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	WER: The Great Peshtigo Fire [Introduction]
		In Chicago, a lantern thoughtlessly placed within kicking distance of a cow in a barn on De Koven Street is reputed to have set off the most destructive metropolitan blaze in the nation's history, resulting in a property damage of $200,000,000 and virtually annihilating the city's core.
		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.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER2002-0.html (728 words)

	NWS Green Bay, WI
		The story of the Peshtigo Fire, gleaned from survivor accounts and conjecture, is that railroad workers clearing land for tracks that Sunday evening started a brush fire which, somehow, became an inferno.
		The fire produced countless stories of heroics and tragedy, which are collected at the research center, as well as the Peshtigo Fire Museum in downtown Peshtigo.
		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.
	www.crh.noaa.gov /grb/peshtigofire.php (461 words)

	ipedia.com: Peshtigo Fire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Peshtigo was a center of manufacture of wood products of all sorts in 1871, sitting as it did in the center of a large area of timbering.
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum, just west of 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.
		One controversial speculation, first suggested in 1883, is that the occurrence of the Peshtigo and Chicago fires on the same day was not a coincidence, but that both fires were caused by the impact of fragments from Comet Biela.
	www.ipedia.com /peshtigo_fire.html (648 words)

	Peshtigo Fire Page
		In 1871 Peshtigo, on the eastern shore of Wisconsin along Lake Michigan, was a rapidly expanding frontier village.
		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.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wioconto/Fire.htm (1953 words)

	MPR: Peshtigo: a tornado of fire revisited
		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.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/200211/27_hemphills_peshtigofire (1315 words)

	Peshtigo Fire Museum - An UnCommon Place in Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The entire town was destroyed with the exception one house (which was being built at the time with green pine wood) and a a few small items that are displayed in a case in the Peshtigo Fire Museum.
		Stories about this fire, burned survivors who ran to the river and many associated events are astounding and amazing and represent the fierce horror and terror of that night.
		A small book and broken dish, charred by the fire and unearthed by a construction worker in 1995, are the most recently discovered artifacts displayed in the museum.
	www.uncommondays.com /states/wi/places/peshtigofire.htm (173 words)

	The Peshtigo fire and museum
		The Peshtigo fire was lost for a time in our history due to that the Chicago fire happend on the same day.
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum is in the first church that was built after the October 8, 1871 fire.
		Next to the museum is the Peshtigo Fire Cemetary which has graves of people who lost their lives in the Peshtigo fire of 1871.
	va.essortment.com /peshtigofire_rctl.htm (893 words)

	Great Peshtigo Fire
		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.
		In Peshtigo, all that stands as a reminder to the disaster is a small memorial.
	www.boisestate.edu /history/ncasner/hy210/peshtigo.htm (1059 words)

	The Weather Doctor Almanac 2000
		Fire weather experts Donald Haines and Earl Kuehnast have suggested that the advance of a moist tongue of air advancing slowly across Wisconsin ahead of the cold front on the 8th could have been associated with a low-level jet of very dry air ahead of it.
		Peshtigo reported rainfall of 0.3 to 0.5 inches (8 to 13 mm) on the 9th.
		This fire was fed by sloppy logging practices during the lumber bonanza that denuded large parts of the Lower Peninsula in the later 1870s.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc2000/alm00oct.htm (3168 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.
	onmilwaukee.com /visitors/articles/peshtigo.html (925 words)

	City of Peshtigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The great Peshtigo fire of 1871 claimed the lives of 800 men, women and children and leveled the town.
		A museum is housed in the first church built in Peshtigo after this disaster, and is a living model of the area's history.
		Peshtigo has grown from the ashes of this great disaster to become the second largest city in Marinette County.
	www.marinettecounty.com /cc_city_peshtigo.htm (202 words)

