This Week In History: Jan. 9-14

Posted 1/15/25

The following short items have been culled from the archives of The Leader and the University of Washington library. Text and style appear verbatim from the original printing, including any errors.

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This Week In History: Jan. 9-14

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The following short items have been culled from the archives of The Leader and the University of Washington library. Text and style appear verbatim from the original printing, including any errors.

 

Jan. 9, 1913

Wires All Down

Telephone and Telegraph Lines Prostrated by Storms

Were it not for the fact that the Western Union has cable communication with Victoria,, Port Townsend would have been completely cut off yesterday from all communication with the outside points. Both the Postal and Western Union direct wires to Seattle were out of commission at some point South of Port Ludlow as were the lines of the Sunset and Independent Telephone companies. The Farmers Telephone Co.’s lines were also down, preventing communication with the country districts. A fierce southwest gale struck the Sound country early yesterday morning, being especially severe up-Sound.

 

Jan. 9, 1917

BAD ACCIDENT ON RAILROAD –

Three Killed and Twenty-Three Hurt in Wreck

TRAIN ROLLED FOR 150 FEET -Soft Dirt Under Track Gave Way Under Construction Train

A serious accident occurred on the new Twin extension of the Seattle, Port Angeles and Western railroad at eight o’clock yesterday morning, in which three men were killed and twenty-three were injured. The accident was caused by the caving in of the soft dirt under one side of the track, the engine and tool car composing the construction train leaving the track and rolling down 150-foot fill.

Jan. 12, 2000

County bridge taking shape – Old Gardiner Road gap being spanned

Contractors are pounding steel pilings and moving dirt to complete a 300-linear-foot wooden bridge that will connect a section of Old Gardiner Road washed away three years ago.

“It’s going to be kind of a unique bridge out here by itself,” said Mace Thompson, job supervisor with Mowat Construction, general contractor for the Jefferson County project.

When the bridge in Old Gardiner Road- the original Olympic Peninsula Highway- five miles north of Discovery Bay will be finished depends on where a pair of bald eagles choose to nest. The “eagle nesting window” closure could be as short as one month, but if the eagles next too close to the job site, work could be halted for five or six months.

Jan. 14, 2015

Stennis surge – a slow start

Monday a normal night for PT restaurants, despite expectations

Restaurants staffed up and stayed open later than normal Monday night in anticipation of as many as 1,000 Navy sailors coming ashore to drink beer, eat out and watch Oregon take on Ohio State in the NCAA college football championship game. But for most, that first night was a bust.

“I can’t afford to do that again because that was a total loss,” Silverwater Cafe co-owner Alison Hero said Tuesday after not a single sailor came in Monday evening. “We had made a ton of extra food. We were staffed up as if it were going to be a Wooden Boat Festival weekend. I think our normal clientele stayed home because they thought there would be 1,000 sailors downtown.”

– Compiled by Deborah Hayes