| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 315 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Author's note -- Maps -- Prologue: Late thaw -- rRilroad through the mountains -- Long straw -- Last mountains -- Temporary delay -- Over the hump -- Town at the end of the world -- First loss -- Closing doors -- Empire builder looks on -- Ways of escape -- Last chances -- Avalanche -- "Reddened snow" -- Inquest -- Act of god -- Epilogue: a memory erased -- Afterword: Final note on the Wellington avalanche -- Appendix A: Wellington roster -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary |
"In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was unrelenting. Suddenly the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside."--From source other than the Library of Congress |
| Subject |
Avalanches -- Washington (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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Railroad accidents -- Washington (State) -- History -- 20th century.
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Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Title |
Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche |
| ISBN |
0805077057 |
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9780805077056 |
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