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The fire started about 2 p.m. after a vehicle that a Winona Aggregate employee was working on in the storage shed ignited. The fire spread throughout the storage shed and then to a nearby barn where Winona Aggregate stores its equipment.
The fire destroyed a diesel compressor, generators, conveyor belt and machine parts.
The shed and barn, owned by Archie Halvorson, Goodview, were destroyed.
Dave Zimmerman, a Minnesota City firefighter, was treated and released at Community Memorial Hospital for heat exhaustion.
Gusting winds fueled the fire. By 3:30 p.m. the firefighters had the blaze contained to the barn and crib.
Winona Aggregate is located on Minnesota City Road, Goodview.
1958
A General Mills high-altitude weather balloon caused the electrical service outage to four Wisconsin communities Thursday morning, the Mississippi Valley Public Service Co. reported.
The balloon, 46 feet in diameter, came down on a transmission line on a farm south of Galesville. It shorted out the circuit and then burned out, so that when switches were closed again 12 minutes later, service was restored.
While MVPS crews were searching for the source of the trouble, General Mills called. Its balloon tracing crew had reported the incident.
1933
CALEDONIA, Minn. — Breaking open the safe by chiseling off the combination, robbers escaped with loot estimated at $1,000 in cash and stamps from the Caledonia post office this morning.
The robbery was discovered about 3:45 o’clock by James F. McGinnis, Caledonia night watchman and marshal, as he was completing his final round for the night in the business section before going off duty.
John Streich, former postal inspector for this district, announced that the job was apparently the work of experienced robbers, after beginning an investigation a little more than an hour after it had been reported to him at his home
in Winona. He immediately drove here, arriving shortly after 5 o’clock. Mr Streich declared he believed that robbery to have been done by a gang that has looted more than a score of post offices in southern Minnesota during the past few months.
Entry was gained by breaking open a screen and prying open a window at the rear of the post office building which faces south on main Street.
The safe is located at the front of the building and can be seen plainly from the street through a large window. Observing that the conmbination was missing from the safe when he reached the post office on his last round, McGinnis roused M.O. Hill, city mail carrier who lives next door.
1908
What the people about Oak Valley over in Wisconsin consider a wild man has just been caught and placed in the county jail at Alma. The first time he was seen was during the latter part of March, but not enough was seen to find out who he was. During the days he lived in the woods and in the night prowled about the farmers’ premises and raided their chicken coops and hog houses. This was his method of getting his food. One of his resting places was an old shed, which has not been used for some time. He cooked the chickens by a fire in the woods with the aid of a milk can. Some time after he disappeared, but reappeared again a few days ago. The farmers thought that the matter had gone far enough and notified the sheriff, and the result was that the man was caught while he was sleeping.
1883
A fatal accident occurred
at Lewiston on Tuesday. A farmer was engaged in hauling manure when his team became frightened and ran away, throwing the man to the ground, and the loaded wagon either passed over his chest or was upset and thrown upon him, killing him instantly.
1863
The river is falling all the way from St. Paul to St. Louis. There is plenty of water yet between the two points for good navigation. The Minnesota is getting quite low, so much so that the large class of boats on that stream are obliged to take most of their cargoes on barges.
Contact Jerome Christenson at jchristenson@winonadaily news.com or (507) 453-3500. y Jerome Christenson | Winona Daily News
1983
Minnesota City and Goodview fire departments battled a blaze at Winona Aggregate Co. that destroyed a storage shed, barn, corn crib and equipment and sent one firefighter to the hospital.
The fire started about
2 p.m. after a vehicle that a Winona Aggregate employee was working on in the storage shed ignited. The fire spread throughout the storage shed and then to a nearby barn where Winona Aggregate stores its equipment.
The fire destroyed a diesel compressor, generators, conveyor belt and machine parts.
The shed and barn, owned by Archie Halvorson, Goodview, were destroyed.
Dave Zimmerman, a Minnesota City firefighter, was treated and released at Community Memorial Hospital for heat exhaustion.
Gusting winds fueled the fire. By 3:30 p.m. the firefighters had the blaze contained to the barn and crib.
Winona Aggregate is located on Minnesota City Road, Goodview.
1958
A General Mills high-altitude weather balloon caused the electrical service outage to four Wisconsin communities Thursday morning, the Mississippi Valley Public Service Co. reported.
The balloon, 46 feet in diameter, came down on a transmission line on a farm south of Galesville. It shorted out the circuit and then burned out, so that when switches were closed again 12 minutes later, service was restored.
While MVPS crews were searching for the source of the trouble, General Mills called. Its balloon tracing crew had reported the incident.
1933
CALEDONIA, Minn. — Breaking open the safe by chiseling off the combination, robbers escaped with loot estimated at $1,000 in cash and stamps from the Caledonia post office this morning.
The robbery was discovered about 3:45 o’clock by James F. McGinnis, Caledonia night watchman and marshal, as he was completing his final round for the night in the business section before going off duty.
John Streich, former postal inspector for this district, announced that the job was apparently the work of experienced robbers, after beginning an investigation a little more than an hour after it had been reported to him at his home
in Winona. He immediately drove here, arriving shortly after 5 o’clock. Mr Streich declared he believed that robbery to have been done by a gang that has looted more than a score of post offices in southern Minnesota during the past few months.
Entry was gained by breaking open a screen and prying open a window at the rear of the post office building which faces south on main Street.
The safe is located at the front of the building and can be seen plainly from the street through a large window. Observing that the conmbination was missing from the safe when he reached the post office on his last round, McGinnis roused M.O. Hill, city mail carrier who lives next door.
1908
What the people about Oak Valley over in Wisconsin consider a wild man has just been caught and placed in the county jail at Alma. The first time he was seen was during the latter part of March, but not enough was seen to find out who he was. During the days he lived in the woods and in the night prowled about the farmers’ premises and raided their chicken coops and hog houses. This was his method of getting his food. One of his resting places was an old shed, which has not been used for some time. He cooked the chickens by a fire in the woods with the aid of a milk can. Some time after he disappeared, but reappeared again a few days ago. The farmers thought that the matter had gone far enough and notified the sheriff, and the result was that the man was caught while he was sleeping.
1883
A fatal accident occurred
at Lewiston on Tuesday. A farmer was engaged in hauling manure when his team became frightened and ran away, throwing the man to the ground, and the loaded wagon either passed over his chest or was upset and thrown upon him, killing him instantly.
1863
The river is falling all the way from St. Paul to St. Louis. There is plenty of water yet between the two points for good navigation. The Minnesota is getting quite low, so much so that the large class of boats on that stream are obliged to take most of their cargoes on barges.
Contact Jerome Christenson at jchristenson@winonadaily news.com or (507) 453-3500.
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