing a fiscal crisis, the Ballard City Council votes to cut off the neighborhood's electric streetlights to save $250 a month.
- Resuscitated from the Lake Union Depths
A milling company worker narrowly survives a terrifying drowning incident after a log turns under him in the freezing waters.
- The Night the 'Mad House' Burned Down
A suspicious blaze destroys a landmark building in Seattle, forcing local citizens to scramble to save the nearby gas works from the encroaching flames.
- Suspicion of Arson After Slaughter House Fire
An early morning fire on the Beach road leaves a local meat business in ruins, with the owner offering a bounty for the arsonist.
- The Price of Saving the Country
In 1880 Seattle, a local paper captures a cynical, all-too-familiar conversation between two men on the street regarding the true value of political engagement.
- The Avarice of the Soil
An 1871 lecture on why farmers must stop starving themselves to save a few pennies.
- The Nun on the Fire Escape
A delirious man, a locked bedroom, and a nun’s desperate climb up a high-rise fire escape to deliver medicine.
- Seattle’s Sewers Running Into a Budget Deficit
City Engineer R.H. Thomson warns that original appropriations are insufficient to complete critical sewer tunnel work, suggesting design modifications to save money.
- A Near-Death Experience on Lake Union
Three young men capsized in a pleasure boat, saved by the quick thinking of two local boaters who paddled out to rescue them.
- The Strange Tale of Henry B. Mayo
A Seattle death, a suicide note, and a landlord's theory that a man took his own life to save a condemned killer from the gallows.
- Bears Saved from Madison Street Blaze
A photograph gallery fire triggers a frantic rescue of two captive bears at the Lake Washington terminus of the cable line.
- The Labor of Your First Thousand
A classic 1876 editorial from the Seattle Daily Intelligencer on the moral and industrial value of earning one's keep from scratch.
- A Hero’s Death and a City’s Charity
A city employee dies saving a child, leaving a struggling family destitute in a cold, unforgiving city.
- The Great Seattle Printing Conspiracy
When the Dispatch editor exposed a 'plunder' scheme by rival newspapers to inflate public printing costs, he revealed the messy, graft-filled reality of 1878 municipal administration.