A Grim Discovery on the Beach at Ocosta
A local man searching for driftwood finds human remains near the site of a past tragedy.
Peter Cronix, a nephew of the mail carrier, was reconnoitering along the beach for driftwood last Sunday when he discovered the skeleton of a man about a mile south of the gold house. The body of a dark bay horse also lies nearby. The absence of flesh on the man's body indicates he had been dead for some months, and it may be the body of the engineer of the tug Favorite, or his brother, who were drowned last summer while bathing. The horse's body was found nearly intact.
“The absence of flesh on the body of the man would indicate that he had been dead some months.”
Ocosta, once a bustling terminal point for the Northern Pacific Railroad, has largely faded from the map. This discovery highlights how the Grays Harbor coastline served as both a commercial lifeline and a perilous graveyard for early settlers and mariners.
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