On This Day | The Burning Burlington Hills

Burlington people are being harassed by a vein of coal on fire in the hillside on the south side of the town. South of that place there is another burning vein of lignite that has been afire for years and which melts snow that falls on the ground above it. The southernmost fire caused a prairie fire which started the timbers burning in the unused mine at the edge of town, and that started the lignite burning, and that started smell and smoke, and that started Burlington people complaining to the state government, which owns the land as part of the Burlington project.

1949-12-08 | Ward County Independent