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46 stories matching linger
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died Because They Stayed to Fight the Fire
A blaze in the Franklin coal mine sent smoke through the gangways on Aug. 24, 1894, killing 37 men and boys who thought they had time to escape.
- The 'Lingerer' and the Moral Purge of Tacoma
A fiery 1885 editorial spat reveals the tension between town boosters and a 'Law and Order' movement intent on policing the morality of the emerging city.
- Thirty-Seven Miners Died 150 Feet From Safety
An 1894 coroner's jury in Franklin, Washington, heard how a small fire in the Oregon Improvement Company's coal mine became a wall of smoke — and why the men who could have escaped stayed to fight it.
- The First Labor Day Parade in Seattle
Thousands of Seattle workers marched through the downtown streets on September 2, 1889, in the city’s inaugural celebration of the labor movement.
- Stolen at Six, He Waited Seventeen Years to Ask a Policeman for His Mother's Address
A quiet hospital steward in Seattle writes to New York's famous Inspector Byrnes and signs a name nobody in this city had ever heard him use.
- Exposing the Opium Dens of Opera Alley
A local expose reveals that teenage messenger boys are being drawn into the city's opium dens and disreputable houses, triggering a promised police crackdown.
- Mrs. MacDonald and Harry Ahlers Identified After Drowning
A domestic dispute ends in a drowning that shocks the city and leaves two children orphaned.
- The Shadow of 1885 Lingers in Tacoma
Twenty years after the forced expulsion of the city's Chinese population, rumors of new arrivals trigger threats of vigilante action.
- The Final Days of Mrs. Morton
A terminally ill woman dies at the home where her estranged husband lived with his mistress, having refused their care to the end.
- A Life Undermined by the Vault Explosion
After years of struggling with the physical and nervous aftermath of a horrific gas blast in the sheriff’s office, a prominent Seattle Republican has passed away at age 30.
- A Brother's Bullet: Deputy Marshal Dies, and the Accused Killer Asks Only for a Match
Shot by his own brother at Pioneer Place and James Street, Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward Minsch lingers a day and dies at Providence Hospital — while Frank Minsch, cool and indifferent in the city jail, shows no grief and admits only that he is 'subject to epileptic fits.'
- The Grave Robbers of St. Mary’s: A Scandal in Portland
Rumors swirl that the body of a local widow was disturbed by 'outsiders' seeking a rumored cancer tumor, prompting doctors to deny the tale and friends to demand investigation.
- The Powder Barrel Scandal: Seattle’s City Council vs. The Police Chief
A fiery public dispute over missing dynamite and unauthorized absences exposes deep friction in the Seattle city government of 1885.
- A Reborn Haven in Old Seattle
After the violence of the 1886 anti-Chinese riots shuttered his school, a local merchant defies the lingering hostility to create a space for education and community.
- The Last Request of a Forgotten Pioneer
An elderly immigrant who sought his fortune in the Fraser River gold rush spends his final days pleading for a dignified burial, forcing the city's power brokers to confront the reality of poverty in a booming frontier town.
- Fatal Fall from a Cascade Bridge
A young bridge builder falls thirty feet to his death on the Northern Pacific railroad line, leaving a grieving mother in Oak Harbor.
- Tragedy on Sixth Avenue
A young child dies after a tragic accident at home while her father was working at his pharmacy downstairs.
- South End Club Moves to Take City Hall Out of the Ward Bosses' Hands
A hundred petitions, 4,000 signatures and a charter committee of fifteen: South Tacoma's improvement club launches a drive for commission government before the council can bury civil service for good.
- A Tacoma Shooting Unravels an Elopement
Albert McAchren shot his wife, tried to shoot her daughter, and turned the gun on himself. As she lingers, a friend describes the couple’s flight from Fidalgo.
- A Desperate Act at the Wharf
A man in deep distress throws himself beneath a moving train in Seattle, sparking a harrowing public rescue.
- The Ferryman of the Dark River
An encounter on the waterfront reveals the quiet, lingering melancholy of a man reflecting on the 'old timey days' and the hard reality of post-slavery life.
- The Bakery Window: A Seattle Child’s Holiday Wish
A young boy lingers outside a storefront, capturing the stark contrast between the city's commercial bustle and the quiet, desperate hope of a child’s holiday.
- The Uncertain Fate of Tommy Santiago Howard
Convicted of killing Kite Arquette years ago, Howard faces the penitentiary despite lingering doubts about his guilt and a potential pardon effort.
- A Deadly Error on Lopez Island
A 70-year-old man, a repeat offender in accidental shootings, is critically wounded after being mistaken for a deer in a fern patch.
- Three Days Adrift: A Ferryman's Rescue Off Point Wilson
A German sailor in an open skiff, barely able to speak or move, is pulled from the water by Mr. Benson and brought to Port Townsend.