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| Year | Stories |
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| 1908 | 3 |
| 1909 | 4 |
| 1910 | 1 |
8 stories matching bone
- The Axe Slip That May Have Cost a Newport Boy His Foot
Will Scott, 15, was helping his father at a Jackson wood camp near Penrith when the axe glanced from a log, severing cords and crushing bone in his foot. Dr. Phillips dressed the wound.
- A Woman, a Gate, and a Smoking Log Pile in the Huckleberry Mountains
Two prominent Stevens County farmers and a drifter called 'Tennessee Jack' are jailed after two hunters stumble on charred human bones nine miles east of Cedonia.
- A Dangerous Fall at the Calispel Spur
A railroad inspector suffers a broken collarbone after stepping off a train in the dark and falling twenty feet into the river bank.
- A Leap of Faith from the Moving Train
A traveling salesman’s confusion over a train’s route led to a painful injury near the Pine Street crossing.
- Crushed Under a Falling Tier of Ties at the Newport Docks
A Northern Mercantile superintendent is pinned by heavy timbers while unloading a waterlogged barge, his back lacerated and left foot crushed.
- Two Gun Mishaps in One Week Leave Newport Men Wounded
A hunter swapping rifles and a 10-year-old boy with a .22 both shot themselves in the foot. Both were brought to Newport for treatment.
- Eight Hundred Men, a Tunnel, and a Bridge
The I.W.N. extension put hundreds of laborers to work on grades, bridges and the Blueslide tunnel—while a bridge contractor was hurt by a falling timber.
- Blueslide Breakthrough: The Tunnel That Pushed the Idaho & Washington Northern Through
After months of hand drilling, a crew of more than 500 blows a heading through the Blueslide tunnel — while the railroad’s general manager limps on crutches after a freak construction accident.