The Great Fire of 1910, a wildfire that consumed about 3 million acres in Washington, Idaho and Montana -- an area about the size of Connecticut -- claimed the lives of 78 firefighters over two days.
Striking miners at Tracy City, Tenn., capture their mines and free 300 state convict strikebreakers. The convicts had been "leased" to mine-owners by officials in an effort to make prisons self-supporting and make a few bucks for the state. The practice started in 1866 and lasted for 30 years - 1892