01733cam a2200289 4500 1163300634 TxAuBib 20070313120000.0 060707s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2006049047 9780805077056 0805077057 TxAuBib Krist, Gary. The white cascade : the Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche / Gary Krist. Great Northern Railway disaster and America's deadliest avalanche. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2007. xii, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index. "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. 20070313. Great Northern Railway Company (U.S) History 20th century. Avalanches Washington (State) History 20th century. Railroad accidents Washington (State) History 20th century. TXKIP