A Brakeman's Fall into the Sound
A brakeman on the Great Northern railway suffers a dangerous fall from a moving train near Richmond Beach.
J.C. Salisbury, a brakeman on Conductor Hilby’s train on the Great Northern, fell from the caboose into the Sound, one mile from Richmond Beach, yesterday afternoon. He was unconscious when picked up, having struck on some logs. He was taken to Edmonds for treatment. The extent of his injuries is not known.
“He was unconscious when picked up, having struck on some logs.”
Then · 1892134 years apartNow · 2026
Railroad work in the 1890s was notoriously dangerous, often involving high casualty rates for laborers. This incident captures the precarious nature of early industrial transport in the Pacific Northwest, long before modern rail safety standards.
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