Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota\'s past and explore the best of the state\'s worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers.
From a fire that destroyed the State Capitol in 1881, to a wordless fistfight that broke out on a Minneapolis street in 1898, a flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 Minneso.
These stories and photos, culled from the Star Tribune\'s microfilm archive by author Ben Welter, range from the catastrophic to the merely curious.
Turn back the yellowing pages of Minnesota\'s past and explore the best of the state\'s worst moments, as chronicled in the Minneapolis Tribune and its successor newspapers