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- Nineteen Buildings Gone Before Breakfast
With no fire department and only buckets, the Kitsap County seat of Sidney watched its entire business district burn to the ground in three hours — then promised to rebuild as Seattle had.
- The Underground Fire Beneath Jackson Street
Firemen battle a persistent blaze burning within the tide-flat ashes beneath the electric light works.
- 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 Phosphorus Terror of Hoquiam
A saboteur sows the streets with incendiary devices, nearly reducing the town to ash before the rains intervene.
- Seattle’s Tinderbox: A Warning from the Ashes of Reno
As a massive fire ravages Nevada, this Seattle editor sounds the alarm over the city’s wooden buildings and exorbitant insurance costs, urging brick construction before disaster strikes.
- The Perilous Depths of the Newcastle Mine
A rare eyewitness account from 1,000 feet below the earth, where miners fight 'black damp' and underground fires to power a growing Seattle.
- A Father’s Desperate Dash Through the Flames
In Snohomish County, a father saved his three young children from a burning home just as the roof collapsed, leaving the family physically scarred but alive.
- A 3 A.M. Saloon Fire Puts a Whole Block in Peril
Smoke seeping from the basement of A. L. Ries's Eagle saloon roused the Dunlap Hotel and threatened an entire frame row on Washington Avenue — and renewed Newport's long push for a real fire company.
- Inferno in the Olympics
Citizens gather on Church Hill in Port Angeles to watch a massive timber fire burning in the Olympic Mountains.
- Hot Ashes Nearly Burn Down Olympia’s Pride
A carelessly discarded batch of hot ashes smoldered for hours in the Capitol Steam Laundry before bursting into flame beneath the Olympia Hotel.
- The Hop Bonanza in the Puyallup Valley
An account of the massive agricultural boom in the Puyallup Valley, highlighting the success of local hop farmers and the looming shadow of the volcano.
- Fire Threatens Major Snohomish Mill
Workers and citizens labor through the afternoon to save a prominent local lumber mill after its dry kiln catches fire.
- Lawyers vs. Insurance Men: A Charity Ballgame and a Mock-Biblical Declaration of War
Seattle's bar association answers the 'tribe of Insurance Men' on the diamond at Madison Street Park, with the gate money going to the Bureau of Associated Charities.
- Homesteader Tracks Wails to Lake Washington's Haunted Spring
A lonely homesteader discovers the source of the eerie wails and mysterious shadows that had terrorized his cabin for thirty years.
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- Smelter Boarding House Reduced to Ash After Brawl
A drunken dispute between boarders turned into an explosive inferno at the smelter district, leaving residents fleeing for their lives.
- The Mysterious Burning of the Scow Bleecker
A steam scow used to haul bricks from Fog Island is destroyed by fire, fueling local rumors of arson.
- The Great Baking Powder Confidence Game
A charismatic stranger swindled Spokane canvassers out of their commissions, leaving them with piles of product and no pay.
- The Day the Smelter Blew: Peter Williams and the Seattle Explosion
A carpenter’s routine repair job ends in tragedy when a blowpipe explodes at Selhy’s Smelting Works, killing him instantly.
- A Close Call at the Blacksmith Shop
A blow torch ignites gasoline fumes at Jameson Newell's shop, nearly destroying the facility and two automobiles.
- A Confession Withdrawn, a Wife Dead: The Smokalem Mystery
Jack Smokalem pleads guilty, then takes it back, as his daughter and coroners give conflicting accounts of his wife's violent death.
- Railroad Workers Torch a Notorious 'Dive'
Vigilante laborers in the Cascades take matters into their own hands, using dynamite to destroy a saloon they claim was robbing their comrades.
- An Unexplained Blaze in Ballard
A house belonging to a shingle weaver is destroyed by a suspicious fire in Ballard, potentially linked to labor unrest.