CHICAGO (CBS) -- On the night of Sunday, Oct. 8, 1871, a fire broke out in or ... It of course became known as the Great Chicago Fire. Firsthand accounts of the fire were colorful and horrific.

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In the era when American cities regularly caught fire, the widespread destruction seeded what looks, in retrospect, like ...

O’Leary’s cow kicked over the lantern that allegedly started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 has the Windy City seen the likes ...

Fall 1871: Chicago is a tinderbox ... interested to pick up large cinders about our house... We learned of the great fire that had occurred the night before... It was a wonder that these huge ...

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The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to ...

The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on Oct. 8, 1871. The Great Chicago Fire? Right date, wrong event.