10 Years Ago ·
July 10, 2000
• A fire of undetermined cause burned a section of the Lutsen Sea Villas to the ground on the afternoon of July 1. According to a spokesman of Lutsen Resort, the fire leveled four units in the B section of the villas.
Fortunately, no one was hurt in the blaze. One of the units was occupied, but the people housed there were able to get everything out of the building before the firegot out of control. Thefirst call went out at 4:19 p.m. and by the time the fire department arrived on the scene, the fire was already out of control. • Nine people traveling in a van were injured July 4 when the vehicle went off the roadway and into some trees.
According to the Cook County sheriff, the accident involved a Springfield, Minn., man, 25, who was driving south on the Gunflint Trail when he took his eyes and hands off the steering wheel to write something down. He told a juvenile male, 16, to take the wheel. The juvenile then lost control of the van, causing it to veer off the road. All nine people in the van were taken by ambulance to the Cook County North Shore Hospital and treated for various bumps, bruises and cuts, and some broken bones. However, none of the injuries was serious enough to warrant a hospital stay.
20 Years Ago ·
July 9, 1990
• One state Highway Patrol squad car was demolished and another incurred about $1,000 in damages when the vehicles collided with a moose along Highway 61 near Paradise Beach west of Hovland.
The trooper was traveling west at about 10:30 p.m. July 1 when he struck the moose, which came through his windshield. The second officer, traveling behind, swerved to miss the first car and struck the moose on the shoulder of the road.
The driver of the first car received a broken nose and facial lacerations; the second officer was not injured. • A Gunflint Trail woman, 40, died from injuries suffered in an accident July 3.
The sheriff said the victim was bicycling south on the Gunflint Trail near Magnetic Rock. A southbound vehicle passed the woman, but the bicyclist then turned out in front of a following vehicle. Although the driver of the second vehicle swerved, the woman hit his boat and trailer. She was conscious at the scene and for a part of the ambulance ride, but died at the North Shore Hospital.
No charges have been filed.
50 Years Ago ·
July 7, 1960
• Strategic Air Command B-47 and B-52 jet bombers will begin flying low-level missions over Grand Marais within the next few weeks.
The mammoth jet bombers will fly both day and night missions in all types of weather. The low-level flying will increase SAC’s combat crew proficiency, enabling the crews to perform any bombing tactic in any type of weather, day or night.
Grand Marais is along an air route recently approved by the Federal Aviation Agency for use by SAC in its lowlevel training. Both the six-jet B-47s and eight-jet B-52s will fly at altitudes of 1,000 feet above highest point along their routes. • Thevillage solved the problem of a boat launching area. Launching speed boats and other craft at the harbor defied efforts previously because of the gravel beach. The problem was licked when they purchased some government surplus landing strip metal netting that was located in Wisconsin.
It works very well.
Speedboat ownership has increased the past few years to the point where it is necessary to have easy access to the harbor. • We used to be worried about fireworks on the Fourth; now it’s cars.
90 Years Ago ·
July 7, 1920
• Thelocal hotels have been overcrowded several times the past few weeks and over 50 people were turned away Sunday night, However, many private families have rooms to spare and are anxious to rent them to tourists, so there is no need of any party failing to find proper accommodations. • Thepeople of the county are shocked and grieved to learn of the death of one of its newly-made citizens, Louis Johnson.
Louis was working for Olson Brothers on the Gunflint road and was driving a team on a wheel scraper last Friday, when the scraper turned over, the handle hitting him in the stomach. He was brought to Grand Marais at once and everything possible was done for him, but being in a very bad condition he was taken on the Hazel to the hospital at Two Harbors, where he lingered until Monday evening, when he passed away. • Little Melvin Smith had a very narrow escape Monday. He was crossing the street when a car struck him and the front wheel ran over his foot. The child was bruised somewhat but is now running around again.
Mrs. Smith was thrown down in her effort to save the
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