Krist, Gary.
The white cascade the Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche Gary Krist. - 1st Holt Paperbacks ed. - New York Holt Paperbacks 2008, c2007. - xii, 315 p. : ill. maps ; 21 cm.
Includes Index and Bibliography
Author's note -- Maps -- Prologue: A late thaw -- Railroad 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: A final note on the Wellington avalanche -- Appendix: A Wellington roster.
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit the Northwest. High in the Cascade Mountains, near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars marooned, buried in rising drifts on the edge of a steep ravine. Days later, with the effort to rescue the trains continuing, a colossal avalance tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside.
9780805083293 (pbk.) 0805083294 (pbk.)
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--History.
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)
Avalanches--History--Washington (State)--20th century.
Railroad accidents--History--Washington (State)--20th century.
Avalanches--History.--Washington (State)
Railroad accidents--History.--Washington (State)
Avalanches.
Railroad accidents.
Washington (State)
979.777 Kri 15
The white cascade the Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche Gary Krist. - 1st Holt Paperbacks ed. - New York Holt Paperbacks 2008, c2007. - xii, 315 p. : ill. maps ; 21 cm.
Includes Index and Bibliography
Author's note -- Maps -- Prologue: A late thaw -- Railroad 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: A final note on the Wellington avalanche -- Appendix: A Wellington roster.
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit the Northwest. High in the Cascade Mountains, near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars marooned, buried in rising drifts on the edge of a steep ravine. Days later, with the effort to rescue the trains continuing, a colossal avalance tumbled down, sweeping the trains over the steep slope and down the mountainside.
9780805083293 (pbk.) 0805083294 (pbk.)
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--History--20th century.
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)--History.
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)
Avalanches--History--Washington (State)--20th century.
Railroad accidents--History--Washington (State)--20th century.
Avalanches--History.--Washington (State)
Railroad accidents--History.--Washington (State)
Avalanches.
Railroad accidents.
Washington (State)
979.777 Kri 15