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4 stories matching headfirst
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- A Fatal Wagon Ride on South Second
A local resident dies after a tragic accident when his team is spooked by an early automobile.
- The Great Train Escape
A federal prisoner leaps through a train window at 30 miles per hour while handcuffed, sparking a desperate manhunt in the woods near Pasco.
- River Rescue at Pasco
Captain Brown of the Hanford Flyer saves a drowning child from the Columbia River.
- A Near-Death Fall at the Mount Si Hotel
While working on a hotel construction project in Snoqualmie, a man miraculously survives a thirty-four-foot plunge after a scaffold gives way.
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- A Near-Fatal Train Wreck Averted by a Rooftop Signal
A head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the outskirts of Kennewick results in mass wreckage but miraculous survival.