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8 stories matching lengthwis
- The Dead Man with the Tattoo: A Sailor’s Body Washes Ashore in Snohomish
Identification of a drowned sailor near Jewett's logging camp reveals a life marked by ink and industry, closing a chapter on the Snohomish River.
- Tragedy at Gilman Mine
A miner is killed by a runaway pipe, just days before he was to retire to his ranch.
- Seattle's Broken Sewers Were Shoveled to Pieces, Engineer Says
City Engineer Thomson rejects the explosion theory and blames wet clay clods and soft-burned pipe for fractures under Kenny Street.
- A Meat Delivery Ends Beneath a Freight Train in Old Town
John Flynn, a 51-year-old sailor working odd jobs, was carrying beef to a barkentine when a Northern Pacific train backed over him at the foot of McCarver Street.
- The Boy Who Vanished Into the Dirt
A contractor’s chilling account of a six-year-old who fell into an open trench and was buried alive—only to be dug out just in time.
- A Monorail on a 'Bicycle System': The 1892 Plan to Ride One Rail from Seattle to Tacoma
A company promised a thirty-mile elevated railway — cars balanced on a single steel rail, steadied by rubber wheels on an overhead guide — running across the tide flats and reaching Tacoma in forty minutes.
- The Million-Dollar Dry Dock Across the Sound
At Port Orchard, contractors raced to finish the largest dry dock in America—and boasted it would be third largest in the world.
- The Navy Secretary Goes Down Into the Big Hole
Secretary of the Navy Herbert rides the lighthouse tender Manzanita across the Sound to inspect the giant new dry dock at Port Orchard, settles a bitter dispute over how deep to drive the pilings, and dances the night away at the Rainier.