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	Peshtigo Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum, just west of US Highway 41, has a small collection of artifacts from the fire, first-person descriptions about the Peshtigo Fire told by the survivors, and a graveyard dedicated to victims of the tragedy.
		The combination of wind, topography, and ignition sources that created the firestorm is known as the Peshtigo Paradigm and was studied and recreated by the American and British military during World War II in their fire bombings of German and Japanese cities.
		One controversial speculation, first suggested in 1883, is that the occurrence of the Peshtigo, Chicago and Holland fires on the same day was not a coincidence, but that all three fires were caused by the impact of fragments from Comet Biela.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Peshtigo_Fire (570 words)

	Great Peshtigo Fire
		People said the Peshtigo River was the only haven from the fire, and one 13 year-old German immigrant girl said she held onto the horn of a cow all night in the river to survive.
		The Peshtigo fire, as it was dubbed, represents the greatest tragedy of its kind in North America.
		Describing the Peshtigo holocaust as a "tornado of fire" is not an exaggeration.
	www.firemaster.freehomepage.com /custom4.html (1520 words)

	Wildfire - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A wildfire, also known as a forest fire or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning; other common causes are human carelessness and arson.
		For many decades the policy of the United States Forest Service was to suppress all fires, and this policy was epitomized by the mascot Smokey the Bear and was also the basis of parts of the movie Bambi.
		However, the previous policy of absolute fire suppression in the United States had resulted in the buildup of fuel resulting in large and severe fires such as the fire in Yellowstone National Park in 1988.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /w/wi/wildfire.html (1649 words)

	Peshtigo Fire Page
		Due to the extensive population loss (estimated at 800 people just from Peshtigo village alone) and the absolute, total destruction of the village at nearly the center of the conflagration, the disaster was dubbed "The Great Peshtigo Fire".
		There had been forest fires of much smaller intensity and all had burned out with limited danger to villages, but the isolated and uncounted homesteads dotting the thick forest were quite aware of the damage.
		When the great fire came, they thought certainly this was the end of the world and would not move.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wioconto/Fire.htm (1909 words)

	Great Chicago Fire
		Before tracing the progress of the fire further northward must be mentioned the burning of the water works, and the curious or rather incomprehensible manner in which it caught fire almost two hours before the time that the fire first reached the north division across the main branch.
		Before the fire on the south side, these fathers, brothers and sons, were gradually driven across the river, until the rapidity of the progress of the flames convinced them that their own families were in danger.
		The boundaries of the fire in the north division were as follows: With the exception of the few buildings mentioned above, the fire extended over all the north division from the main branch to Division street, and from the north branch to the lake; very nearly 700 acres of territory.
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	The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871
		On the evening of October 8, 1871 the worst recorded forest fire in North American history raged through Northeastern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, destroying millions of dollars worth of property and timberland, and taking between 1,200 and 2,400 lives.
		In recent years America's "forgotten fire" has proven to be anything but.
		The tragedy is a subject of inquiry and debate among meteorologists, astronomers and conservationists.
	www.peshtigofire.info (124 words)

	ipedia.com: Great Chicago Fire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		When the fire was extinguished two days later, the smoldering remains were too hot for a survey of the damage to be completed for a couple of days.
		After the fire 125 bodies were recovered, final estimates of fatalities were in the 200-300 person range, low for such a large fire, for many had been able to escape ahead of the flames.
		The fire was said to be so fierce by local papers that it surpassed the damage done by Napoleon's siege of Moscow in 1812.
	www.ipedia.com /great_chicago_fire.html (627 words)

	John Beebee and the Great Peshtigo Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Both fires happened the same day but in terms of loss of life, the latter is undoubtedly the most significant.
		Peshtigo is said to have been a boom town in 1871.
		At Peshtigo village, over one hundred were either burned to death or drowned in the river in the effort to escape the flames.
	members.accesstoledo.com /alanhenry/bbstory/peshtigo.htm (467 words)

	MPR: Peshtigo: a tornado of fire revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the week before the fire, the air was so filled with smoke that harbormasters on Lake Michigan blew their foghorns constantly to keep ships from running aground.
		Fires were burning all over, from Chicago north to Michigan, and as far west as Minnesota.
		The fire was coming from all directions at once, and the winds were roaring at 100 mph.
	news.mpr.org /features/200211/27_hemphills_peshtigofire (1363 words)

	WER: The Great Peshtigo Fire [Introduction]
		In northeastern Wisconsin, fires set by hunters, Indians, lumberjacks, railroad workers, and farmers burning stumps and rubble culminated in the nation's worst forest fire, in terms of lives lost.
		In the fall of 1871, like other localities to which the expanding railroads were bringing an undreamed prosperity, Peshtigo, on the river of the same name in Marinette County, was exploiting the surrounding forest lands to the fullest advantage.
		Not a great deal is known about Father Peter Pernin except that he was born in France about 1825, and served parishes in L'Erable and Clifton in Illinois from 1865 to 1869.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER2002-0.html (728 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Travel and Visitors Guide: Peshtigo remembers deadly blaze of 1871
		Peshtigo and an estimated 500 residents were destroyed in the fire.
		The fire fiend was holding high carnival having selected the towns of Peshtigo, Marinette and Menekaune as its prey.
		The fire having partly spent its fury here, cries of distress were heard down the river in the direction of the mouth.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /visitors/articles/peshtigo.html (942 words)

