Willow Creek Slide

It happened on February 10, 1903, at the S Bridge, an 839-foot curving Northern Pacific trestle above Mullan. A rotary snowplow train, stalled by a breakdown, had stopped on the trestle in the night while its crew dug out by hand, leaving a pusher engine and a caboose on the open span when the slide hit. Seven men were asleep in the caboose; eight people were aboard the passenger car left hanging from its coupler. Nobody died. The Barnard studio in Wallace photographed the wreck, and its glass-plate negatives survive at the University of Idaho.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 9.3 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 15 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.

More markers nearby

• The Big Blowup — steps away
• 25th Infantry Regiment — steps away
• Land of the Schitsu'umsh (Schitsu'umshu'lmkhw) — 1.1 mi
• Schitsu'umsh — 1.1 mi