The Smaller Wisconsin Firestorm That Killed a Hundred and Fifty People the Same Night as Peshtigo and That No One Remembers
On 8 October 1871 — the same night the Peshtigo Fire killed over 1,500 people in northeastern Wisconsin and the Great Chicago Fire killed approximately 300 in Illinois — a third major firestorm struck the Door Peninsula on the western shore of Lake Michigan and killed approximately 150 people. It is the forgotten member of the same one-night fire complex.
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