What started the great Chicago fire of 1871?Chicago Fire- October 1871

The Chicago Fire of 1871 is also known as the Great Chicago Fire which was flashed from October 8 to October 10 in1871 and demolished thousands of buildings. Also, killed an evaluation about 300 people. It gives rise to an estimated $200 million in damages.

Reason behind fire

Folk tales says that Vandals, milk thieves, a drunken neighbor, spontaneous combustion, even (though unlikely) the O’Learys’ legendary cow—any could have knock out over a lantern in a barn or started the gaze and began the fire.

But other arguments hold that human beings might be responsible for the mishappening that left a region of about four miles extensive and almost a mile broad of the Windy City which compromises of its occupation sectors in disintegration. Subsequently the blaze restoration efforts began rapidly and stimulated significant economic development and population widening.

Effects of the fire

Dry weather and an plenty of wooden buildings, streets made Chicago endangered to fire in October 1871. On the night of October 8, The Great Chicago Fire began, at 137 DeKoven Street on the city’s southwest side in a barn located on the property of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. Catherine O’Leary contradicts this charge, and the accurate cause of the fire has never been analyzed. Misguided fire apparatus arrived too behind the time and a stable wind from the southwest carried the blaze and flaming scrap from block to block.

The slums became ignite for the downtown firestorm, where even the believably fire-resistant stone and brick buildings blow up in flames as the demolition swept northward. Also, the fact that is known was that the fire immediately grew out of control and flowed rapidly north and east in direction to the city center. Narrowly rainfall, the lake, and extends of wreck of lots on the North Side finally discontinued the wave of demolishment on the morning of October 10.