Up to Twenty Buried in the Eagle Gorge Slide
While clearing a washout on the Northern Pacific near Eagle Gorge, a repair crew was caught by a landslide; only a few bodies were recovered, and as many as twenty were feared swept into the Green River.
While workmen were repairing the damage done to the Northern Pacific road by the washout near Eagle Gorge last week, a landslide occurred, burying a number of the laborers. While the bodies of only a few have been recovered, it is believed that upwards of twenty were either covered by the slide or swept into Green River and drowned.
“While the bodies of only a few have been recovered, it is believed that upwards of twenty were either covered by the slide or swept into Green River and drowned.”
Railroad and construction crews still work in steep, unstable river corridors, and landslides remain one of Washington's deadliest natural hazards. The Eagle Gorge slide is a reminder that the infrastructure we rely on was built by laborers whose names rarely made the paper.
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