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Calamities
La Conner
Lynden
Olympia
Loss of the Barks "J. Merithew", "Mendora", and supposed loss of the Brig "Vandalia"
Columbian »
2/5/1853 » Page 2 » Column 3
Port Townsend
Seattle
Snohomish
[A short time since, the fire swept through all the old logging works]
Northern Star »
8/24/1878 » Page 4 » Column 1
Spokane
Frightful Accident -- The Careless Handling of a Loadeed Gun Results in the Death of E.P. Fox
Spokane Falls Review »
9/15/1883 » Page 3 » Column 4
Steilacoom
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Notes of News -- Brief Paragraphs Taken from the Telegraph Wires -- What the World at Large is Doing
Yakima Herald »
5/16/1889 » Page 2 » Column 3
Stricken Seattle -- The Business Quarter of the Queen City of the Sound in Ruins
Yakima Herald »
6/13/1889 » Page 2 » Column 4
The Origin of the Fire -- A Bucket of Water at a Time When It was not Needed in Seattle
Yakima Herald »
6/27/1889 » Page 4 » Column 1
Notes of News -- Brief Paragraphs Taken from the Telegraph Wires -- What the World at Large is Doing
Yakima Herald »
6/27/1889 » Page 2 » Column 2
Ellensburgh's Hard Fate -- She Loses the Business Portion of the Town by Fire
Yakima Herald »
7/11/1889 » Page 3 » Column 4
The Fire's Feast -- Splendid Spokane Bows Down in Ashes Before the Flames
Yakima Herald »
8/8/1889 » Page 2 » Column 3
Startling Statistics -- a Half Year that Was Rough on Insurance Companies
Yakima Herald »
8/15/1889 » Page 4 » Column 1
Spokane's Lost $5,000,000 -- That is What Freight Agent Fulton Was Told by Well Informed Men
Yakima Herald »
8/15/1889 » Page 2 » Column 3
Immense Forest Fires -- A Sea of Firemen Extending from British Columbia Line to the Stampede Pass
Yakima Herald »
8/29/1889 » Page 6 » Column 2
A Runaway Freight : Collision of a Caboose and Passenger Engine -- One Man Killed
Yakima Herald »
4/24/1890 » Page 2 » Column 3
Cle-Elum's Hard Luck - She Encounters the Fire Fiend and Half of the Town Succumbs
Yakima Herald »
7/23/1891 » Page 3 » Column 3
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