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4 stories matching cokedal
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- A Mining Town Mourns
Community lodges unite to lay a fallen miner to rest in Franklin after a fatal accident at the Cokedale mine.
- A Deadly Slip in the Cokedale Mine
Two carpenters, working on the rafters of an incline, lost their footing and fell 330 feet into a freezing, water-filled sump.
- A Ledger of Lost Lives in 1893 Seattle
A coroner’s report from March 1893 documents the grim reality of life in a frontier city, including industrial accidents and social crises.
- Fifty-Four Dead in a Year: The 1894 Reckoning of Washington's Coal Mines
The state mine inspectors' annual report tallies 1.16 million tons of coal, 1,159 miners — and 54 lives lost to accidents, with the toll heaviest at Franklin.