Category: History - American

A Letter From the Fire: Being an Account of the Great Chicago Fire.

Foster, Thomas Dove, 1847-1915; Foster, Thomas Henry, 1875-1951 [Author of introduction, etc.]· 2 chapters· 5,883 words

Since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, now slumbering eternally beneath the waters of the Dead Sea, the pages of history have been illumined at intervals by the glare of mighty conflagrations, and the Fire Fiend has never ceased to exact his toll from the world’s most famous ci...

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1. Part 1

Since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, now slumbering eternally beneath the waters of the Dead Sea, the pages of history have been illumined at intervals by the glare of mighty c...

2. Part 2

The bars across the river represent the turn bridges. 1 is where the fire commenced, 2 where I crossed the river the first time, 3 where I crossed the second, 4 where I crossed...