A Walking Boss Vanishes in the Blueslide Tunnel
Prosecutor and deputy ride out to Blueslide to investigate the disappearance of Eli Anderson — but by the time they arrive, the witnesses have scattered.
County Prosecutor Kirkpatrick and Deputy Sheriff Hynes, of Stevens County, went to Blueslide on Saturday to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Eli Anderson, a walking boss employed in the tunnel at that place. Most of the parties who had been connected with the disappearance had departed, so the officials could not ascertain anything on which to base a complaint.
“Most of the parties who had been connected with the disappearance had departed, so the officials could not ascertain anything on which to base a complaint.”
The Blueslide tunnel is gone now, but the pattern it left — a worker swallowed up at a remote jobsite, investigators arriving only to find the witnesses already gone — still rhymes with the region's logging, mining and construction camps. Then as now, a laborer who vanished in an out-of-the-way place could disappear without a trace and without a resolution.
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