Narrow Escape at Black River
Workers narrowly avoid disaster after a gravel bank collapses on the east side of Lake Washington.
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The gravel bank on the east side of Lake Washington, from which the narrow gauge road is securing gravel to fill in the bridge at Black River, caved in yesterday afternoon. Fortunately, no one was hurt. A gang of men was working on the spot but a few minutes previous to the accident, but a slight rumble gave warning that the bank was about to give way, and the men got away before the bank finally caved in.
“A slight rumble gave warning that the bank was about to give way.”
The infrastructure projects of 1892, such as filling bridges and grading the east side of Lake Washington, laid the literal groundwork for the modern Eastside. Construction accidents of this type were common in the rapid, often dangerous, expansion of regional transit systems.
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