	No. 1524: The Great Peshtigo Fire
		Peshtigo was a young, burgeoning logging center with well over two thousand people in it.
		The death toll in Peshtigo was eight hundred, but the fire touched many other towns in the area.
		The importance of Chicago in 1871 can't be minimized - a rail center, a marketplace, a gateway to the West.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1524.htm (541 words)

	Forest fire Article, Forestfire Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A wildfire, also known as a forest fire or bushfire (in Australasia), is an uncontrolled fire in wildland often caused by lightning ; other common causes are human carelessness and arson.
		For many decades the policy of the UnitedStates Forest Service was to suppress all fires, and this policy was epitomized by the mascot Smokey the Bear and was also the basis of parts of the movie Bambi.
		However, the previous policy of absolute fire suppression in the UnitedStates had resulted in the buildup of fuel resulting in large and severe fires such as the fire in Yellowstone National Park in 1988.
	www.anoca.org /fires/acres/forest_fire.html (1603 words)

	GREAT PESHTIGO FIRE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Surviving witnesses in Peshtigo reported that the firestorm generated a tornado capable of throwing rail cars and houses into the air.
		Another historical irony--National Fire Protection Week is in October in commemoration of the economic loss of the Chicago fire.
		The combination of wind, topography and fire that created the firestorm is known as the Peshtigo Paradigm.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/GREAT+PESHTIGO+FIRE (460 words)

	Ghosts of the Fireground: Echoes of the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Calling of a Wildland Firefighter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		April 2000: On the brink of one of the most ferocious fire seasons ever recorded, and faced with the challenge of commanding an elite attack helicopter team, wildland firefighter Peter Leschak discovers Father Pernin's written account of surviving the wildfire that devastated Peshtigo.
		While it does not provide a full fledged history of the Peshtigo fire, it does touch on what I thought to be the most important aspects in relation to the authors in depth look at firefighting and those who choose to do it.
		I wasn't too interested in the historical perspective of the Peshtigo Fire, and it's a good thing because there is less emphasis on this in the book.
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	WER: The Great Peshtigo File
		At night they kindle a large fire wherever they may chance to halt, prepare their suppers, then wrapping themselves in their blankets, sleep peacefully, extended on the earth, knowing that the fire will keep at a distance any wild animals that may happen to range through the vicinity during the night.
		In this way the woods, particularly in the fall, are gleaming everywhere with fires lighted by man, and which, fed on every side by dry leaves and branches, spread more or less.
		I inferred, however, that the latter was not very great as the wind was not against me. I entered then, though at first hesitatingly, into the dense cloud of smoke left darkling behind by the flames burning fiercely forward.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER2002-1.html (1303 words)

	Encyclopedia: 1 E9 mÂ² (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Great Lakes from space The Great Lakes are a group of five large lakes on or near the United States-Canadian border.
		Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau.
		Administrative map of Romania with Gorj county highlighted Gorj is a Romanian county (Judeţ) in the Wallachia region, with the capital city at Târgu Jiu (population: 98,897).
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	The Great Fire of 1871 There is one even in the history of Door County which in the memory of the people of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Great Fire of 1871 There is one even in the history of Door County which in the memory of the people of the southern half of the
		This is the great fire of Sunday, October 8, 1871, when in the darkness of the night a great torrent of fire descended upon them like the crash of judgment day, which burnt their farms to barrenness and destroyed their homes, forests and lives of their friends and relatives.
		The people of Surgeon Bay had watched with great terror this approaching storm of fire and knew that the smoked wrapped forest country of Brussels and Garnder a terrible calamity had taken place and many must have lost their lives.
	members.cox.net /jakenny/_private/Links/great_fire_of_1871_.htm (961 words)

	WN&N: Overshadowed By a Cow: The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While most people are familiar with the Great Chicago Fire, started when a cow kicked over a carelessly placed lantern, few are aware of another fire that burned that same day on October 8, 1871.
		Following are excerpts from an eye-witness account of that fire, which has come to be known as the Great Peshtigo Fire.
		The neighing of horses, falling of chimneys, crashing of uprooted trees, roaring and whistling of the wind, crackling of fire as it ran with lightning-like rapidity from house to house -- all sounds were there save that of the human voice.
	www.firewise.org /pubs/wnn/vol11/no3/pp_06.html (900 words)

