Tragedy at the Blue Canyon Coal Mine
A miner from Nova Scotia is killed in a horrific industrial accident in the Blue Canyon coal slope, leaving behind a wife and five children.
Alexander Grant, a miner at the Blue Canyon coal mine, was crushed to death yesterday by a mass of earth and rock falling upon him in the slope where he was working. His body was crushed into a shapeless mass and was only removed from the debris after two hours of hard work. Grant was a Nova Scotian by birth, 41 years of age, and had arrived at Blue Canyon from Roslyn only six weeks ago. He leaves a wife and five children.
“His body was crushed into a shapeless mass, and was only removed from the debris after two hours' hard work.”
Industrial fatalities were a common, brutal reality of Washington's coal and timber booms. This story highlights the precarious nature of life for laborers during the 1893 depression.
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