	Midwest Destination: Peshtigo Fire Museum, Peshitgo, Marinette County, Wisconsin / ComPortOne of Rockford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Loss of life and even property in the great fire (occurring even the same night in Chicago) did not match the death toll and destruction visited upon NE Wisconsin during the same dreadful hours.
		The town of Peshtigo was centered around a woodenware factory, the largest in the country.
		The memory of 350 unidentified men, women and children is preserved in a nearby mass grave." Incredibly sad stories are found throughout the museum and especially on the tombstones adjacent to the museum.
	www.comportone.com /cpo/destination/articles/peshtigofire.htm (380 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)

	peshtigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Almost to the minute that the fabled Chicago Fire broke out, a more deadly, yet far less famous fire was beginning to rage some 240 miles to the north.
		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.
	www.davidstuff.com /historical/peshtigo.htm (700 words)

	JS Online: History seared into Peshtigo's memory
		Peshtigo - The walls of City Hall are adorned with historic photographs, among them a picture of Peshtigo's first fire department gathered around its horse-drawn pumper, a later version of the same department and, from early in the 1900s, a photo of a smiling, waving Uncle Sam in the Fourth of July parade.
		The fire was on Oct. 8, 1871, the same day as the famed Great Chicago Fire, though the even greater fire (isn't "great" an odd description for such terrible events?) at Peshtigo took five times as many victims.
		When fire came, it whipped into Peshtigo on tornado winds, with flames that reached hundreds of feet and told residents in no uncertain terms their community was a goner.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=134465&format=print (1069 words)

	Fire History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The US Fire Service has a rich and colorful history, the first volunteer Fire Department was started by Benjamin Franklin in 1736 in Philadelphia, PA. For the full story go here.
		It was this that brought the Dalmatian to the fire house as the dog that would clear the way ahead of or around the horse-drawn apparatus.
		The history of fire apparatus is as colorful as the history of firefighting itself.
	www.newmarketfire.com /history.htm (1046 words)

	Chicago and Peshtigo fires
		Peshtigo sits in the center of a region about 200 miles due north of Chicago that was destroyed by fire on the same night.
		It is possible that the Peshtigo fire is not well known because they did not have the benefit of the Chicago Tribune to dramatize it.
		Fire fighters are taught that there are reasons for a fire to be large and widespread within a short period of time.
	www.riotacts.com /fire/cow-comet.html (4302 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / FIRE MAKES WIND: WIND MAKES FIRE
		Peshtigo awoke on the eighth of October to find a copper sun in the sky and a village that lay baked and sultry in an autumn heat such as no man, red or white, could recall.
		The fire leaped the broad Menominee River, however, and went raging on to strike with deadly iury the settlement of Birch Creek, Michigan.
		Peshtigo was merely the greatest fire in regard to loss of life.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1956/5/1956_5_52.shtml (3286 words)

	The great Peshtigo fire
		The Peshtigo Fire killed more Americans than any other fire in history but is little known since it occurred the same day as the Great Chicago Fire.
		The Great Peshtigo Fire was, and is, the worst fire in the history of the United States, taking more lives than the next two worst fires combined.
		Although the ultra dry drought conditions are the official cause of the Peshtigo Fire, one theory speculates that a comet struck the earth in the area.
	mt.essortment.com /peshtigofire_rixl.htm (642 words)

	Great Peshtigo Fire
		Traveling in a northeasterly direction, the fire leapt the Peshtigo River and burned a swath through the countryside before reaching the Bay of Green Bay, where it finally died out.
		Yes, The Great Chicago Fire, which consumed 2,000 acres and claimed 300 lives, also occurred on this date — as did fires in Manistee, Saugatuck, and Holland, Michigan — and stole the spotlight from the Peshtigo fire, in part because communications to the rest of the world were better from those places.
		When the fire was over, 300 people of the 300,000 in Chicago were killed, 100,000 were left homeless, 17,500 buildings were destroyed, 73 miles of street were destroyed and $200 million of property...
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2113.html (554 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.
	www.laconiafire.org /great_%20pestigo_%20fire.htm (587 words)

