THE PESHTIGO FIRE (PT. 2 OF 2)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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First- my apologies to Wisconsinites for my pronunciation of Peshtigo, which should see an accent on "Pesh"., not "Ti" as I have done. I relied totally upon visual research and not audio. The story: On October 8, 1871, an area of Northeastern Wisconsin half again the size of New Hampshire was utterly destroyed by a cyclonic wildfire which was being driven by winds in excess of 100 miles per hour. Somewhere between 1500 and 3,000 people were killed, and the damage to farms, homes, and livestock was beyond measure. Twelve communities were literally wiped out. The little town of Peshtigo suffered the most fatalities. On that same day, far away from Peshitgo, a cow kicked over a lantern in Mrs. O'Leary's barn in Chicago, starting a conflagration that destroyed most of that city. It was Chicago that received all the headlines- yet the Peshtigo fire still stands and America;s deadliest fire ever. This includes the eyewitness account of the Catholic pastor Father Perrin- whose account served as the basis for the handful of articles and books that followed. We offer this episode parts 1 and 2 in the memory of those who suffered loss in the Peshtigo Fire.
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| 1:31.0 | In history books, that day marks the tragedy remembered as the Chicago Fire, which gutted most of that city's core and cost hundreds of millions and damages. |
| 1:40.0 | But few people know or remember the Pestigo Wisconsin Fire, which occurred that same day. |
| 1:47.0 | And for that reason, missed the headlines it deserved when over 1,500 people in 12 communities were burned to death in a cyclone-style |
| 1:56.4 | wildfire that destroyed homes, businesses, towns, and farms over an area half again as large as the state of New Hampshire. |
| 2:07.0 | Today in part two we remember that tragedy and remember the lives of those who suffered. In the same way we covered the titanic story with the eyewitness account, the loss of the titanic, we offered the remainder of the eyewitness account of the Pestigo Fire by Father Perrin who served two churches in that area |
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