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19 stories matching culvert
- A Fireman Died in a Flood-Swollen Culvert. Now His Widow Wants the Railroad to Pay.
E. G. Cole left a widow and three daughters, including six-month-old twins. His estate is suing the Oregon Improvement Company for $12,480, alleging the company ran a train through a flooded, defective roadbed.
- The Night They Burned the Bridges: Sprague Makes Its Stand
A mob stones the returning militia, torch-wielding strikers destroy trestles on both sides of town, and a governor wires back orders to 'use all force at your command' to disperse the rioters.
- Dam Break Triggers Flash Flood in Snohomish
A failed dam at Blackman's Lake sent a torrent of water into the heart of town, caving in streets and flooding basements.
- Tragedy at the Blind Culvert
A locomotive fireman dies after a train plunges into a washout during the Great Flood of 1892.
- Tragedy on the Rails: Two Die in Pasco Train Wreck
A passenger train derails through a trestle, killing two men riding the rails.
- Vigilante Justice Looms in Skykomish
An assistant engineer reports that a gang of gamblers and outlaws has taken control of the Great Northern Railroad laborers' camp.
- The Sky Turned to Smoke: Forest Fires Choke Puget Sound
Fires across Whatcom, Skagit and the Olympic Mountains destroyed bridges, barns and a shingle mill, derailed a Great Northern train and left Puget Sound under a suffocating haze.
- A Minister’s Sharp Critique of City Hall’s 'Joinery'
Rev. Wallace Nutting takes the pulpit to call out bureaucratic waste, road-grading failures, and a lack of conscience in police enforcement.
- 1,500 Men and a Steam Shovel: Newport Builds the Metaline Line
The Idaho & Washington Northern extension turns Newport into a construction boomtown, with subcontractor camps, mule trains, dynamite barges and a temporary hospital.
- The Price of Secrecy in the Puyallup Coal Fields
When a contractor is jailed for contempt, the future of a key territorial infrastructure project hangs in the balance.
- The Wagon King Tells Seattle to Build Roads and Put Idle Men to Work
Clem Studebaker, visiting from South Bend, says Puget Sound is beautiful but backward: good roads, an army-built highway system, and the Nicaragua canal would cure unemployment.
- Taxpayers' Union Declares War on County Spending
Prosser-based citizens group demands cuts to health and horticultural budgets, targeting local officials over alleged waste.
- A Newborn Found in a Basket Under a Tacoma Cemetery Bridge
A coroner's grim morning in 1895: an abandoned infant discovered in Oakland Cemetery, wrapped in a lady's undervest and calico, with no clue to its mother.
- The Great Columbia Fish Rush
When an electric railway culvert at Columbia flooded the flats, local residents turned the disaster into a spontaneous community harvest of salmon and trout.
- Fortifying the Mountain Pass
Great Northern Railroad crews race against time to shield the Cascade division from winter avalanches.
- The Juvenile Crime Spree in Colfax
A gang of boys, sons of prominent citizens, ran wild in a night of vandalism and theft.
- A Painful Carriage Accident on the Shores of Lake Union
A local real estate developer suffers a severe injury after a team of horses is spooked on the outskirts of town.
- Railroad Receiver Implements Austerity Measures
Faced with financial strain, the Lake Shore road's receiver fires thirty-six men and halts essential maintenance work.
- A Farmer's Quarter-Mile Wall Against the Pend Oreille
After losing $3,000 in crops, John Davas built a dike near Dalkena high enough to turn back the spring flood—and stout enough to protect his neighbors.
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- Cusick’s New Water Works
A local entrepreneur brings modern infrastructure to a growing valley town.
- The Mosquito Netting Orchardist
A clever gardener in Lynden manages to defy the seasons and local birds, producing fresh cherries long after the neighbors' trees were picked clean.
- A Farmer Dams a Ditch, and Neighbors Build a Dike
In the town of Tolt, a landowner’s waterway blockade turns into a muddy standoff, with farmers throwing up dikes to keep their fields from flooding.
- Seattle Engineering Firm Lands Massive Naval Dry Dock Contract
Moran Brothers Company secures the contract for the pumping station at Port Orchard's naval dry dock, promising local jobs.
- The Rising Groundwater Threat
A federal drainage expert warns that Kennewick's porous soil is becoming waterlogged by irrigation, creating a public health crisis.
- A Town Determined to Stay on the Map
Cusick lays fresh sidewalks to the depot, grades its muddy streets, breaks ground on a drainage dike, and chases a long-idle sawmill back to life.
- Turning Slaughterhouse Waste Into Gold
A new industrial plant on the Grant Street bridge aims to convert city scraps into exportable fertilizer for the Hawaiian market.
- The Dike That Wasn't Built
Cusick's levees saved 500 acres of grain, but Dike District No. 1 lost its season to a right-of-way feud—and now heads to court to condemn the land it needs.