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| Year | Stories |
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| 1892 | 2 |
| 1893 | 4 |
| 1894 | 3 |
| 1895 | 1 |
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- The Dangers of the Donkey Engine
A logger suffers a catastrophic, life-altering injury at a Shelton camp after a piece of heavy equipment fails during a haul.
- Mystery at East Clallam
Two Indigenous men vanish after a suspicious boat wreck, leaving only a shredded canoe and a missing shoe behind.
- The Narrow Escape of John Long
A young man is nearly killed after being dragged fifty feet by a train at the Chehalis depot.
- Sawed in Two: A Young Mill Worker’s Death at Sidney
Albert Dahlager slipped against the rotary saws at Wilson Bros.’ mill in Kitsap County, leaving a widowed mother without support.
- A Desperate Act at Chimacum
A local laborer, facing destitution, ends his life in a violent explosion that rocks a small settlement.
- The Tacoma Water Swindle Turns Ugly
A forged document leads to a heated confrontation between city officials and powerful local interests.
- The River Would Not Give Seth Catlin Back
After Seth Catlin drowned, his father and a crew of searchers fought an eight-mile-an-hour current with fish nets and telegraph wire.
- A Quarter-Century Later, Three Civil War Comrades Find Each Other in Seattle
Decades after the chaos of the march to the sea and a fateful skirmish near Atlanta, three messmates from the Twenty-third Missouri Infantry shared a surprise reunion in Seattle.
- A Hunter's Bear Hug Nearly Becomes His Last
Adam Mechling shot at what he took for a fawn in the Skagit County woods and found himself beneath a 300-pound she bear.
- The Dolly Varden Ticket: Seattle's 1894 Scheme to Stitch Together a Political Frankenstein
Disgruntled Republicans and Democrats met in downtown Seattle to plan a hybrid 'taxpayers' ticket aimed at beating the regular Republican slate—if they could keep the seams from splitting.