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108 stories matching perish
- The Orphan’s Plea: A Poem That Moved Seattle to Tears on Decoration Day
As the city honored Civil War dead with solemn processions and speeches, a young girl’s grief over her father’s unmarked grave brought the Grand Marshal to tears.
- The Tragedy at the Red Front
A late-night fiddler perishes in an Everett lodging house fire that leaves downtown businesses in ruins.
- The Tragedy at White Ash Mine
Ten miners are trapped in a flooded colliery with little hope of rescue, sparking a somber realization for local families.
- The Blaine Fisherman Who Pulled Seven People Out of the Water and Never Told Anyone
Hans Nielson is 24 years old, slight of build, and has saved seven lives in ten years — two in Denmark, five around Blaine — and calls each rescue a thing 'only incidental to the life of a water toiler.'
- The Looming Strike Threatens the Harvest
Railroads impose an embargo on perishable shipments in Kennewick as a national strike deadline looms for Labor Day.
- Family Missing After Sloop Disappears in Puget Sound
A Mount Vernon father ignored warnings to stay off the rough waters of the Sound with his wife and children; now only debris remains.
- Tragedy at Moore's Pond
Two young brothers perish in a drowning accident while their mother and a nearby observer look on helplessly.
- A Railroad the Valley Needed—and Another Year of Waiting
Federal regulators ordered a fresh hearing on the Wenatchee Southern, infuriating Central Washington growers who said poor transport was costing them millions.
- The Widow’s Gamble: A Seattle Man’s Death in Alaska Triggers a Federal Insurance Battle
Mrs. By H. Rietson sues the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company for the payout on her husband Archie C. Rietson, who perished with 13 others when the steamer Jessie sank in the Kuskokwim River last June. The company refuses to pay until his death is positively proven.
- The Freight Bottleneck on the Waterfront
Local merchants clash with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company over the delayed delivery of perishable goods.
- Seattle's First Strawberries Head East
Local horticulturists test the viability of shipping Puget Sound fruit to Eastern markets by rail.
- Inferno at the Spokane Falls
Four mills destroyed and workers missing after a massive industrial fire consumes the riverfront.
- 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 Tragic Wreck of the Ferndale
Twenty men perished when the British iron bark Ferndale was driven onto the beach near Grays Harbor during the most violent storm ever recorded on the Washington coast.
- 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.
- Tacoma Mourns Five Residents Lost on the Steamship Clallam
Tacoma reels from the loss of five residents in a deadly steamboat sinking as questions of seaworthiness arise.
- A Yakama Chief Falls as the Territory's Indian War Ends
Col. Wright's campaign is declared over; Owhi is shot near the Snake River, and the Herald celebrates executions and hostages as peace.
- The Dug-Eaters of the Yukon: A Philadelphia Man’s Starvation Story
H.C. Reifsnyder arrives in Seattle with a harrowing tale of survival on the Edmonton Trail, where his party subsisted on dog meat and dugouts after losing their provisions to the brutal wilderness.
- An Indigenous Woman Left to Die at Seattle’s Mechanic Wharf
When five Indigenous people were rescued from a capsized canoe in Seattle’s harbor, a local resident threw one woman into the mud and left her to die.
- Ice Breaks: Two Young Men Drown in Snohomish River Tragedy
Horace Low and Arthur Butt, employees of the local newspaper office, lost their lives after ice gave way beneath them while skating on the river.
- The Tragic Disappearance of a Smuggling Sloop
Twelve people, including ten Chinese laborers and two young girls, are believed to have perished in the treacherous straits separating Victoria from the American side during a high-stakes human smuggling operation.
- The Cold Transit of the Ching Wo
Elderly Chinese passengers endure miserable, freezing conditions on a freight steamer as they seek a final journey home.
- Fatal Panic Following a Cruel Hoax
A woman drowns in a desperate escape attempt after a stranger falsely claims a Seattle saloon is under quarantine.
- The Forced Deportation of Mrs. Lee Fook Bow
Customs officials seized the steamer Umatilla to enforce a federal court order, ultimately compelling the shipping company to return a Chinese woman to China under the restrictive immigration laws of 1892.
- The Roslyn Mine Disaster
A devastating gas explosion in Northern Pacific Coal Company's Mine No. 2 leaves dozens of families in mourning as the town of Roslyn turns its city hall into a temporary morgue.
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- A Perilous Afternoon near Lake Union
A brush with disaster in the rugged timberlands of 1877 Seattle, where an accidental axe blow turned a day of surveying into a desperate journey for survival.
- A Perilous Plunge Aboard the City of Panama
An elderly passenger’s fall through an unsecured hatchway exposes the dangerous negligence of a bustling Seattle steamship.
- A Perilous Encounter in Wide Hollow
A woman is severely injured after an encounter with an enraged animal on her property.
- The Peril of the Newcastle Coal Mine
A coal miner appeals directly to the Territorial Governor after local officials ignore warnings of a persistent, dangerous fire at the Newcastle mines.
- The Perils of Early Seattle Construction
A carpenter is struck unconscious by a falling board at a building site, highlighting the chaotic and unregulated nature of the city's 1889 post-fire construction boom.
- A Perilous Ascent on Front Street
A construction worker suffers a violent fall while building a new home, sparking a community health scare in 1870s Seattle.
- A Fatal Tiller Blow on the Sound
A pioneer fisherman faces manslaughter charges after a tragic, unintended killing of a close friend.
- The Perilous Daily Commute at the Cedar River Mines
For miners in a remote Seattle-area coal camp, getting to work meant risking their lives on makeshift bridges and slippery footlogs, all to feed their families.