I’m literally posting this because I am lacking something for this week’s second post. I was hoping to find a tsunami map for Budd Inlet or some reflection on homeless students, but came up short.

I had nothing prepared, nothing inspirational for you. So, this is just a smidge of some Smith Troy out of context and some interesting video.

From Historylink:

On Wednesday afternoon, June 27, 1934, 10 people are killed and seven
are injured when two explosions demolish the J. A. Denn Powder Company
plant on Hawk’s Prairie, eight miles east of Olympia.  An 11th victim,
the company chemist, will die from his injuries the following day. 
Thurston County authorities investigate the accident, but so little of
the plant remains that the official cause will remain a mystery.

…

Smith Troy, the Thurston County coroner as well as a deputy county
prosecutor, began an immediate investigation of the disaster.  He was
assisted in the inquest by Claude Havens, Thurston County Sheriff;
William A. Sullivan, Washington State Insurance Commissioner, acting as
ex-officio state fire marshal; and E. Patrick Kelly, Washington State
Director of Labor and Industries.


During an interview, Troy told reporters: “So little remains of the
plant and surrounding buildings, about all we can hope to do is
question survivors.  It will be difficult to determine the causes, but
we may discover who, if anybody, was responsible for the blast” (The Seattle Times).