Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-02
Horrible Catastrophe 0vertakes
Great Northern Passengers
Caught Between WashoutS
in Cascade Mountains,
SCENE OF DISASTER CUT
OFF FROM CIVILIZATION
Rescue Trains Unable to Reach
Within Fifteen Miles and De-
tails are Meagre Owing to
ProStration of Wires.

Everett, Wash March Twenty
three persons are known to be dead
twenty-five are missing and scof
are injured as a result of the avail
apchc which swent down the noun
/ tnlnside above wellington at the west
portal of the Cascade tunnel early this
morning and brushed two Great
Northern trains. one the westbound
I Spokane express and the other an
overland mail train. off the narrow
ledge OF the high line. hurting them
60 the bottom OF the canyon, 200 feet
( below. Coupled to the Spokane ex-
press WAS superintendent j. n
/ @ Neill's private car This was car
ried over the precipice with the rest
of the train.
Three locomotives, four powerful
electric motors used 10 haul trains
through the Cascade tunnel, the
depot at Wellington and water tank
also were carried away by the slide
and buried under tons of debris.
Most ot the dead are be-
lieved to have been passen
gers on the westhound Grent
Northern express bound from Spu-
kane to Seattle and which has been
stalled. In the mountains since last
Thursday They were asleep when
the slide came The other train Was
the Transcuntintntal fast mail, which
carried no passengers Twenty bodies
have been recovered, fifteen or twenty
are injured ana twenty-five are miss
ing The two trains were IN charge
" Conductors Farzybook and peitit.
both of Everett. The fate of the train
crews is not known
The private car of superintendent
O'Neill ot the western division Of the
Great Northern was attached 10 the
express and buried with the rest Of
the train.
II is feared A. L. Longeoy. private
secretary to Superintendent O'Neill, Is
among the dead, O'Ncin who has
been dire citing the fight against the
snow blockade for the last ten days,
was not in the car at the time and
injury.
Tho trains were overwhelmed nenr
the west portal OF the Cascade tun-
mel. All telegraph wires are down 20
within fifteen miles of the slide. II
has been impossible To obtain the
names OF the dead and injured
AS soon as word of the disaster
reached Everett, the Great Northern
division point, 100 miles west a res
cue train of physicians and nurses
was started for the scene. This was
followed by a second rescue train car
ryng undertakers wreckng OUTFITS
md labarers. which left Everett at $
o'clock tonight. AS sections OF the
tracks have been carried
away farther down the mountains
he rescuers could only get within tlf-
teen miles of wellington. and had 10
make the remainder OF the distance /
from Scenic. station 700 feet be- |
ow the tunnel by foot through the |
.orturous mountain passa ges. HN taxi |
ing "a tran they can cut this distance I
% three miles.
The avalanche swept down the
shortly after 4 o'clock |
his morning. It was half a mile long |
md the snow, loosened and uprootcd |
rees were piled several feet deep. |
,Iost passengers on the train were +
sleep and received no warning OF the /
Ianger the trains and locomotives
we're buried by the debris and it was
tx hours after the avalanche before
he rescue party made up from work.
rs sent to attack the snow drifts, lo-
atcd them.
Reports received here tonight say
bat the Great Northern power house
fhich furnishes electric power to
perate trains through the Cascade
unncl the depot ana water tank.
,ere swept away by the avalanche
nd that the railroad boarding house
AS badly wrecked. \ number OF the
cad and injured are railroad men
nd residents at Wellington.
The Spukanc express has been
allied at Wellington since last Thurs
ay The passengers have been eat
~ at the railroad boarding house y
nd at nearby cottages but have re- !
lrncd to the Pullmans to spend the
light Two days ago several of the I
a assengers. fearing a catastrophe "l y
lis Kind. asked superintendent
'NeiH to have the train moved back q
.to the Cascade tunnel where ~ y
ould be protected MIR O'Neill is sald I
have declared that the train was
srfectly safe on the siding at Wei
ngton and decided to leave 1t thef'-
Reports as TO the number OF pas
.ngers marooned on the train wary i
ac railroad company claims ln"t ~
lere were only thirty people on lh' p
ain. but men who tired of the dellF :,
I'd walked out over the snow t' u
Svkonish. where they could get
ain. say that there are more 'utn 81 ~
XIV peoule on hoard. BESIDES the =
,ssengers. several trainmcn and la IL
,rers are supposed TO be among the
'ad or injured
with Scenic. the p
arrest noint to the scene of the DIS u
ter was established late tonight ana ~
q names OF a. few of the dead ana
iured vere received. Those report o.
dead are;
A. L. Blackburn. Ever
/, Wash. ~
4 G. Longcoy. secretary 70 superin- ~
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