Sunday, June 8, 2014

On this date in Minnesota History: June 8

June 8, 1895 – “A fire, which was undoubtedly of an incendiary origin, started in the Cloquet Lumber company’s lower mill yard at 4:20 this morning. Fifteen million feet of choice lumber was destroyed. The loss is $150,000. It is fully insured. Nearly all of the lumber in this yard was last season’s cut, and was bone dry.”

St. Paul Sunday Globe; St. Paul, Minn.; June 9, 1895; p. 1.



Photos taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain June 8, 2014,
 as long as acknowledgement included.
 

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