The white cascade
Subtitle: the Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche
By: Gary Krist
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780805077056
Subjects: Avalanches; Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.); Railroad accidents; History
Other titles: Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche
Description: "In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard hit Washington State. High in the Cascade Mountains near the tiny town of Wellington, two trainloads of cold, hungry passengers and their crews found their railcars buried in rising drifts, parked precariously on the edge of a steep ravine. An army of the Great Northern Railroad's men worked round-the-clock to rescue the trains, but the storm was unrelenting. Suddenly the earth shifted and a colossal avalanche tumbled, sweeping the trains and their sleeping passengers over the steep slope and down the mountainside."--From source other than the Library of Congress
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Maps; title: Prologue: Late thaw; title: rRilroad through the mountains; title: Long straw; title: Last mountains; title: Temporary delay; title: Over the hump; title: Town at the end of the world; title: First loss; title: Closing doors; title: Empire builder looks on; title: Ways of escape; title: Last chances; title: Avalanche; title: "Reddened snow"; title: Inquest; title: Act of god; title: Epilogue: a memory erased; title: Afterword: Final note on the Wellington avalanche; title: Appendix A: Wellington roster; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index.