On this day, March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in United States history buried a train in Washington state.

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3. Six years later, another avalanche swept over a Great Northern train, seven miles to the west of the 1910 avalanche.

Avalanche hits a Great Northern Railway train near Corea, killing eight passengers on January 22, 1916.
By Daryl C. McClary Posted 1/20/2014 HistoryLink.org Essay 10713

On January 22, 1916, eight passengers are killed when an avalanche sweeps down Windy Mountain in the Cascades and strikes a westbound Great Northern passenger train, shoving two rail cars over an 80-foot embankment. The disaster occurs near Corea station, seven rail miles west of Tye (formally Wellington), the west portal of the Cascade Tunnel, which in 1910 had been the scene of one of the worst railroad disasters in United States history.

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