Railroad Men, an ‘Act of God’—White Death at Wellington
by
Martin Burwash
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
At 1:43 a.m., March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington. Ninety-six people died in a single moment. To this day, the Wellington Slide remains North Americas worst avalanche disaster. Although other accounts of this monumental...