1910 Wellington avalanche

Two Great Northern trains had come west through the Cascade Tunnel and were held near the railway town in King County, Washington, after snow blocked the line during a nine-day blizzard. In the hours after midnight a mass of snow came off Windy Mountain, which stood above the unsheltered station, and carried both trains into the canyon about 150 feet below the tracks. Railway employees and other residents dug for survivors through the following day, and help from outside did not reach the site until the night of 2 March.

Date
1910-03-01
Deaths (Wikipedia list, low end where it gives a range)
96
What the pin marks
Wellington, the railway town at the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel where the avalanche swept two trains off the line, as the cited page positions it.
Where the position is published
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington,_Washington

Category: Disasters & Incidents

Tags: railway, cascade mountains, washington, blizzard

Coordinates: 47.74944, -121.11944

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