Day 1: Wednesday
Day 2: Thursday
Day 3: Friday
Day 4: Saturday
Day 5: Sunday
Day 6: Monday
Day 7: Tuesday
The Aftermath
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DAY 1
Wednesday, February 23, 1910
Leavenworth, Washington
1:30 a.m.-2:30 a.m.
Despite mammoth snows, the Great Northern's James O'Neill gives the go-ahead to take the Seattle Express and a Fast Mail Train behind it, both filled with people, up into the Cascade mountains.
Cascade Tunnel Station, Wellington Washington
7:00 a.m.
Passengers and rail workers on the trains awaken to find themselves stalled near the Cascade Tunnel station, snowed in on all sides. They take meals at a beanery nearby.
A view of Wellington, around 1910, with the avalanche slope visible straight ahead. (Courtesy of the Museum of History & Industry, Seattle)
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