People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — CAUGHT IN AN AVALANCHE. [ARTICLE]

CAUGHT IN AN AVALANCHE.

Disastrous Result of a Snowslide on Great Northern Railway. Seattle, Wash., March 21. —A report has been received that the Great Northern freight train which left Snohomish Saturday night was struck by a snowslide near Skokomish and swept over an 150-foot embankment. Six men perished with it. The train is said to have gone entirely out of sight under the slide in the valley. The Local officers of the road claim to know nothing of it, and they express doubt as to the truth of the report The west-bound passenger train was delayed by a snowslide and bowlders on the track near Wellingtou. The bowlders were so large that they had to be blasted away. All attempts to get information by wire from near the scene of the wreck have failed.