Search for Lost Safe Tacoma Harbor 1895

[jeff of pa]

The daily morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.), 28 July 1895.



https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=278

 

[trdking]

Wonder if they ever found it? Want to go to Tacoma?

 

[jeff of pa]

I did a search for the words “Tacoma Harbor Lost Safe”
and that was the only hit between 1836 and 1963 of all states newspapers available.

0 results on “Tacoma Harbor found Safe”

So if it was Found, It apparently wasn't considered Newsworthy

 

[trdking]

EEEEEYE smell a road trip

 

[MotherOfGeeks]

Nice, this is just up the road from me. Tacoma is still a large and busy port. You would have to seriously narrow it down.

 

[galenrog]

Not only is Tacoma a large and busy port, the harbor bottom is littered with hundreds of tons of metal debris from decades gone by.

Too late for more coffee.

 

[Dzrt1st]

Here is more info on the lost safe. I also could find no info as to whether it was ever recovered.

https://www.tacomalibrary.org/blogs/post/disaster-on-commencement-bay/

http://www.gendisasters.com/washington/479/tacoma%2C-wa-puget-sound-landslide%2C-dec-1894

From The Seattle P-I Nov 29 1894


From The Washington Standard Nov 30, 1894


From the Seattle P-I May 17, 1895


From the Seattle P-I July 6, 1895


And a side note on "Diver Baldwin" who was searching for this safe, later died while working a sunken ship in the harbor-

From the Seattle P-I Aug 18, 1899