“A City Ready to Burn”
By:Talyn Houghton
On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871.
At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it just picked the fire up and threw it from house to house and building to building. The wind made the fire easily to spread and the Chicago’s people didn't believe what the fire had done to the city, but the wind made the fire bigger
By:Talyn Houghton
On October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois was a city ready to burn. In the book The Great Fire, the author Jim Murphy gave enough evidence to show that Chicago was a city ready to burn into a mountain of flames in 1871.
At the onset, the city was a windy city anyway but tonight it was just so out of hand that (60 miles per hour)when the fire started in the O’leary’s barn they said that the cow kicked the lamp over when she was milking it, the wind it just picked the fire up and threw it from house to house and building to building. The wind made the fire easily to spread and the Chicago’s people didn't believe what the fire had done to the city, but the wind made the fire bigger