Mille Lacs County

Newspaper Articles

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TERRIBLE FIRES.
Mille Lacs, Pine and Chisago Counties, Minn., Ravaged by Forest Fires.
Three Hundred People Dead and Millions of Dollars in Property Destroyed.
St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 3. – Three hundred people are dead, five towns burned and two million dollars worth of property destroyed in Pine, Mille Lacs and Chisago counties, Minnesota, as the result of fearful forest fires which swept the country between noon and midnight Saturday.
The towns destroyed are Hinckley, Sandstone, Mission Creek, Willow River and Partridge, all on the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, seventy miles north of St. Paul.
At Hinckley two hundred and fifty dead persons have been discovered, and at the other places from fifty to eighty. Relief trains have gone from St. Paul and also Duluth.
Barronette, Wisconsin, on the Omaha road, was all burned but one house, and seven hundred people are homeless there, besides one man lost. Shell Lake, Wisconsin, on the same road, lost sixty buildings.
[Aberdeen Daily News, 1894-09-03 - Contributed by Rita Bergendahl]

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