I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910

Title: I Survived the Wellington Avalanche, 1910

Series: 29
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Narrators: Kimberly M. Wetherell
Publisher: Scholastic
Release Date: 11/06/22
Runtime: 02:07:03
Genre: See Full Description
Language: English
Grade Level: 3rd Grade,4th Grade,5th Grade,6th Grade
Fiction

Description : The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depotin the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved thestorm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm.But the storm didnt stop. One day passed, then two, three . . . six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after midnight onMarch 1, a lightning storm struck the mountain, sending a ten-foot-high wave of snow barreling down the mountain. The trainstumbled 150 feet. 96 people were dead.The Wellington avalanche forever changed railroad engineering. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the taleof one girl who survived, emerging from the snow forever changed herself.