The Cellar on Peshtigo's Darkest Night
On the evening of October 8, 1871, while the nation's attention would later fix on the Great Chicago Fire, something far deadlier swept through Peshtigo,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Nahum 1:7.
On the evening of October 8, 1871, while the nation's attention would later fix on the Great Chicago Fire, something far deadlier swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin. A firestorm — fed by drought, logging debris, and gale-force winds — generated temperatures exceeding 2,000 degrees. Trees exploded. The air itself ignited. Fifteen hundred people perished in roughly ninety minutes. But not everyone.…
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