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The Chicago Fire Of 1871

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The summer of 1871 had been an unusually dry one in Chicago. Between July and October, only 5 inches of rain fell. In addition to twenty-seven fires in the first week of October, on Saturday night, October 7, a blaze broke out in a planning mill on the West Side and destroyed almost every buildi ....

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....ing debris. Several homes, one block north, had caught on fire. The flames were so intense that one fireman's hat was warped and his clothing was smoking. The fire spread swiftly through Chicago. Frantic householders and businessmen whose building were in the probable path of the fire, piled all their possessions in to the street. Both the west and south side were cover in a blanket of smoke. As Thomas Byrne of Hose Elevator No.2 said,"you couldn't see anything over you but fire....No clo....
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