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237 stories matching carriag
- A Carriage Disaster on the Yakima River
A satirical, vivid account of a carriage accident involving local power brokers, detailing a chaotic plunge into the river and the comical loss of a macintosh.
- A Near-Fatal Carriage Crash on the Beach Road
A local man is severely injured when a startled team of horses plunges off an embankment, highlighting the dangers of early Seattle infrastructure.
- The Day Newport Showed Off: Fourth of July, 1909
A rain-threatened holiday still drew crowds for an industrial parade, patriotic speeches, baseball, log-rolling and a dance—without a single arrest.
- The Half Moon Bridge Collapse: A Family's Carriage Plunges into the Willapa River
A routine crossing turned to disaster when the Half Moon bridge near Lebam gave way, injuring six people and killing a horse.
- The President’s Dust Storm: Roosevelt’s Outburst at Whitman College
On a sweltering Monday in May 1903, Teddy Roosevelt nearly derailed his own parade in Walla Walla, demanding the military stop marching through clouds of dust that coated him and his party.
- The End of the Horse-Drawn Era?
As inventors race to perfect the motor carriage, the city of the future promises cleaner streets and the eventual extinction of the horse as a daily utility.
- A Sawmill Worker’s Leg Was Cut Off. His Boss’s Quick Thinking Saved Him.
At a mill near Auburn, Edward McKeown lost a leg to a circular saw. W. M. Rodgers’s makeshift tourniquet and a hurried call for doctors kept him alive.
- 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 Missing Will That Would Have Given Seattle a Library
Henry Yesler's widow and two doctors are arrested, accused of burning a will that left the pioneer's fortune—and his mansion—to the city.
- The President’s Day: 10,000 Strong Cheer Teddy in Walla Walla
Thousands flooded the Inland Empire capital to witness Theodore Roosevelt’s arrival, turning Kirn Street into a sea of flags and applause for the man who rules the United States.
- The Widow, the Prisoner, and a Near-Miss on Yesler Hill
Mrs. Harry L. Fraser demanded to face Paul Page, the man accused of killing her husband in a Northern Hotel barroom—while Page was being arraigned a few blocks away.
- A Father’s Deadly Jealousy
After years of keeping his daughter a virtual prisoner, a rancher hunts down a carriage carrying her to a dance and kills the wrong man.
- The Desperado Who Vanished Into the Brush
A King County manhunt closes in on escaped murderer Thomas Blanck—until a dark ambush near Black River Junction lets him slip away behind his partner’s raised hands.
- The Senator’s Homecoming: A City Roars for Watson Squire
Thousands line the Seattle waterfront as the Bailey Gatzert steamer arrives, carrying newly re-elected U.S. Senator Watson C. Squire home from Olympia in a spontaneous ovation of cheers, champagne christenings, and civic pride.
- Tragedy at a Seattle Home
A fourteen-month-old infant dies after drinking from a saucer of poisoned fly paper.
- Horrific Sawmill Accident Leaves Worker Fighting for His Life
A logger is maimed in a catastrophic carriage accident at the Stetson Manufacturing Company mill in Montesano.
- A Forty-Foot Iron Rod Bursts Through the Jurgens Mill Wall
A broken carriage rod sends a piston head and forty feet of heavy iron flying through the mill; workers and a lady visitor escape unhurt.
- A Romantic Tragedy at the Ravenna Ravine
A couple from Illinois, caught in a horse-drawn carriage accident, met a fatal end in Seattle's wilder outskirts.
- The Doctor's Carriage Scare
A Seattle school teacher's rigid adherence to hygiene protocols leads to a misunderstanding in the Nineteenth Ward.
- The Carriage Rebellion of Seattle’s Debutantes
Tired of the crushing social pressure and financial strain of modern courtship, the young ladies of Seattle’s elite have organized a strike against the expensive tradition of the horse-drawn carriage.
- The Smallpox Patients Nobody Would Haul
Three new cases at the American House left Seattle's health officer begging for a carriage while three patients sawed their way out of quarantine.
- The Night Seattle's Young Men Came to the Ball Alone
At the Olympic Tennis Club's Seattle Theater ball, many eligible young men arrived stag. Their excuse was simple: carriages, bouquets and suppers had made courtship too expensive.
- The Ghost on Pacific Avenue
Tacoma’s hack drivers are convinced a local man is a walking curse after a series of strange carriage wrecks.
- The Picnic That Ended in a Wrecked Carriage
A family outing beyond Renton turns to panic when a horse bolts on the grade, throwing three people to the ground and breaking Mrs. Ward's leg in two places.
- The Yakima Carriage King
How local craftsman Michael Schorn is proving that North Yakima can outbuild the eastern factories.