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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1854 | 62 |
| 1858 | 23 |
| 1859 | 47 |
| 1860 | 24 |
| 1861 | 99 |
| 1862 | 87 |
| 1863 | 69 |
| 1864 | 32 |
| 1865 | 11 |
| 1871 | 11 |
| 1872 | 140 |
| 1876 | 802 |
| 1877 | 676 |
| 1878 | 526 |
| 1879 | 64 |
| 1880 | 180 |
| 1882 | 130 |
| 1883 | 852 |
| 1884 | 428 |
| 1885 | 838 |
| 1886 | 492 |
| 1887 | 484 |
| 1888 | 440 |
| 1889 | 1,324 |
| 1890 | 287 |
| 1891 | 1,072 |
| 1892 | 2,758 |
| 1893 | 2,670 |
| 1894 | 1,995 |
| 1895 | 1,623 |
| 1896 | 2 |
| 1897 | 52 |
| 1898 | 181 |
| 1899 | 436 |
| 1900 | 114 |
| 1902 | 34 |
| 1903 | 1,307 |
| 1904 | 1,104 |
| 1905 | 124 |
| 1907 | 44 |
| 1908 | 289 |
| 1909 | 1,366 |
| 1910 | 277 |
| 1911 | 160 |
| 1912 | 73 |
| 1914 | 259 |
| 1915 | 299 |
| 1916 | 530 |
| 1917 | 321 |
| 1918 | 44 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1922 | 14 |
| 1923 | 175 |
| 1924 | 151 |
| 1925 | 62 |
| 1928 | 12 |
| 1929 | 6 |
25,688 stories
- The Tragedy of Ursula Unfag
In a sensational murder trial, defense attorneys reveal a harrowing cycle of abuse and exploitation behind the death of a local editor.
- Vigilante Fury Follows Oakesdale Arson
After a suspicious fire destroys a row of businesses, Oakesdale residents threaten to lynch a Chinese resident previously evicted from the property.
- The Minister Who Faced Down the Mob
How a local pastor stood against the 1886 anti-Chinese riots and became a target of the city's fury.
- City Treasurer Decamps as Embezzlement Scandal Rocks Seattle
City Treasurer Adolph Krug has fled the city after an audit revealed a $20,000 deficit in his accounts.
- Betrayal in the Coal Fields
Widows and orphans lose their savings as a local bank collapses under the weight of alleged fraud.
- The Battle Over Wenatchee Fishing Rights
A treaty-based reservation for indigenous fishing rights sparks a localized protest from settlers and speculators.
- The Battle for the Tide Lands
A multi-million dollar legal dispute threatens to redefine ownership of Seattle’s valuable shoreline.
- The Great Northern Railroad Strike
A historic federation of railway workers defies their own union leaders to launch a massive wildcat strike across the Pacific Northwest.
- The Great Northern Strike Ends
After an eighteen-day standstill that paralyzed the Northwest, President James J. Hill and the American Railway Union reach an uneasy truce.
- The Great Northwest Flood of 1894
Historic deluges across the Columbia, Fraser, and Skagit river valleys have paralyzed rail travel and left thousands displaced from their homes.
- The Great 1894 Flood Devastates the Pacific Northwest
As rivers finally begin to recede, towns from Conconully to Portland recount the total destruction of homes, bridges, and livelihoods in the wake of the historic spring freshet.
- The Ghost of a Mob in Colfax
Decades after a violent public lynching left a permanent stain on the community, the citizens of Colfax still wake to find ominous reminders scrawled on the sidewalk.
- The Columbia River in Upheaval
Unprecedented flooding devastates communities along the Columbia River, washing away homes, bridges, and livelihoods.
- Tornados and Vanishing Towns: The Floods of 1894
A voluntary weather observer describes an unprecedented summer of destruction in Okanogan County, where tornados flattened 'shacks' and the Columbia River rose to record heights.
- The Pullman Strike Paralyses Washington’s Rails
Striking workers at the Northern Pacific Railroad refuse to handle Pullman cars, trapping Eastern Washington militia in Ellensburg and halting traffic across the state.
- The Great Railway Strike Hits Seattle
Northern Pacific officials push trains through picket lines as rail unions and the ARU prepare for a showdown.
- When the Great Railroad Strike Reached Seattle
In July 1894 the Pullman boycott finally tied up the Lake Shore road in Seattle — local switchmen walked out in sympathy, and the company answered with firings, Winchester-armed deputies and a federal judge.
- Troops Take the Yards as Seattle Braces for the Great Railroad Strike
Regular artillery, deputy marshals and a nervous militia dig in across the city — even hauling the state's rifles up to the university for safekeeping — as the 1894 Pullman boycott reaches Puget Sound.
- The Franklin Mine Fire: Thirty-Seven Dead, Not a Scratch on Them
A fire in breast sixty-two traps miners between flame and return airway; bodies are laid in rows as Seattle sends a special train.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From Safety
An 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.
- A Mountain of Coffins: Franklin Buries Its Miners
After a mine fire killed 37 men, the coal town of Franklin held a day of funerals—five graves at Black Diamond, three Italian miners on a hillside, and widows whose grief doctors feared would kill them.
- Chinatown Destroyed by Suspicious Blaze in Tacoma
Twenty-five buildings consumed in a massive fire; arson suspected in the downtown quarter.
- Chief Moses Agrees to Relocate
A landmark settlement in Washington Territory promises to open two million acres to settlement.
- Seattle’s Late-Night Policing of Indigenous Women
A 1873 ordinance allowed police to criminalize Indigenous women as 'vagrants' for simply being out after dark.
- The Great Seattle Land Office Fire
A devastating blaze sweeps through downtown, destroying irreplaceable public records and a local church.