100 years after deadly avalanche, abandoned Washington town still haunts trail

This railroad town wasn't much to begin with and now no longer exists. Too many ghosts. All you'll find at the town site just west of Stevens Pass in Washington's Cascade Range are a parking lot, a restroom and some odd concrete ruins, including a tunnel's slowly eroding mouth and the tall pillars of an abandoned snowshed curving off into the distance. But especially on a grey, wet day, Wellington still has an unsettling story to tell. "Whenever I'm hiking through that old concrete snowshed I always think about what happened there in 1910," says Tom Davis, a trails co-ordinator for the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. "Just to me, it's little spooky." A short walk inside the shed cut into the steep hillside, there's a sheltered place to reflect on a mostly forgotten but terrible March night a century ago, when a massive wall of snow swept two Great Northern passenger trains into the Tye River, killing 96 people - the deadliest avalanche in the nation's history...