Photos: Aftermath of the 1918 Cloquet-Moose Lake wildfire
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The remains of a neighborhood of burned-out homes -- reduced to debris-filled basements -- are seen after a wildfire swept through Cloquet, Minn., on Oct. 12, 1918. This view is looking north toward the Masonic Temple and Washington School. The Cloquet-Moose Lake fire devastated those two communities among others in northeastern Minnesota, including parts of Duluth, leaving hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless.
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Massive wildfires that swept across northeastern Minnesota in October 1918 destroyed Cloquet, Moose Lake and several other communities, leaving hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless.
Photographers chronicled the aftermath — ruined neighborhoods, burned-out shells of buildings, vehicles abandoned along roadsides and mass burials of the victims.
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