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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1888 | 1 |
| 1889 | 1 |
| 1892 | 6 |
| 1893 | 5 |
| 1894 | 2 |
| 1895 | 2 |
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- Tragedy at Lake Washington
A roller coaster at the end of the Madison street line collapsed, injuring a local carpenter and five young boys.
- The Philosophy of a Drunk-Roller
A notorious criminal known for robbing intoxicated men in the basement of the Albion block receives a harsh sentence after a blunt admission in court.
- Safety Lawsuit After Cable Coaster Mishap
A father files to represent his son in a personal injury lawsuit against the city after an accident on a roller coaster at the end of the Madison Street cable line.
- The Forgetful Pioneer: A Seattle Character Remembered
Before he became a fixture of the city's early business history, Isaiah Waddell was known for his generous spirit, his roller-boy antics at the local press, and a legendary inability to find his own place of business.
- Pitchfork Violence in the Harvest Field
A simple argument over a whiskey bottle near Pullman escalated into a violent assault with a pitchfork and a heavy roller.
- Inferno at the Spokane Falls
Four mills destroyed and workers missing after a massive industrial fire consumes the riverfront.
- A Midnight Knock, a Hidden Fortune, and a Brutal Beating on Vashon Island
Two men demand an old rancher's money, bind and club him, then ransack his cabin for a cache of cash. Seattle police arrest a suspect—and then the victim's wife.
- The Card Sharps Who Picked the Wrong Captain—and Sailed to Peru
Two Seattle gamblers went to Port Townsend to fleece the master of the British ship Dimsdale. He found out, shanghaied them both, and set sail for Callao.
- The $40 Forgery That Fooled Seattle’s Hardware Elite
A dashing stranger with a dark mustache and bare chest walks into W.P. Boyd & Co., flashes a forged check from the Seattle Hardware Company, and vanishes with $40 in cash—leaving behind only a single typo that saves the victim from total ruin.
- A Mill Worker's Narrow Escape
A standard day at the Port Blakeley mill turned catastrophic when a falling door triggered the log carriage, pinning a worker against the machinery.
- The Self-Taught Mechanic and the Frictionless Dream
A Seattle man is betting his future on a patented axle design, hoping to trade sawmill work for the life of an inventor.
- The Struggle Against the Hop Louse
Puyallup hop growers deploy new machinery and strategies to combat a devastating pest, signaling a shift in agricultural professionalism.
- Horton's Swift Curves Too Much for Seattle
Fort Gamble's veteran pitcher held Seattle to five hits at the Madison Street grounds, while second baseman Babbitt turned in a flawless fielding display.
- The Flour Trade's Pacific Ambitions
A Spokane miller dreams of bypassing San Francisco to ship Washington wheat directly to Central America.
- The Hop Louse War on the Green River
Farmers in the Puyallup and Green River valleys battle an infestation of hop aphids using new horse-powered sprayers.
- Forty Tons of Seattle Iron: Moran Brothers' Giant Pumps Head for the Dry Dock
The biggest centrifugal pumps ever cast on the Pacific Coast leave Moran Brothers' foundry for the government dry dock, three machines able to empty it in two hours.
- The Boomtown That Almost Wasn't
In 1888, the residents of Camas were aggressively lobbying to become the primary rail gateway to the Columbia River, betting their future on a bridge that would connect Seattle to Portland.