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This Day in Minnesota History

January 30, 1992

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ISBN: 0873514165
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A train derailment in Superior, Wisconsin, sends a tanker car of benzene into the Nemadji River. The resulting cloud of possibly toxic smoke leads to the evacuation of 50,000 residents of Superior and Duluth.

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