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The Chicago Fire Of 1871 - Online Term Paper

The Chicago Fire Of 1871

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 building in a
four block area before it was brought under control Sunday morning. They lost a
hose and other fire-fighting equipment, including one of seventeen steam fire
engines and a hose cart. Nearly half of Chicago's 185 firemen fought this fire
and many were on duty all day, so they were already exhausted when the Great
Chicago Fire of 1871 struck.
Some people think that the fire was ...

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company. A neighbor ran to a drug store to turn on an alarm but the
alarm failed to work. The court house watchman had given wrong directions but
later tried to correct his mistake, but the alarm operator was eating dinner
so she refused to correct the mistake. The fire engines went about 1 mile
south of where the fire was. By the time the problem was resolved ,a number of
hose carts and fire engines were fighting to keep this fire under control, but
the wind had spread bits of buring 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 ...

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Added: 7/11/2005 12:48:59 AM
Category: American History
Type: Free Paper
Words: 545
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