Individual Event Report
| Event #240 - Summary, and parameter estimates with source IDs |
| In early December of 1891a landslide blocked railroad tracks between Seattle and Everett in the vicinity of Woodway. The first report of blocking was Dec 6. Richmond, where the slide was reported, is near Woodway, site of a large landslide from a bluff that derailed five cars of a freight train in January of 1997. |
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| N-WA - 7038 |
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N-WA - 7037 |
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Underlying Source Material
| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 7037 |
Anarcortes Progress |
1891 |
Dec. 11, 1891, Fri., p. 1, c. 5 |
Transcription: THE LANDSLIDE
The Great Northern Train Delayed Near Richmond.
The Post-Intelligencer says: The Seattle & Montana train, which left South Westminster at 10:45 o’clock on Monday morning and was due in Seattle at 6:10 o’clock that night is still at the north side of the big landslide between Richmond beach and Meadow Point. The passengers, fifty sixty to (sic) in number, had to spend the night on the cards, where Superintendent Neff made every possible provision for their comfort. When it became evident that the train could not get through, some passengers came in by steamer from some neighboring port, while others made their way across the country to the Lake Shore & Eastern road and took trains.
Superintendent Neff, who was on blockaded train, immediately set to work to clear away the slide. Fifty men were sent up from this city on Monday, and worked all that day, all Monday night and Tuesday, shovelling the great mass of dir off the track. A work train ran up and down the road on the south side of the slide, and made two trips to the city Tuesday, for reinforcements, each time gathering up all the men who could be found and hurrying them to the spot. The work of shovelling seemed interminable, for as fast as the dirt was removed more fell in its place. On the washout, three miles further north, work was pushed with equal vigor, and it was expected that the last train load of rock, which went up Tuesday night, would put the ???? [illegible word, RSL] in such condition that the train could pass over it, so as to reach the city about 8 o’clock Wednesday morning.
Until the track is put in a condition for traffic again, the old arrangement, by which trains from the Fairhaven & Southern run to Sedro and connected with the Lake Shore Trains, has been resumed. No trains went north on the road Tuesday. |
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| Source ID |
Publication |
Pub Date |
Pub Details |
| 7038 |
The Everett News |
1891 |
Dec. 18, 1891, Fri., p. 1, c. 4 |
Transcription: MORE LAND SLIDES
Seattle & Montana Traffic Seriously Interfered With
The Seattle & Montana road is still having trouble with land slides. The train which left Seattle Sunday morning at 9 o’clock didn’t reach Everett until 1 o’clock Sunday night, having encountered three heavy slides, one being 100 feet in length and 8 feet deep.
Again on Monday several small slides delayed trains for a short while. For a day or two past traffic has been unimpeded.
The character of the road renders it peculiarly liable tot his accident, running as it does the greater part of its length along the Sound, with steep banks on one side. The heavy rains of the past few days have aggrivated (sic) the trouble, of course. The road had made every effort to keep the track clear so that passengers would not be inconvenienced, and has succeeded to a gratifying extent. It is thought that the worst of the difficulty is over, and that the road can now be operated with but little difficulty and no interruption. |
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