Wellington Avalanche Disaster - 1

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

An avalanche in Wellington swept two trains and a yard full of railroad equipment down into a creek bed. 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.