The Great Hinckley Fire: The Town That Couldn't Outrun the Flames

Podcast: Yore Town · Beard Laws Studio, Bleav

Opublikowano: 2026-08-31

On September 1, 1894, Hinckley, Minnesota was a booming lumber town surrounded by forests dried by months of drought and littered with highly combustible logging debris. By the next morning, much of the town was gone. In this episode of Yore Town, Matt and Megh revisit the Great Hinckley Fire and the terrifying hours when an ordinary Saturday became a fight for survival. As the firestorm closed in, residents had almost no warning and no reliable way of knowing which direction offered safety. Some climbed into wells and root cellars. Others fled toward rivers, swamps...