Wellington Avalanche Disaster - 2

Photo from the Everett Public Library Juleen Collection. An amateur photographer at the time, John Juleen took the earliest photos of the aftermath.

It took until the summer of 1910 for workers to recover all 96 bodies killed in the avalanche. On the night of March 1, 1910, two Great Northern trains (passenger train local #25 and fast mail train #27) were buried in an avalanche near the town of Wellington, Washington, situated in the Cascade Mountains.