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- A Breath of Fire-Damp Killed Twenty-Three Blue Canyon Miners
A coal-mine explosion near Lake Whatcom wiped out nearly an entire shift just before it was due to change, leaving only two survivors to tell what happened underground.
- The House That Slid Down the Hill
A ramshackle boarding house on Main Street collapses after heavy rains and poor construction send it sliding down an unstable Seattle hillside.
- A High-Stakes Gamble at the Front Street Poker Table
A desperate gambler nearly takes his own life after a losing streak in Seattle's underworld, only to be saved by a sudden twist of fortune.
- The Day the Mountains Slid into the Tracks
A massive landslide near Palmer paralyzed Northern Pacific rail traffic, forcing stranded passengers to walk between trains.
- Narrow Escape on Gabel Mountain
Three young boys go hiking, resulting in a terrifying 30-foot tumble down a ledge for one local youth.
- Death on the Division Street Bridge
A morning commute turned into a catastrophe when a steel span over the Spokane River collapsed, sending two trolley cars into the freezing water.
- Squatter Killed in Massive Railroad Slide
A catastrophic hillside failure near Monroe Street buries part of a shantytown; a local man is missing and presumed dead.
- The Growing Pains of Everett
A nostalgic look at the early days of Everett, from the rough-and-tumble construction boom to the economic despair of the 'hard times' and the eventual rise of a working-class city.
- The House That Slid Down the Street
A Seattle homeowner sues the city for ruinous damage after a street grading project leaves his property tumbling toward the thoroughfare.
- A Chaotic Day on the Seattle Waterfront
Multiple steamship collisions, a warehouse fire, and a capsized picnic boat turned the Seattle harbor into a disaster zone on a single August day.
- Forging the Iron Path Through the Cascades
A look at the grueling engineering feat of the Great Northern Railway’s passage across the mountain divide.
- Seattle's Bid to Be the Liverpool of America
In 1895, boosters imagined a Lake Washington ship canal turning Puget Sound into a freshwater harbor for world commerce, coal trade, and naval power.
- Two Men Crushed in a Railroad Cut — and Fifteen Walked Off the Job
A 35-foot construction cut collapsed at Gilbert Brandt's camp opposite LeClerc Creek, killing Otto Blad and Gus Nelson and injuring two others.
- Mountain Gives Way on Lake Whatcom
A landslide in the middle of the night destroys a picturesque farm and leaves its owners fighting for their lives in the frigid lake water.
- Six Men Climbed a Smoking Rainier in Midwinter
When Mount Rainier seemed to erupt in 1894, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent Maj. E. S. Ingraham and five companions up the Carbon River in deep winter to find out what was really happening.
- The Tragedy of South 11th Street
A grand jury reopens the investigation into a 1908 collision that killed an eleven-year-old boy.
- A Life Lost in the Sewer Trenches
A laborer was crushed by falling rock in a Whatcom sewer trench while his comrades helplessly watched.
- Tragedy on the Yakima River Line
A Northern Pacific train derails near Bristol, claiming the lives of a Tacoma engineer and fireman.
- A Hillside Fell Into the Columbia—and Took the Railroad With It
Forty acres of mountain slid into the Columbia near Marcus, wrecking miles of the Spokane Falls & Northern and cutting Stevens County off from its markets.
- The Sea Captain’s Return to Seattle
After surviving a shipwreck, an opium smuggling trial, and years of exile, a seasoned mariner decides he is done running and returns to Seattle to settle his debts.
- A Wife Arrived Too Late: The Theater-Builder's Fatal Fall
H. M. Jones slipped from a board atop the unfinished Seattle Theater at Third and Cherry, leaving six children and a neighbor's quiet tribute.
- The Sliding Main Street Hillside
A recently completed street project on Main Street is already being reclaimed by the earth as the steep, clay-rich hillside slides into town.
- The Trolley Plunge
A Ballard couple sues a railway company for a winter disaster where a streetcar slid off an icy trestle and into the bay.
- Car Crashes Into Saloon Window
A high-speed collision near Puyallup Avenue results in a vehicle embedded inside a local tavern.
- The City That Slid Away: Seattle’s Front Street Disaster of 1876
As the city expands up its steep hills, a critical retaining wall on Front Street collapses under the weight of new development, leaving officials to wonder if Seattle is building itself into a disaster.
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- The Hill Is Sliding Into the Sea: Seattle’s First Landslide Crisis
In November 1876, a slow-motion disaster threatened to bury a jeweler’s home and block Mill Street as nature reclaimed the southern slopes of Pioneer Square.
- The Land is Moving Beneath the Mills
As Seattle's waterfront expansion struggles against unstable geology, a sash and door factory is forced to shutter as the hillside slips toward the bay.
- The Hilltop Slip: Seattle’s Shifting Waterfront
Decades before the regrades reshaped the city, residents of the Belltown waterfront watched their homes slide into the bay as the ground beneath them turned to quicksand.
- A Plunge Toward the Waterfront
A teamster survives a terrifying fifty-foot tumble after his wagon loses footing on the steep grades of 1889 Seattle.
- The Sliding Hill: Railroad Abandoning Prosser
A shifting, unstable hill beneath the tracks forces the Northern Pacific to build an expensive eight-mile detour, threatening to bypass the town of Prosser.
- Engineering a Solution for the Fourteenth Street Slide
City Engineer Thomson outlines an expensive plan to halt the recurring, dangerous earth movements in the Beacon Hill district.
- The Great Beacon Hill Slide of 1892
Engineers and laborers scramble to contain a massive earth collapse threatening South Fourteenth Street.
- Landslide Threatens Streetcar Line at 32nd and G Streets
A South Tacoma resident reports that a major slide has brought the edge of a ravine precariously close to the streetcar tracks.