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Title	[Great Northern Wellington disaster]
Accession ID number	1943.42.17475
Object Type	negative, glass-plate
Creator	Asahel Curtis
Date	March 10, 1910
Rights	Property of the Washington State Historical Society - All Rights Reserved
Full Description	Carrie Phillips hiked from Scenic to Wellington through the snow after the avalanche to be with her husband, Ross, a brakeman on Great Northern no. 2. Ross Philips suffered only a crushed foot and scalded leg in the ordeal.
Subject	Great Northern Railway; Wellington, WA; King County; train wreck; snow; avalanche; disaster; woman
Remarks	Wellington, Washington, located near Stevens Pass in the Cascade Mountains, was the site of one of the worst train disasters in U.S. railroad history. On March 1, 1910 two Great Northern trains, the Spokane passenger local no. 25 and the fast mail train no. 27, were swept off the tracks by an avalanche killing 96 people.
Electronic Publisher	Washington State Historical Society
Description	glass
Condition	fair
Dimension	height: 5 inches; width: 7 inches
File Characteristics	Negative scanned on a Microtek ArtixScan 1800f scanner at 600 ppi grayscale tiff and resized to a 300 jpeg