Wellington Avalanche Disaster - 3

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.