The Deadliest Avalanche in U.S. History. Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.

In 1910, two trains became stranded in Washington’s Cascade Mountains during a record-breaking snowstorm. After six harrowing nights, a massive avalanche swept them off the mountainside — the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history. More than a century later, one question still lingers: could the disaster have been prevented?

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Sources 

“A ‘haunted hike’ brings Washington disaster to life,” by Courtney Flatt (Northwest Public Broadcasting, 2023).

• “White Death in the Cascades,” by Lauren Tarshis (Scholastic Scope, 2022).

• “The 1910 Wellington Train Disaster,” (Washington Our Home, 2021).

  
  The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche, by Gary Krist (2007).