It was creating huge convection updrafts, which in turn intensified the fire’s wind. At this point the fire was reaching maximum temperatures. The fires throughout Oconto County had ‘crowned’ in the trees and when a fire crowns in the forest even trained firefighters get out of its way. “Within five minutes no one in Peshtigo could distinguish the main fire from the tornado or the main fire from the secondary fires or the firebrands. In Firestorm at Peshtigo, Denise Gess and William Lutz vividly re-create the personal and political battles leading to this monumental natural disaster, and deliver it from the lost annals of American history.more At the center of the blowo On October 8, 1871-the same night as the Great Chicago Fire-the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of one hundred miles per hour that tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating the town in less than one hour and killing more than two thousand people.Īt the center of the blowout were politically driven newsmen Luther Noyes and Franklin Tilton, money-seeking lumber baron Isaac Stephenson, parish priest Father Peter Pernin, and meteorologist Increase Lapham. On October 8, 1871-the same night as the Great Chicago Fire-the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, was struck with a five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of one hundred miles per hour that tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating the town in less than one hour and killing more than two thousand people.
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