Wellington Avalanche Disaster - 5

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

A view looking northeast from the avalanche track back to Wellington shows the depot (center) and the hotel (left) that narrowly escaped destruction. Many workers killed in the Avalanche believed sleeping in the train was safer than staying in the hotel. 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.