Wellington, Washington | |
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 Wellington depot before the 1910 avalanche | |
  Wellington  Wellington | |
| Coordinates: 47°44′58″N 121°07′10″W / 47.74944°N 121.11944°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Washington |
| County | King |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
Wellington (later known as Tye) was a small unincorporated railroad community in the northwest United States, on the Great Northern Railway in northeastern King County, Washington.[1]
Founded in 1893, it was located in the Cascade Range at the west portal of the original Cascade Tunnel under Stevens Pass. It was the site of the 1910 Wellington avalanche, the worst in U.S. history, in which 96 people died.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
- ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Archived from the original on March 28, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
- ^ Mapes, Lynda V. (February 27, 2010). "1910 Stevens Pass avalanche still deadliest in U.S. history". Seattle Times. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
- ^ Lange, Greg (January 26, 2003). "Train disaster at Wellington kills 96 on March 1, 1910". HistoryLink.org. (essay 5127). Retrieved June 22, 2017.
- ^ "Slide buries trains; 20 die". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 2, 1910. p. 1.[dead link]
- ^ "Sixty are dead in train horror". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). March 2, 1910. p. 1.
- ^ "One hundred dead at Wellington". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). March 3, 1910. p. 1.
- ^ "Suffocated in sleep". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). March 4, 1910. p. 1.
- ^ "Find ten alive in buried car". Chicago Daily Tribune. March 4, 1910. p. 1.[dead link]
- ^ Ballard C. Campbell: 1910 Wellington avalanche and railway disaster. In: Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events. Infobase Publishing, 2008, p. 209.