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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (21203)4/9/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: ALBERTO  Read Replies (1) of 27307
 
Mr. Mike McFarland,
thank you for your support but I prefer to post infrequently on this thread. I will add this finale thought for now.

Fire Narrative of Bessie Bradwell Helmer

Besides the fact that the Great Chicago Fire started around 9 o'clock on Sunday evening, October 8, 1871, somewhere in or very near the O'Leary barn, the exact particulars of its origins are unknown. But, given the dry summer and the careless way the city had been built and managed, a kick from a cow would have been sufficient but by no means necessary to burn Chicago down. As A.T. Andreas, the city's leading nineteenth-century historian, put it, "Nature had withheld her accustomed measure of prevention, and man had added to the peril by recklessness."
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