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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Mar 22, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 12.

Wellington Snowslide Death Toll

By Editor

The latest news from the terrible snowslide on the Great Northern at Wellington places the death roll at 115, and this may go still higher. The trains were swept 300 feet down the mountainside by the avalanche. Many of the dead will never be found, in all probability. The last two weeks have been weeks of fearful storms and wash-outs on nearly all the transcontinental railways. The Southern Pacific at the present writing are sending their Ogden trains by the short line to Portland and thence down the coast, and trains that had been sent as far as Nevada have been turned back to go east by the way of Portland.