Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Alaska, bands, baseball, Bellingham, Black Diamond, Briquetville, Buckley, Burnett, Carbonado, Central Council, churches, coal mining, Confectionery, Enumclaw, fires, hospital, hotels, Kanaskat, Kennydale, King County, Krain, Lake 12, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Northern Pacific Railroad, Odd Fellows, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Engineering Co., Pacific Coast Railroad, parade, Pierce County, Pool Hall, Port Townsend, Puyallup, Ravensdale, Renton, resorts, schools, Seattle, Selleck, Tacoma, University of Washington, Yakima on May 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, May 15, 1929
Some outfit in the Mountain League may stop this steam-rolling bunch from Black Diamond. The way they are travelling now it is going to take a couple of barricades and few barrages to turn the trick. Bill Cushing is certainly leading a smooth working, snappy bunch of socking sluggers. They don’t do much beefing but, brother, they do a man’s size job of biffing.”
(more…)Posted in Buildings, People, Towns, tagged fires, Hobart, Issaquah, Kent, Renton on May 10, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, May 10, 1937
Five hours of desperate firefighting by volunteers and equipment from nearby towns yesterday saved the town of Hobart, nine miles from Issaquah, which was threatened by a fire which destroyed four homes.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged baseball, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, brick plant, Briquetville, Bryn Mawr, Buckley, Carbonado, cemetery, Central Council, churches, coal mining, dances, Eatonville, Enumclaw, Gladding McBean, Hobart, hospital, Kapowsin, Krain, mine accidents, mining safety, Mount Rainier, Naches Pass, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Orting, Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Cement Co., Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pierce County, Puget Power, Ravensdale, Renton, schools, Seattle, soccer, White River Lumber Company, Wilkeson on May 1, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, May 1, 1929
The above is a front view of Enumclaw’s Municipal Building. Every public structure in this thriving city is a joy to the eye. Their store buildings, their churches, their splendid and impressive schools, all speak volumes for prosperity and civic pride.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, People, Towns, tagged dancing, fires, fishing, Lake Wilderness, Maple Valley, resorts on April 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
By JoAnne Matsumura
Lake Wilderness Lodge offers many amenities in the days prior to 1923 as it does today. There is boating, fishing, hiking, dancing, and splendid food all vying with one another to offer entertainment for those who love the outdoors.
It has always been picturesque with relaxing views, plenty of activities and fine music for dancing.
Sadly, on April 26, 1923, the entire building and contents owned by Mrs. Carrie Clarke of Seattle were totally destroyed by fire.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, People, Towns, tagged Cascade Mountains, Cedar River, Enumclaw, logging, Renton, sawmill, Seattle, Selleck, Selleck School, Stampede Pass, watershed on April 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 15, 1953
In a herculean rescue effort by air and land, all 19 survivors of the 25 persons aboard a twin-engine DC-3 transport plane which crashed at the base of a snow-covered Cascade Mountains peak near Selleck were brought out Tuesday night.
The wreck occurred early Tuesday morning.
The Army-chartered Miami Airlines plane, carrying soldiers and a crew of three from the East Coast to Seattle, crashed 40 miles southeast of Seattle in the rugged Cedar River watershed, 10 miles east of Selleck, in a blinding snowstorm. The flight began at Washington, D.C.
Six men were killed, according to the Army and Coast Guard. Lt. Cmdr. Robert T. Norris, coordinator of the rescue operation.
They were the pilot and copilot, Capt. A.J. Lerette Jr. and William E. Harshman, both of Miami, and four soldiers whose names were withheld pending notification of next of kin.
In shuttle tuns, helicopters carried out survivors, many of them injured seriously. Trucks took over the burden after darkness grounded the helicopter.
The first two survivors brought out were Adra Bebe Long, stewardess, Miami Fla., and Pvt. Odell Matthew of Washington D.C. Both struggled out through deep snow for help before being found and picked up.
M.E. Merett, sanitation patrolman for the Seattle Water Department, picked up Mrs. Long and took her to Selleck in a station wagon.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Towns, tagged Black Diamond, briquets, Briquetville, bunkers, coal mining, Lake Washington, Mine #11, Renton, Seattle, South Prairie, washery on April 8, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in The Seattle Daily Times, April 8, 1923
Why does nearly everyone make a joke of the coal business every winter?
John Jones notices that his neighbor, Sam Green, is getting a ton of the fuel put into his basement and makes a remark to his wife about the extravagances of the Greens or about the scarcity of coal. Sometimes the remark is rather bitter, especially when men speak of coal prices.
Did you ever go through a coal mine and follow a lump of coal to its final state? Are you one of the great army of those who believe that coal is as much a natural product as corn on the cob? Would you like to have a little coal mine in your back yard, so that you could just step out a few feet from your back door and fill a couple of buckets of the mineral whenever you needed it?
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Mining, Towns, tagged Black Diamond, churches, Landsburg, mine accidents, Ravensdale on April 5, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 5, 1954
BLACK DIAMOND, April 4—A lighted cross was dedicated in First Presbyterian Church here today as a memorial to Harry English, Black Diamond miner whose body lies in an accidental tomb.
English’s final resting place is deep in the Landsburg Mine at nearby Ravensdale, where he was trapped in a cave-in 3 months ago.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged Black Diamond, briquets, Burnett, Central Council, coal mining, Ellensburg, hotels, King County, Newcastle, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Company, Pacific Coast Railroad, Renton, Seattle, wash plants on March 24, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 23, 1923
One hundred and fifty-six Pacific Coast Coal Company dealers, from Washington and Oregon, the largest number of fuel men ever assembled from the two states, visited mines and other plants of the company at Newcastle, Renton, Black Diamond, and Burnett yesterday.
Calling them fuel men is a misnomer because the delegation included one woman, Mrs. Agnes Shano of Ellensburg, said to be the only woman coal dealer in the Northwest.
(more…)Posted in Buildings, Businesses, Mining, People, Railroads, Towns, tagged baseball, basketball, Black Diamond, Black Diamond High School, briquets, Briquetville, Bryn Mawr, bunkers, Bureau of Mines, Burnett, Carbonado, cemetery, Central Council, churches, coal mining, Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad, company store, dances, doctors, Fairfax, Franklin, German, Green River Eagles, hospital, Irish, Italians, Japanese, Kent, King County, Masonic Hall, mine accidents, mining safety, New Black Diamond, Newcastle, Oregon Improvement Co., Pacific Coast Bulletin, Pacific Coast Coal Co., Pacific Coast Railroad, Primrose, Puget Sound, Pythian Sisters, Renton, San Francisco, schools, Scotch, Seattle, soccer, Tacoma, University of Washington on March 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Originally published in the Pacific Coast Bulletin, March 15, 1929
Part of the marine bunker crew lined up on the south dock of the electric bunkers. Those in the front row are all bunkermen.
Front row, reading from left to right: Pete McDonald, M.J. Hayes, Thomas Murphy, G.F. Cranston, William Clark, G. Brown, E.L. Atkins, Hossis Hasson, M. Kearney. Back row, left to right: Harry Cogeshall, bunker superintendent; M.A. Puries, crane helper; Curtis Crenshaw, crane operator; Ed. Berkman, bunkerman; John Kambitsch, bunkerman; and Charles Bishop, crane helper.
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