This includes the eyewitness account of the Catholic pastor Father Perrin- whose account served as the basis for the handful of articles and books that followed. It was Chicago that received all the headlines- yet the Peshtigo fire still stands and America s deadliest fire ever. O'Leary's barn in Chicago, starting a conflagration that destroyed most of that city. On that same day, far away from Peshitgo, a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. The little town of Peshtigo suffered the most fatalities. Twelve communities were literally wiped out. Somewhere between 1500 and 3,000 people were killed, and the damage to farms, homes, and livestock was beyond measure. The story: On October 8, 1871, an area of Northeastern Wisconsin half again the size of New Hampshire was utterly destroyed by a cyclonic wildfire which was being driven by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour. I relied totally upon visual research and not audio. First- my apologies to Wisconsinites for my pronunciation of Peshtigo, which should see an accent on "Pesh"., not "Ti" as I have done.
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