Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Nov. 13, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 73 degrees (1989)

Low temperature: 6 degrees (1986)

Precipitation: 1.09 inches (1951)

Snowfall: 2 inches (1974)

1909: The third-deadliest coal mine disaster in United States history — the Cherry Mine Fire in Cherry, Illinois, a town of 500 about 90 miles southwest of Chicago — killed 259 men and boys . According to the University of Illinois, the fire started when a cart carrying hay (to feed mules, which pulled coal carts) ignited and spread to the mine’s wood infrastructure.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Disasters!!!!! Crashes,

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