Blown down trees.
On this date in 1921 the Great Olympic Blowdown occurred in which a massive windstorm blew down 40% of the trees on Olympic Mountain in Washington state, killing 200 Roosevelt Elk. The event remains nearly unparalleled.
More on that event here:
The Great Olympic Blowdown of January 29, 1921
The last siting of the crew of the Carroll A. Deering was made by the Cape Lookout Lightship. Crewmen could be seen on board and a person on board reported the ship had lost its anchor. The lightship keeper photographed the ship. Crewmen were on the quarterdeck where they were generally not allowed. The man who addressed the lightship had a foreign accent and asked the lightship to contact the ship's owners about the anchor. As the lightship's radio was out, it did not do so.
That afternoon another ship spotted the vessel headed for Diamond Shoals, but did not attempt to hail it, assuming that a lighthouse would waive it off.
Two days later the ship was spotted wrecked on Diamond Shoals. Two lifeboats, the logs and the crew's personal effects were nowhere to be found when the ship was capable of being reached several days later.
None of the crew were ever found. Much speculation has occurred on the mystery, but it seems most likely that it suffered a mutiny.
Two men performing bicycle stunts were photographed in Washington, D.C.
As was suffrage art.
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