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Mille Lacs County Minnesota |
Floods, Fires, Train Wrecks
and other Calamities
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Mille Lacs County Minnesota |
Fire at George Mahoney's House
The Princeton Union (Princeton, MN) Friday, June 29, 1877; submitted by Jim Dezotell
At a little past 6 p.m. on Wednesday evening, loud cries of fire were heard proceeding from the direction of Mr. George Mahoney's house; in a few moments a general rush of citizens with water pails in their hands was made for the spot. It seems Mrs. Jones sent her little three year old boy up stairs to get his shoes, the little fellow got hold of some matches and set fire to a lot of clothes in a closet; for a short time the smoke was quite dense, but a few buckets of water completely squelched the fire. Mrs. Jones burnt her right hand very severely in trying to put out the flames. Beyond the loss of some clothes no damage was done.
Boiler Explosion on Steamboat
The Princeton Union (Princeton, MN) Friday, June 29, 1877; submitted by Jim Dezotell
On Saturday morning, the steamboat Katie May, of Lake Minnetonka, exploded her boilers. The vessel was blown to pieces; Captain
Mitchell, C. H. Stoddard and Albert Seamen were killed, and two others wounded.
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", 3 Sep 1894 - Contributed by Rita Bergendahl]
