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Hinckley Homepage

Hinckley Project Overview

The Railroad Era in Hinckely

Modern Hinckley Aerial Photo

Northern Pacific Depot

Modern Union Pacific Freight Train

The Great Fire

The Brennan Lumber Mill

The Area Burned by the Firestorm

Estimates of the Destruction

Northern Pacific Depot

Modern Hinckley Aerial Photo

The New York Times on the Fire

NYT September 3, 1894 Hundreds Perish in Forest Fires

NYT September 3, 1894 Race for Life with Flames

NYT September 3, 1894 A Passenger Train Missing

NYT September 4, 1894 The Dead Lie in Heaps at Hinckley

NYT September 4, 1894 Some of the Dead

NYT September 4, 1894 From Three to Five Millions

NYT September 5, 1894 Still the Calamity Grows

NYT September 5, 1894 By Towns and by Counties

NYT September 5, 1894 Tales Told by Refugees

NYT September 5, 1894 Scene of Utter Destruction

NYT September 6, 1894 Wisconsin Still Burning

NYT September 7, 1894 More Victims at Hinckley

NYT September 8, 1894 Indians Among the Victims

Auto Era Land Use

Hinckley's Future

Project Conclusion

Project Sources

 

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