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180 stories matching shelter
- A Flagman Left Out in the Cold
City council blocks a permit for a shelter at the Great Northern tracks, leaving a worker to face the winter elements alone.
- Seattle’s Salvation Army Shelter Fed 6,000 in a Single Month—and Needed Firewood Customers
In February 1893, the food and shelter department at Weller and South Second streets reported thousands of meals and lodgings, found work for 34 people, and appealed for stove-wood orders to keep its doors open.
- The Men Who Asked to Be Jailed for Shelter
As unemployment rises in the winter of 1886, the city jail becomes the last resort for laborers seeking shelter and a crust of bread.
- Surviving the Collapse
After a windstorm destroyed her shelter, a woman fights for her life.
- The Unlucky Hitchhiker of Seattle
A freak accident during a spring storm proves deadly for a man seeking shelter under a passing wagon.
- City Jail Expands Capacity for Homeless
With winter's chill settling in, Tacoma installs bunks to replace cold cement floors for the indigent.
- The Technicality That Defeated Everett’s Ten-Hour Law
A local labor case against a merchant was dismissed, exposing a legal system that the paper argues favors corporations over human rights.
- A Mutual Aid Lifeline for Seattle’s Unemployed
In the midst of economic hardship, a local cooperative provides food and shelter to hundreds, sustained by community donations and church support.
- The Forgotten Men of the New Sewer District
A plea for human decency as laborers endure harsh winter conditions without basic shelter while building the city’s infrastructure.
- Seattle Rebuilds After Fire, Clearing Ruins and Sheltering Residents
Following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, the city grapples with the logistics of debris clearance, housing relief, and the return of labor.
- Blackface for Charity: Tacoma's Church Children Stage the 'Pickaninny Minstrels'
At St. Luke's parish house the children of Tacoma's Episcopal set performed a minstrel show to fund the Sheltering Arms, and the correspondent pronounced it wonderful — a measure of how respectable racial caricature once was.
- The First Winter at Alki Point
A vivid account of the 1851 arrival of the Denny party, their struggle for shelter, and the founding of the settlement that would become Seattle.
- Hurricane-Force Winds Topple Desert House onto Woman
A woman was critically injured near Richmond Ferry when a sudden, violent windstorm collapsed a deserted house she had entered to seek shelter.
- The Empty City: A Housing Crisis Before the Term Existed
In a Seattle where every single available house is spoken for, residents are forced to compete for shelter in a market that defies modern understanding of supply and demand.
- The Forgotten General in the City Jail
A decorated Civil War veteran and Indian fighter finds himself destitute and seeking shelter in a Seattle prison.
- An Act of Desperation in Tacoma
A hungry and unemployed longshoreman smashes a store window to get arrested for a warm bed and food.
- The 'Hell-Trap' Murderer Sentenced to Ten Years
A man who built a lethal spring-gun trap in a remote cabin is sentenced for the death of a laborer who simply sought shelter from the cold.
- Denied Shelter at the Hospital, A Woman Gives Birth in a Police Station
A tragic case of medical red tape and bureaucratic cruelty exposes the lack of a social safety net in 1893 Seattle.
- Trapped by the Mountain’s Fury
A terrifying narrow escape as a winter slide nearly claims a mountain boarding house.
- A Frontier Expedition to the Snoqualmie
A military detachment treks into the rugged wilderness near Snoqualmie to rescue travelers stranded by heavy snow.
- The Bold Heist at the Washington Hotel
Thieves in Seattle cracked a 500-pound safe in broad daylight after rolling it from the city's finest hotel.
- The Old Cascades Blockhouse Falls
A historic log fortification dating to the 1856 Indian Wars has collapsed in a windstorm, marking the end of a physical connection to the territory's early conflicts.
- Mapping the Gateway to the Chehalis
An official 1883 engineering survey reveals the natural promise of Gray's Harbor.
- The Unlucky Traveler of Snoqualmie Pass
A man’s attempt to cross the mountains turns into a desperate struggle against the elements.
- The Excursion Party's Cold Shoulder
A visiting elite excursion party bypassed Seattle after hearing the city lacked a 'commensurate' hotel.
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- The Salvation Army’s Radical Winter Shelter
Facing rising unemployment and poverty, the Salvation Army transforms a Jackson Street basement into a 24-hour haven of food, warmth, and labor advocacy.
- After the Great Fire, Seattle Faced a Crisis of Shelter
With the city center in ashes, temporary lodging became the most pressing demand for a bustling frontier town.
- A Refuge for the City's Most Vulnerable
A modest home on Spring Street provides critical care for children whose parents have died or are unable to support them.
- The Struggle to Feed and House the Unemployed
As the economic depression deepens, a city mission at 604 Commercial Street reports on its efforts to sustain hundreds of displaced men.