	Inferno > English > Historical Fires > 1871 - Peshtigo Fire
		The fire killed 1,125 people, many of whom suffocated in the wells that they took shelter in, drowned in the river, or couldn’t outrun the flames.
		News of this fire took several days to reach the rest of the country, but was quickly forgotten as the Great Chicago Fire continued to dominate the headlines of America’s newspapers.
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum opened in 1963 to honor those who died in the Peshtigo Wildfire, and to tell its story.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0119184/english/historical_fires_peshtigo_fire.shtml (410 words)

	Peshtigo Times Wisconsin Article Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Still remembered as a great tragedy is the Peshtigo Fire of Oct. 8, 1871 when a over 1,200 persons lost their lives and a small town was completely burned with only house left standing.
		A case in point is the Peshtigo tabernacle which plays an important part in Father Peter Pernin's account of the disastrous Peshtigo fire on the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, 105 years ago this week.
		After the fire, he went to Canada where he rested his nerves and wrote the account of the fire with which he hoped (in vain) to raise money to rebuild the church at Marinette.
	www.webmediainc.com /54157PT/PeshtigoTimes.taf?function=detail&Layout1_uid2=4226 (1765 words)

	Fire Prevention
		Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire, the tragic 1871 conflagration that killed more than 250 people, left 100,000 homeless, destroyed more than 17,400 structures and burned more than 2,000 acres.
		While the Great Chicago Fire was the best-known blaze to start during this fiery two-day stretch, it wasn't the biggest.
		• When sprinklers are present, the chances of dying in a fire and the average property loss per fire are both cut by one-half to two-thirds, compared to where sprinklers are not present.
	www.greenlawnfiredept.com /prev.html (2860 words)

	Peshtigo Times - Peshtigo Fire Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the roaring flames passed through Peshtigo, and the powerful winds died down, survivors of the 1871 blaze began putting the pieces of their lives back together.
		Although the town was completely destroyed, many items weathered the fire's intense flames, and now these artifacts are preserved in the Peshtigo Fire Museum.
		The Peshtigo Fire Museum is located in the heart of Peshtigo and is open Memorial Day weekend through Oct. 8.
	www.peshtigotimes.com /FireMuseum.html (400 words)

	Click2Disasters - The Great Fire - Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although Chicago received most of the publicity (and national aid), the fire in Wisconsin was much more deadly.
		To this day, Peshtigo’s fire ranks as the worst American forest fire disaster.
		The town’s river was the only haven from the fire, but even there people died.
	www.awesomestories.com /disasters/great_fire/great_fire_ch5.htm (219 words)

	The Great Peshtigo Fire
		Both fires remain today among the worst natural disasters to befall the Midwest.
		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."
	www.wisconsinhistory.org /publications/books/peshtigo_fire2.asp (397 words)

	Welcome to the Peshtigo River Resort Events Page!
		The Peshtigo River Resort hosts an Annual Walleye Tournament on High Falls Flowage in mid-May. This tournament is run as a benefit for the Peshtigo River Sportsmans' Society's, with 80% of the entry fee going to the walleye stocking program.
		Located nearby are the Crivitz Area Museum, the Peshtigo Fire Museum and Logging Museums in Marinette and Wabeno.
		For those who love to walk, there is an abundance of forested land open to the public including state and county forests and parks in the nearby area, as well as trails in the Nicolet National Forest.
	www.peshtigoriverresort.com /events.html (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History: Books: Denise ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Peshtigo, with a population of nearly 2,000, was obliterated in less than an hour that night by a freakish convergence of rampant forest fires and tornado-force winds.
		Peshtigo was remote, and earlier fires had destroyed telegraph lines, so although the scale of the disaster was considerably larger than Chicago's, the loss was relatively little known and quickly forgotten.
		The massive Tornado-whipped fire that engulfed the town of Preshtigo, Wisconsin, on October 8, 1871, was one of the deadliest natural disasters in American history, consuming perhaps as many as 2500 lives.
	www.amazon.com /Firestorm-Peshtigo-Deadliest-American-History/dp/0805072934 (1905 words)

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