Slash in a Minnesota forest, ca. 1905. Slash is the debris that remains in an area after it has been logged. Forms part of C. C. Andrews photograph collection (I.99).

A pocket watch taken from the hand of a victim of the Great Hinckley Fire of 1894. The watch has a silver alloy case and a white porcelain face. Manufactured in 1884 by the Elgin National Watch Company of Elgin, Illinois.

Map on page 96 shows the towns and area in Minnesota that were burned in the Hinckley fire. From Grace Stageberg Swenson’s From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894 (St. Cloud: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., 1994), 96.

People gather at Skunk Lake after the Hinckley Fire, which occurred on September 1, 1894. Photograph Collection, Hinckley Fire Museum, Hinckley.

The Hinckley fire house, firemen, and Waterous steam fire engine, before September 1, 1894. The steam fire engine was manufactured in South St. Paul.

The Brennan Lumber Company in Hinckley, Minnesota, before September 1, 1894.

High bridge over the Kettle River near Sandstone, before September 1, 1894, and after the trees in the area were cut down by a logging company, which left highly flammable debris (slash) to serve as fire fuel. Photograph Collection, Sandstone History and Art Center, Sandstone.

High bridge over the Kettle River near Sandstone before September 1, 1894, and before the trees in the area were cut down by a logging company, which left highly flammable debris (slash) to serve as fire fuel. Photograph Collection, Hinckley Fire Museum, Hinckley.

Oxen pulling a sled of white pine logs near Hinckley in Pine County, 1885.