	Great Pestigo Fire
		Villagers rebuilt Peshtigo from the ashes into a new, vibrant town but the conflagration was never forgotten.
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum opened in 1963 to tell the story to generations who might forget.
		Adjacent to the museum is the Peshtigo Fire Cemetery containing the remains of several hundred unidentified persons and a monument to those who died.
	laconiafire.org /great_%20pestigo_%20fire.htm (587 words)

	peshtigo
		The city was bisected by the Peshtigo River; immense forests began at the town's edge.
		About 800 of the 2,000 people who lived in Peshtigo worked either in logging or saw milling operations or were employed at a huge woodenware factory that locals liked to boast was the best and biggest of its kind in the world.
		The Peshtigo sawmill owned by Chicago entrepreneur William B. Ogden ran 97 saws and averaged a daily cut of 150,000 feet of lumber.
	www.davidstuff.com /historical/peshtigo.htm (700 words)

	The Great Peshtigo Fire: An Eyewitness Account (Wisconsin) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Added to the original eye-witness account of Reverend Peter Pernin are new archival photographs of Peshtigo, before and after the fire, and an updated introduction that gives readers a fresh perspective on the fire that burned 2400 square miles and killed more than 700 people.
		Occurring on the same day as the famous Chicago fire, the Peshtigo fire resulted from similar causes: a prolonged drought, a concentration of wooden structures and rubble, and human carelessness.
		The fire's heat swept through the area like a hurricane and became so intense that metal melted and things that had been buried underground in hopes of being saved were destroyed from the heat.
	www.textkit.com /0_087020310X.html (377 words)

	Towns & Tales: The Great Peshtigo Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the very same night the great Chicago fire raged, the forgotten Peshtigo fire killed more people than any fire in American history.
		$155,000 was raised, as was, from its ashes, the new town of Peshtigo.
		Two fires begin on the same night, they rage out of control from the onset, no clear reason was given for either fire.
	www.hometowntales.com /peshtigofire.html (362 words)

	FIRE PREVENTION WEEK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Fire Drills: The Great Escape" is a three-year public safety campaign that helps families and employees prepare to survive a fire.
		Fire Prevention Week begins Oct. 8 and Fort Monmouth fire alarms will sound throughout the installation during the month of October.
		As soon as the published fire drill schedule was posted we began receiving e-mails and phone calls regarding assembly points, suggested plans, and fire safety questions for the home.
	www.monmouth.army.mil /monmessg/newmonmsg/oct06/m40drill.htm (427 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Arts and Entertainment: Peshtigo remembers deadly blaze of 1871
		Of course, the Chicago Fire is the best-known blaze of that day, but in Peshtigo another deadly fire on the same day will never be forgotten.
		Today, a fire museum can be found in a former Catholic church in Peshtigo.
		Perhaps the best web source is The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 at peshtigofire.info.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /ent/articles/peshtigo.html (976 words)

	Used Book Central Search / keyword(s): the great fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Along a 1,000 yard front the greatest concentration of artillery fire since the Great War was brought to bear on Chinese human-wave attacks.In the morning the Dukes still held the ground despite heavy casualties.
		Considered by some one of the great military leaders of all time, we read here the full documentary account of his last days and hours in his own words and those of his colleagues.Some 24 maps, expressly drawn for this text by Mark Pfoutz, illustrate the action for the visitor and armchair reader alike.
		From 1660 to 1669 he meticulously recorded the great events of the day-the Restoration, the Plague, the Fire of London, the naval war with the Dutch-his dealings with courtiers and commoners, his participation in affairs of state (as well as affairs of the heart), and his unending interest in the arts and sciences.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,keywords,the+great+fire,jump,200.html (3186 words)

	The Great Peshtigo Fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In fact, no forest fire since the Peshtigo disaster has taken more lives; and the Chicago fire remains the most destructive metropolitan blaze in the nation's history, having caused some $200,000,000 in property damage and all but obliterating the city's core.
		While both fires were devastating, many newspapers around the country concentrated their coverage on the Chicago catastrophe, which was, in William Haygood's words in his introduction to The Great Peshtigo Fire, "by its very nature more spectacular, more universally publicized, and more often revived in print."
		To this new edition the Society Press is pleased to add a foreword by Stephen J. Pyne, professor at Arizona State University in Tempe, author of numerous books on wildland fire, and the foremost historian of fire whom governments the world over consult for advice about environmental issues related to fire.
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /publications/books/peshtigo_fire2.asp (397 words)

	Peshtigo Plat Drawing made Sept 1871. Village destroyed by Great Peshtigo Fire on October 8, 1871
		However, before it was published, on the night of October 8th of 1871 the Great Peshtigo Fire completely destroyed the village and a majority of its inhabitants while burning its way into history as the largest natural disaster in the United States.
		The church was gone in the fire, but the surviving congregation members decided to open the cemetery to all people who needed a grave site.
		Eye witness accounts by volunteer rescue workers, after the fire, document wagons carrying human remains lined up as far as three miles, awaiting a chance to put the victims to rest.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wioconto/PeshtigoPlatDrawing.htm (564 words)

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