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3 stories matching enginemen
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- Northern Pacific Workers Face Widespread Wage Cuts
Facing revenue declines, the Northern Pacific Railroad imposes sweeping pay reductions on its staff, sparking potential strike actions across the system.
- Northern Pacific Purges Ranks in Consolidation
A master mechanic travels to Vancouver to test the fitness of workers on newly acquired rail lines as wage standards are adjusted.
- Bushwhackers in the Puyallup Woods: How the Pullman Strike Became a Criminal Manhunt
A federal grand jury indicts a Northern Pacific clerk for threatening to draw locomotive fires, while Sheriff Matthews finds rifles and a shotgun used to ambush passenger trains near the Puyallup reservation.
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- The Fire That Never Came: Seattle’s Barely-Staffed Engine Company
In 1878, the city finally bought a hand engine for fire protection, but with only ten men to crew it, officials warned that a real blaze would leave the town helpless.
- Seattle's New Fire Engine Wrecked on a False Alarm
Answering a call from the Tremont block, the Watrous engine hit the streetcar tracks between South Second and South Third, snapped an axle and toppled—leaving driver Charles Murray and engineer F. M. Collins lucky to be alive.
- The Day Seattle’s Firefighters Forgot the Engine
A narrow escape on Mill Street in 1876 reveals how quickly a small fire could consume the wooden city—and how unprepared the new volunteer company was.
- The Engine House Was Locked—and the Janitor Was at Church
When two fires broke out in Seattle's Chinese quarter, the engine house was locked and the janitor held the key. Bystanders put out the flames—and the paper demanded a fire department overhaul.
- The City Council Seized Our Engine: A Firehouse Rebellion
When the city government stripped Seattle Engine Company No. 2 of their apparatus to give it to a new company, the firefighters organized a defiant public meeting to protest the 'unwarranted usurpation of authority.'
- The Fire Warden’s War with the Firemen
Seattle’s fire warden defends his authority against a rebellious engine company.
- Seattle's Squabbling Firefighters
A newly constructed engine house on South Third Street sits empty because the local fire companies refuse to use it, preferring to keep their equipment on Columbia Street.
- The Case for a Modern Fire Engine in 1880s Seattle
An urgent editorial call for the city to upgrade its firefighting capabilities to match Seattle's rapid expansion.