Francis Carroll talks about the Cloquet Fires

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November 16, 1990
Mark Heistad - Reporter, Francis Carroll - Interviewee
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A Morning Edition interview with Francis Carroll, co-author of The Fires of Autumn: The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster of 1918. The history book is based upon the Cloquet Moose Lake Fire.

The Cloquet-Moose Lake Disaster was Minnesota's deadliest natural disaster, killing over 450 people and destroying 38 communities across 1,500 square miles.

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