What the records say
- When
- 1 Mar 1910
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 47.75° N, 121.13° W
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 96
Wellington, Washington
Ghost town in Washington (state)
Wellington was a small unincorporated railroad community in the northwest United States, on the Great Northern Railway in northeastern King County, Washington.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Wellington, Washington avalanche sweeps away two Great Northern Railway (U.S.) passenger trains in the Cascade Mountains, killing 96”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “グレート・ノーザン鉄道ウェリントン雪崩事故おこる”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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