This Day in Minnesota History

August 20, 1892

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On St. Paul's East Side, a five-story building collapses into Swede Hollow. The structure, home to twelve stores and twenty-five families, had been built on a landfill. Luckily, the tenants manage to evacuate the building before its slide into the hollow.

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