Comments on: The Forgotten Fire https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/ Fascinating true stories from science, history, and psychology since 2005 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:16:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Anonymousx2 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/#comment-73535 Fri, 09 Oct 2020 01:16:44 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=889#comment-73535 Highly appropriate day to bring back this article. Thanks to DI, this day and Peshtigo will not be forgotten.

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]]> By: boobear13 https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/#comment-71928 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 02:54:55 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=889#comment-71928 this does not go with your story but my great great grandma was there and she was with a family they put her in a well and after the fire was gone she was still alive

]]> By: tractorman https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/#comment-71746 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:25:45 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=889#comment-71746 Read “Firestorm at Peshtigo” and a lot of questions will be answered pay attention to the name William Butler Ogden in that book.

]]> By: Alan Bellows https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/#comment-40100 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 16:22:23 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=889#comment-40100

What was failed to mention in this story (inexplicably) was that Peshtigo was a lumber town.

It is mentioned in the very first sentence (emphasis mine):

On October 8th, 1871, the small Wisconsin logging town of Peshtigo was consumed by one of the most severe and woefully under-reported fires in human history.

]]> By: Cougarland https://www.damninteresting.com/the-forgotten-fire/#comment-40099 Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:12:57 +0000 https://www.damninteresting.com/?p=889#comment-40099 There were fires throughout the USA that summer so it doesn’t matter what started the fire. What was failed to mention in this story (inexplicably) was that Peshtigo was a lumber town. They stupidly had stripped the forests of the trees while leaving all the branches, which created one gigantic burning pile where the forests once were. They had so much saw dust in the town from milling that they lined their streets and sidewalks with it over the dirt, used it as mulch in gardens, and even filled their bed mattresses with it. The land along lake Michigan on both sides from the bay of Green Bay on upwards burned that night. The telegraph lines had been damaged by fire days or weeks before so no one else knew what happened in Peshtigo because they were all fixated on Chicago’s fire.

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