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- Deaths should lower in mines - total is 19 in Coeur d'Alene mines - 486 accidents during year
- 1919
- Deaths should lower in mines - total is 19 in Coeur d'Alene mines - 486 accidents during year - During the last year there were 19 fatal accidents in or about the mines in the Coeur d'Alenes, as compared to 24 in 1917. This represents a...
- Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1919-03-13
- Two men hurt at Coulee dam
- 1936
- Two men hurt at Coulee dam. - Truck runs over driver and timber cracks skull of marathon swimmer. - Two men suffered serious injury at the Grand Coulee dam Friday in accidents coming close on the heels of Thursday's acetylene plant explosion which...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-02-23
- Two causes of two accidents.
- 1935
- Two causes of two accidents. Workman injured by sawing self off perch and another on cable slide. - Some people are said to have gotten to the end of a limb of a tree and then sawed it off.
  Others have been said to be able to lift themselves...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Falls. 1935-03-08
- Idaho mine deaths grow - seven more lives lost in 1927 than in 1926
- 1928
- Idaho mine deaths grow - seven more lives lost in 1927 than in 1926 - An increase of seven deaths in mine accidents in 1927 over 1926 was shown in the annual report of the state mines inspector, released today.
- Northwest history. Mining. Accidents. 1928-04-29
- Auto is wrecked by huge boulder in Coulee blast.
- 1934
- Auto is wrecked by huge boulder in Coulee blast. - Thrown nearly a quarter mile by a blast, a 50-pound rock crashed through the top of the back of a sedan located on the road leading to the old Ryan spoilbanks, yesterday.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1934-01-05
- Huge boulder saves driver from river.
- 1934
- Huge boulder saves driver from river. - A kingdom was lost, so the story books say, for the loss of a horse shoe nail.
  Here at the dam a truck driver was very nearly lost, had it not been for a large boulder, conveniently placed.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1934-12-29
- Boulder averts plunge.
- 1934
- Boulder averts plunge. - A large boulder played an important part in saving a truck driver at least from an icy bath in the Columbia.
  Coming down the hill to the east approach of the bridge, which was covered by ice and snow, a one-ton truck,...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1934-12-29
- Rolling truck crushes driver.
- 1935
- Rolling truck crushes driver. - Robert Reeder, 25, in hospital--Coffer inspector mysteriously injured. - Robert Reeder, 25, a truck driver, is in the Carmichel hospital here with a badly crushed chest, a fractured left arm and possible internal...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-04-24
- 2 men injured at Coulee dam.
- 1935
- 2 men injured at Coulee dam. - Robert Reeder, 25, a truck driver is in serious condition at the hospital here today after injuries suffered Monday night when his truck rolled over him when it left a grade. His chest was badly crushed and his left...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-04-24
- Pair severely hurt in crash.
- 1935
- Pair severely hurt in crash. - A. J. White, 52, and Harry Griffiths, 50, riveters, were severely injured when their car turned end over end several times here today.
  Witnesses said the men apparently lost control of the car near the Coulee Dam...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-07-28
- Auto victim near death.
- 1935
- Auto victim near death. - A. J. White, 52, riveter for J. H. Pomeroy & Co., Inc., was still unconscious late today in the Mason City hospital, following injuries suffered in an auto accident late Saturday. Little hope is held for his recovery.
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- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-07-30
- Grand Coulee dam residents victims when car crashes.
- 1935
- Grand Coulee dam residents victims when car crashes. - Carl J. Russel, 33, Grand Coulee druggist, and W. P. Foley, 34, excavation foreman for the MWAK company, were killed in an automobile accident on the east side of Moses coulee near Waterville...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-08-05
- Coulee truck driver killed
- 1935
- Coulee truck driver killed. - Ray Bailey, 27, Coulee City, truck driver for MWAK, was killed Wednesday night when the truck he was driving went off the edge of the downstream crossriver cofferdam into the Columbia river.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1935-12-17
- Man, run over by truck, in hospital.
- 1936
- Man, run over by truck, in hospital. - Run over by his own truck, Leo Haase, twenty-eight, of Kelso, was in serious condition at the Mason City hospital today with a fractured pelvis and thigh.
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-02-23
- Grand Coulee area proud of traffic record
- 1936
- Grand Coulee area proud of traffic record. - The Grand Coulee dam area is proud of its automobile accident record.
  State health department records show there was not a fatal accident in the area in 1935, and only one in the two years and five...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-03-13
- Former Omak man is killed
- 1936
- Former Omak man is killed. - Injuries received in a truck accident three weeks ago on the Grand Coulee dam project were fatal today to Thomas Lewis Cosi, 37, Grand Coulee.
  The former Omak resident died in the Mason City hospital of chest and...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-10-13
- Swims for life in raging water.
- 1937
- Swims for life in raging water. - Lifeguard makes shore after boat upsets in fast diversion channel. - Roland Teghtmaier, MWAK lifesaver had a narrow escape from death yesterday, it was learned today when his boat capsized in the middle of the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Boats. 1937-11-10
- Stove explodes; worker is dead
- 1937
- Stove explodes; worker is dead. - George Davis Crocker, 29, of Minneapolis died of severe burns this morning, the result of an explosion of an alcohol stove, in the MWAK mess hall, with which he and a companion, also badly burned, were singeing...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Burns. 1937-10-02
- Died from injury at dam.
- 1936
- Died from injury at dam. - Walter Lash, 21, of Bremerton, a MWAK company laborer, died at Mason City hospital from an injury received from a fall four days after he had started work. His skull was fractured, and spinal meningitis developed. Since...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Falls. 1936-01-31
- Died from injury at dam.
- 1936
- Died from injury at dam. - Walter Lash, 21, of Bremerton, a MWAK company laborer, died at Mason City hospital from an injury received from a fall four days after he had started work. His skull was fractured, and spinal meningitis developed. Since...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Falls. 1936-01-31