Tragedy at the Lumber Camp
A woodchopper is critically injured in the Snoqualmie woods after being struck by a falling tree branch.
C. Wall, a woodchopper, was taken to Providence hospital last evening with a crushed leg. He was cutting down a tree in Caulfield's lumber camp, near Snoqualmie, yesterday morning at 9 o'clock, when a dead limb broke off and struck his right leg and crushed it. He was brought into the city on the Lake Shore train last evening and taken to Providence hospital, where he was attended by Dr. Smith. It is thought the leg can be saved.
“a dead limb broke off and struck his right leg and crushed it.”
Industrial accidents in the logging camps were common and devastating realities of the Washington frontier, highlighting the extreme physical risks laborers faced in the state's foundational industry.
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