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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The Aftermath
Over the next few days workers would extract the bodies of the dead, bundling them in Great Northern blankets to hide the gruesome sight of their mangled remains and towing them down the mountain on sleds. The Wellington avalanche, the deadliest disaster of its kind in US history, claimed the lives of 96 men, women and children.
Tied to rugged Alaskan sleds, bodies were evacuated down the right-of-way in groups of a dozen at a time. Each sled was maneuvered by four men with ropes, two ahead and two behind. Once they reached the top of Dead Man's Slide near Windy Point, they were lowered by rope to a train waiting at Scenic below. (Courtesy of the Robert Kelly Collection)
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