Wellington Avalanche Disaster - 6

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

Rescue workers had to carry the bodies for 3 miles to the town of Scenic. 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.