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Podcast: The Great Deception Podcast
Episode: Great Fires on the Same Day of October 1871 (Chicago, Peshtigo, Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario) Part 2
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Welcome to episode 54 of The Great Deception Podcast, Part 2 of the Great Fires of October 8 1871 in Chicago, Peshtigo, Michigan and more. I will read thru first hand accounts of the horrors of that night and those thereafter and discuss what happened. The description of the scenes are horrifying and the accounts give some insight into the devastation and what it took to survive. What could cause a fire so hot it would melt a bell? Partially melt a steel train wheel? What are fire balloons and why did witnesses report these in Peshtigo? We kn...