Historic Disasters in Southeast Minnesota

by Steve Gardiner

Book Overview

Southeast Minnesota has regularly felt the wrath of nature.

In 1890, a driving straight-line wind on Lake Pepin overturned the Sea Wing, killing ninety-eight people within minutes in the worst marine tragedy in Minnesota history. In 1940, a raging blizzard trapped duck hunters on islands in the Mississippi River and left motorists stranded across the region, leaving dozens injured or dead. Then, in 1965, flood waters of the Mississippi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467150940
• ISBN13: 9781467150941
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"