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4 stories
- The Wellington Disaster
A massive snowslide buries two Great Northern trains in the Cascades, marking one of the deadliest rail disasters in Washington history.
- The Wellington Avalanche Tragedy
Recovery efforts continue at the site of the Great Northern Railroad disaster, where snow and debris buried trains and crews.
- "An Act of Providence": State Clears the Great Northern for the Wellington Dead
After a joint inquiry with the coroner's jury into the Wellington disaster, the state railroad commission finds the train crew did everything reasonable and calls the catastrophe an act of God — then quietly asks engineers to study the grade.
- Labor paper blasts Great Northern over disaster wages
An editorial criticizes the railroad for paying poverty wages to workers clearing snow in the aftermath of the deadly Wellington avalanche.