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"Why is this story as yet not known? You see unlimited experiences about Johnstown. What took place at Peshtigo makes Johnstown appear to be a birdbath.... The air burned hotter than a crematorium and the fireplace traveled at 90 mph. I read an account of the Civil Conflict veteran who was simply through a few of the worst battles of the conflict. He referred to the sound - the roar - during the fireplace as 100 times higher than any artillery bombardment." - Costs Lutz, co-author of Firestorm at Peshtigo In probably the most famous fireplace in American record, a blaze in the southwestern portion of Chicago began to burn up of control on the night of Oct 8, 1871. It possessed used about 40 years for Chicago to expand from a small settlement of about 300 people into a growing metropolis with a society of 300,000. But in just two times in 1871, a lot of that improvement was burned to the bottom. Because of the publicity generated with a fireplace that reduced the majority of a major American city to ash, the Peshtigo Open fire of 1871 might quite be called America's overlooked catastrophe. Overshadowed by the much better-covered and publicized Great Chicago Open fire that occurred on a single evening, the fireplace that started in the Wisconsin logging town of Peshtigo generated a firestorm unlike anything in American record. Furthermore to destroying a broad swath of land, it killed at least 1,500 people and possibly as many as 2,500 - many times more than the number of casualties in Chicago. While people marveled at the fact that the fantastic Chicago Fire managed to hop a river, the Peshtigo fireplace was so strong that it could jump several mls across Green Bay. While thinking about aloud about how the Peshtigo fireplace has been overlooked, Bill Lutz known, "Fires are normally very fascinating to the people, but people appear resistant to Peshtigo."
