The Great Fire Of 1910 started on October 4, 1910 in Williams, Minnesota and spread quickly throughout many Townships. On October 7, 1910 the fire reached Baudette, Minnesota. At this time the railroad and Rainy River citizens used railway . . . — — Map (db m254935) HM
Northern Minnesota forests were tinder dry during the fall of 1910. Marshes and streams shriveled. Small fires smoldered here and there in the peat bogs and underbrush.
On October 4 a forest fire consumed the communities of Williams, Cedar . . . — — Map (db m207136) HM