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The Aftermath
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DAY 6
Monday, February 28, 1910
Morning
Unbeknownst to O'Neill, two groups of passengers leave the train and make it to the town of Scenic where the Conductor of the Seattle Express sends a telegraph back to trains to signal a passable trail. When the message fails to go through, Conductor Petit returns to the trains to deliver the news.
Evening
Petit learns that 34 passengers have signed a formal petition asking O'Neill to meet them to formulate a plan of escape. But O'Neill ignores their request. The Trainmaster, however, allows some rail workers to help able-bodied male passenger escape to Scenic the next morning.
Salvage efforts went on for weeks after the avalanche. Most of the wooden train cars were totally annihilated ("as if an elephant had stepped on a cigar box," as one witness put it), but the much heavier locomotives suffered surprisingly little damage. (Courtesy of the Jerry Quinn Collection)
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