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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1910
Page
3
In March heavy meltwater pushed waters toward river valleys and towns. Residents report rising flood levels across streets and businesses as banks overflow and roads become impassable. Local authorities urge caution as erosion and swift currents threaten several areas.
An avalanche covered ten miles of the water flume for the power company harming the line. If the game cannot be tied the streetcar service in Seattle and Tacoma will be crippled today.
A Spokane ledge slide stranded a Seattle bound train. Rogers and many passengers escaped to Scenic Hot Springs aided by conductor Petit. Notable survivors include Judge Jan McNeany and Pacific Coast Pipe treasurer Charles Ebtings. Families left behind await word on missing husband and father.
The International Institute of Wireless Telegraphy in Seattle promotes post graduate courses in Wireless Construction, Engineering, and apparatus manufacture. A Home Study Wireless course is available and a special summer program for high school students is announced with low tuition and illustrated magazine The Ethogram.
Macques in the police court plead they are respectable citizens. They learned through the press of his defense of criminals against Seattle laws. The public knows of the Gill clique and their unlawful measures and privileges. Gill declared on the city council floor that he did not care if a measure was lawful he wanted it passed. They know of his ties to the contractors' combine on Seattle street improvements.
Disaster strikes near Wellington as a mountain avalanche wrecks a railway train. Rescue teams race through snowdrifts, with Beenie and Skykomish areas cut off by downed wires and blocked tracks. A relief train travels on snowbound routes seeking survivors and victims.
Jeune Wilder, a brakeman traveling from Wellington toward Econie Hot Springs, was buried by a mountain snowslide but survived. He walked away from the train, was struck, and later rescued with a dislocated knee and torn tendons yet remained otherwise unharmed.
Hoquiam March 2 Entrenched on a hill overlooking Tahotah village Fred Pope the Indian who ran amuck yesterday near the Quinault reservation and killed two men today defies authorities to arrest him Deputy United States Marshal Joe Statter of Tacoma has gone to the scene Pope is expected to fight to the death He wrote a note threatening to kill Chief Tahola his son William Washington Alderman a policeman Mrs Hawke Joe Chenoise and daughter and then kill himself after the killings of Adam Mawk and Holt William
Spokane can share word that W. Merritt of Spokane, a passenger on the Great Northern train during the Williamson slide, has been heard from by local business associates. Early reports suggest slight injuries and his escape from wreckage to a telegraph station, while an official with the Pacific Canal Pipe Company believes a man named Millage may be among the dead. Merritt had not yet been located, though he was on the train.
Geo W Loveberry of Georgetown reports heavy snow slides on the mountain sides endangering every foot of track. He describes trees uprooted and boulders torn from cliffs with ongoing explosions as trains stall and the area braces for weeks of danger. He even offered a guide fee to escape.
John Winehell a railroad employee sleeping in the bunk house near the tunnel awoke to a train derailment that hurled the bunk house into a canyon. He witnessed a body being carried from the scene and fled toward Blykormish in shock as the wreckage tumbled down the mountain, leaving his head missing after the slide.
George W. Lovweberry, proprietor of the Georgetown fale and Peed Statle, was the first to leave the train and reach safety amid heavy snow. Accompanied by Superintendent O Neill and Rae, they laboriously climbed the snow shed 1600 feet above Beente Hot Springs, tore boards from the roof, and descended the hill to the springs after reaching the shed top.
A catalog style listing offers blue enameled bread pans and cookware plus other kitchen items. Included are trays pots kettles bowls bins and irons with prices and descriptions such as three pint capacity blue enamel ware and white interiors.
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