Great Hinckley Fire
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The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota that ignited on September 1, 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres, including the town of
Hinckley, Minnesota after the 1894 fire
Eastern Minnesota Railway #105 (Ed Barry's Engine)
Great Northern Railway #125 (William Best's Engine)
The Hinckley Fire Museum
Cloquet Fire
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The Cloquet Fire was an immense forest fire in northern Minnesota, United States, in October 1918, caused by sparks on the local railroads amid dry conditions. The fire left much of western Carlton Co
Great Hinckley Fire
…lists. Bodies continued to be found years later. Many were buried where they were found and remain there to this day. It is second only to the 1918 Cloquet Fire (where 453 were killed) as the deadliest in Minnesota history, and the third deadliest in U.S. history, after the Peshtigo Fire. Today, a 37-mile (60…
Cloquet, Minnesota after the 1918 fire
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