On This Date in Minnesota History: December 10

December 10, 1909 – In St. Paul, the explosion of a quantity of dynamite in a freight car at the Minnesota Transfer yards that resulted “in the death of one man, the fatal injury of another and serious injury to a third, caused considerable excitement because of a report that striking switchmen were involved. It was [determined], however, that the explosion was purely accidental, as the dynamite was being [moved] from one car to another when it exploded. The dead and injured were all freight handlers.”

Duluth News-Tribune; “Explosion at Transfer Yards St. Paul Freight Handler Killed, Another Dying and Third Seriously Injured”; December 11, 1909; p.1.

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