Vis Major: Railroad Men, and Act of God-White Death at Wellington

Vis Major: Railroad Men, and Act of God-White Death at Wellington

Avalanches -- Fiction. Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) -- Fiction. Railroad stories. Historical fiction. Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) Avalanches. Great Northern Railway Company.

At 1:43 a.m., March 1, 1910, a wall of snow descended on two Great Northern Railway trains stalled in the town of Wellington, Washington. Ninety-six people died in a single moment. To this day, the Wellington Slide remains North America's worst avalanche disaster. Although other accounts of this monumental event exist, none are told entirely from the perspective of the railroad men who battled the week-long blizzard leading up to the tragedy. Vis Major gives voice to those men.

Burwash, Martin

iUniverse, Inc.

2009

PS3602.U785 V57

2003.500.4557