In a message dated 09/29/2006 11:33:40 AM Central Daylight Time,
Group44TR7@aol.com writes:
> In 1871, a very horrific fire occurred in northern Wisconsin
> (Peshtigo)http://www.peshtigofire.info/ . with very serious loss of life. At
> the time,
> the nearby port of Marinette, Wisconsin was reputedly the largest lumber
> port
> in the US. All that changed in almost overnight.
>
And of course, this was the same night Mrs. O'Leary's cow was to have kicked
over the oil lamp and started the infamous Chicago Fire. The Chicago fire is
much more famous, but the Peshtigo fire was the bigger of the two. It was so
serious that people who jumped into the river to avoid the flames, perished
anyway because the heat was so intense it they could not breathe. The fire
burned the oxygen out of the air. They did not burn, but could not breathe.
Bill Dentinger
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