Around 1896 , Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs had grown prominent in the Pacific Northwest , and addressed miners in Burke in early 1897 . Two years later , hostilities erupted once again in 1899 . In response to the Bunker Hill company firing seventeen men for joining the union , the miners dynamited the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mill . Lives were lost once again , and the army intervened . While the Hecla mine continued to prosper , the city saw further destruction in February 1910 when another avalanche struck the town , killing twenty residents . Six months later , the Great Fire of 1910 caused further damage to the Burke Canyon
Great Fire of 1910
Great Fire of 1910
Burke, Idaho