Tragic Drowning at Port Townsend Logging Camp
A Canadian laborer is presumed drowned at a local camp, highlighting the inherent perils faced by workers in the timber industry.
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A case of drowning occurred Saturday at Chauncey Brockway's camp at Hyas. Mr. Joseph Kivera, a Canadian, who has been employed in the camp, was missed. This morning his body was found. It was supposed that he had been working on the boom, and had fallen in. He had the esteem of all who knew him. His relatives live somewhere about Walla Walla, and it is thought his body will be brought up this week on the Dispatch and sent to them. He was about 36 years of age.
“He had been working on the boom, and had fallen in.”
The precarious nature of 19th-century resource work remains a stark reminder of the human cost behind the region's timber wealth.
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