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The white cascade

by Krist, Gary.
Edition statement:1st Holt Paperbacks ed. Published by : Holt Paperbacks (New York ) Physical details: xii, 315 p. : ill. maps ; 21 cm. ISBN:9780805083293 (pbk.); 0805083294 (pbk.).
Subject(s): Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century. | Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- History. | Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) | Avalanches -- Washington (State) -- History -- 20th century. | Railroad accidents -- Washington (State) -- History -- 20th century. | Avalanches -- Washington (State) -- History. | Railroad accidents -- Washington (State) -- History. | Avalanches. | Railroad accidents. | Washington (State) | History.
Year: 2007
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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.