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The Great Mill Disaster, also known as the Washburn A Mill explosion, occurred on May 2, 1878, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.The disaster resulted in 18 deaths. The explosion occurred on a Thursday evening when an accumulation of flour dust inside the Washburn A Mill, the largest mill in the world at the time, led to a dust explosion that killed the fourteen workers inside the mil
The Great Hinckley Fire was a conflagration in the pine forests of the U.S. state of Minnesota in September 1894, which burned an area of at least 200,000 acres (810 km 2; 310 sq mi) [1] (perhaps more than 250,000 acres [1,000 km 2; 390 sq mi]), including the town of Hinckley.
The ensuing fire resulted in the deaths of four more people, destroyed five other mills, and reduced Minneapolis's milling capacity by one third. Known as the Great Mill Disaster, the explosion made national news and served as a focal point that led to reforms in the milling industry. In order to prevent the buildup of combustible flour dust ...
1894 – Great Fire in Hudson, Massachusetts caused by Independence Day celebrations destroyed a large area of the downtown and cost $500,000. 1894 – A fire starting in a barber shop engulfed the town of Gifford, Illinois. 1894 – Great Fire in Shanghai destroyed over 1,000 buildings.
The deadliest wildfire event in U.S. history occurred in August 2023 on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The blaze devastated the historic town of Lahaina, where at least 102 people were killed and ...
A streetcar system in the Minneapolis area took shape in 1875, when the Minneapolis Street Railway company began service with horse-drawn cars. Under the leadership of Thomas Lowry , the company merged with the St. Paul Railway Company and took the name Twin City Rapid Transit .
Federal law enforcement officials have called in help from a national response team to probe a large fire that engulfed a vacant Minneapolis apartment complex on Dec. 3. William McCrary, special ...
Minneapolis firefighters responded a little before 1 p.m. to reports of a fire in a two-story house at 4804 12th Av. S. They found heavy smoke coming from the first floor and chimney, fire ...