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[Great Northern Wellington disaster]
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| Title | [Great Northern Wellington disaster] |
| Accession ID number | 1943.42.17459 |
| 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 | Men stand among downed trees that cover Great Northern mail train no. 27. The train was swept 150 feet into a ravine below the tracks at Wellington by the avalanche of March 1, 1910 |
| Subject | Great Northern Railway; Wellington, WA; King County; snow; avalanche; train wreck; disaster; worker, rescue |
| Remarks | Wellington, Washington, located at the west protal of the old Cascade tunnel 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, 15 cars and six engines of two Great Northern trains, the Spokane passenger local no. 25 and the fast mail train no. 27, were swept 150 feet down Windy Mountain by an avalanche. Eight passengers and 16 railway men were found alive. The dead included 35 passengers and 61 laborers and trainmen. The Great Northern later spent 25 million dollars to build a new tunnel at a lower elevation. |
| 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 |
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