Saturday, July 22, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 22

July 22, 1902 – A crowd of 50 men stood idly by this morning and listened helplessly to the cries of little Max Beach, the 4-year-old son of Leslie G. Beach, as he was burning to death in the attic of his Minneapolis home. Not a man made an effort to save him. An aunt of the child attempted to go into the attic, but was driven back by the flames. The child at this time was in the front of the building near a window within easy access from the roof of the porch.

 
Max Beach

The child went into the attic to play at 6:30 this morning and shortly afterward his grandmother heard him crying. At the same time the neighbors saw smoke issuing from the roof. An alarm was turned in, but before the department reached the scene, the flames had reached the child ad his cries had ceased. The body was rescued later but it was burned beyond recognition.

The child’s mother died nearly four years ago and he has been living with his grandparents. His father, who is a bicycle repairer, is at present in the woods near Duluth and cannot be reached by telegraph.

Coroner Williams was notified and investigated the matter. He decided that death was purely accidental. The remains were taken to the morgue and will be shipped to Nashua, Iowa, for interment.

The Minneapolis Journal; “A Boy Burns; Crowd Gapes. Not a Man Tried to Rescue Little Max Beach. Prisoned in a Burning Attic He Meets Agonizing Death.”; July 22, 1902; p. 1.
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Friday, July 21, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 21

July 21, 2012 – Mike Lynn, Vikings General Manager and the mastermind behind what many consider the worse sports trade in history, died on this date.

“Lynn is perhaps best [remembered in Minnesota] for sending five players and seven draft choices -- including three first-round picks -- to the Cowboys for running back Herschel Walker on Oct. 12, 1989. The Cowboys went on to win three Super Bowls, while Walker recorded 2,264 rushing yards and 20 touchdowns for the Vikings in 42 games.”

http://www.twincities.com/vikings/ci_21128880/former-minnesota-vikings-gm-mike-lynn-dies



Mike Lynn
http://archive.southreporter.com/2012/wk30/mike_lynn.html

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Thursday, July 20, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 20

July 20, 1934 — “On this day in the long, bloody, history-changing Minneapolis Teamsters strike, police open fire on unarmed strikers, killing two and injuring 50. Many of those injured were shot in the back as they tried to flee the scene.”

http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2008/07/150-minnesota-moments-wed-just-soon-forget




http://placeholdermedia.com/projects/59revolutions/imageinfo.php

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Wednesday, July 19, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 19

*July 19, 1902 – Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company officially announced today that is has purchased the lease held by the Itasca Mining Company on 160 acres of land adjoining the Hawkins mine on the western Mesaba Range about a quarter mile northwest of the new town of Nashwauk. The consideration was $500,000 cash and seven cents per ton for all ore now shown up (about 5,000,000 tons) and all that is yet to be found. The lease provides for the payments to the fee-holders of a royalty of 20 cents per ton on all ore mined, which makes the total consideration considerably over $3,000,000, it being estimated that the tract contains fully 10,000,000 tons of ore.

The Minneapolis Tribune; “Big Mesaba Mine Deal. Cleveland Cliff’s Iron Company Buys Itasca’s Lease—Total Consideration Three Million Dollars.”; July 20, 1902; p. 4.

http://www.grandrapidsmn.com/news/historical-review/article_1a03c4ea-afa5-5712-a48f-5a5cf422eda9.html




http://epicroadtrips.us/2012/mn/d_16_17_18_19/photo0000035.jpg

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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 18

July 18, 1977 – A patent for frozen pizza dough was filed by Rose Totino. Rose and her husband Jim had been working on a frozen version of their popular pizza, honed in their northeast Minneapolis restaurant, since the early 1960s.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=3QQ1AAAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Rose+Totino&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3NFvT5zqBMPm0QHZ6fjPBg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA




Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released into the public domain 10-9-2012,
as long as acknowledgement included.
 

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Monday, July 17, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 17

July 17, 1912 – While Louis Borgen, chief of the Moorhead fire department, was confined to his bed seriously ill, two girls, students at the Moorhead State Normal School, extinguished a blaze on the first floor of the Borgen residence this evening and probably saved the chief’s life.

Dora Fercig and Nellie Webster of Cloquet, Minn., were attending the summer session at the normal school, and boarding at the Borgen home. They were studying in the library of the Borgen residence shortly after 8 p.m. when they saw smoke issuing from the doorway of an adjoining room.

The girls decided that phoning the fire department or the neighbors would only give the fire time to grow, so they opened the door and fought the flames and dense smoke with pails of water. The noise awakened Chief Borgen and the excitement gave him strength to walk to the head of the stairs, from where he directed the girl firefighters. In 15 minutes the fire was out and the department had not been called.

Little damage, except from smoke, resulted.

The Minneapolis Morning Tribune; “Girls Rescue Fire Chief. Awaken Moorhead Official, Sick in Bed, When House is Ablaze.”; July 18, 1912; p. 1.


http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/minnesota/mid-size-cities-mn/

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Sunday, July 16, 2017

On This Date in Minnesota History: July 16

July 16, 1901 – The Duluth police are taking extra precautions against runaway horse teams. The flies have become so troublesome that horses left standing along the street are usually restless and the “weights” used for hitching purposes don’t seem to stop them from running away.

This morning around 10 there was a runaway on Lake Ave. that resulted in fatal injuries to a valuable dray horse belonging to the Duluth Iron and Metal Company. The team was going south with a load of iron rails. The flies were bothering one of the horses and in fighting his tormentors, the neck yoke broke and the heavy load of iron bumped against the team. The driver lost control of them and they ran about a block when the rig smashed into an obstruction. The rails slid forward jabbing ugly holes into the side of one of the horses and the wagon crushed its leg up against the high curbing, breaking it. The police had to shoot the animal to put it out of her misery.

Yesterday afternoon there was a string of runaways caused by flies tormenting the horses. A team standing near Second Ave. E. on Superior Street, started off on a run and the wagon bumping over the torn up street car track started another team. The second team bumped into a third and started that, and for a while with three teams running away in one block and the street torn up, it looked as if there might be more or less serious results. Prompt action on the part of a policeman and the drivers stopped all three runaways in short order.

Duluth Evening Herald; “Runaways. Flies Are Causing Tem and Precautions Are Necessary.”; July 16, 1901; p. 2.




http://www.horsehealthproducts.com/Horsemans_Report/Entry/fight_flies

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