News; Washington Voices; Landmarks: Avalanche caused historic train disaster. Ten of 96 killed in 1910 are buried in area cemeteries. Thu., Aug. 25, 2011 Richard C. Bogart died in the Wellington ...

EVERETT — On March 1, 1910, just after midnight an avalanche came barreling down Windy Mountain, above Tye Creek ... Looking back on the Wellington train disaster, 100 years later. By Debra ...

According to a list compiled by 24/7 Wall St., the "worst natural disaster" record in Washington is the Wellington Avalanche of March 1910, which had 96 fatalities after two trains were swept into ...

WELLINGTON, Wash. — The deadliest avalanche in U.S. history happened 111 years ago in the Cascades, killing 96 people. At the end of February 1910, a blizzard hit for nine straight days.

The Wellington Avalanche devastated a small railroad town near Stevens Pass in east King County in 1910. Timeline. In the ...

The avalanche disaster prompted construction of a second Cascade tunnel under Stevens Pass. This longer, 7.8 mile tunnel was cut through the mountains at a much lower elevation, just under 2,900 feet.