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Deadliest wildfire in American history. 1871 – Great Michigan Fire of 1871 was a series of simultaneous fires, the most prominent of which was the Port Huron Fire, which killed over 200 people in Port Huron, Michigan. 1871 – The Urbana fire destroyed central Urbana, Illinois, on October 9.
Illinois suffered the most well-known fire in American history, the Great Chicago Fire. The fire broke out at around 8:30 pm on October 8 near or in a barn belonging to the O'Leary family. [ 13 ] The fire is reputed to have been started by a cow belonging to Catherine O'Leary , which knocked over a lantern in a barn, but this is unconfirmed and ...
May 28 – Beverly Hills Supper Club fire killed 165 and injured more than 200 in Southgate, Kentucky; third deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. December 10 – A fire at the Wenonah Hotel in Bay City, Michigan, killed 10. [43] December 13 – A fire in the Aquinas Hall dormitory at Providence College in Rhode Island, killed 10 students.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [3]
The fire caused 602 deaths and 250 non-fatal injuries. [1] It ranks as the worst theater fire in the United States, surpassing the carnage of the Brooklyn Theatre fire of 1876, which claimed at least 278 lives. [2] For nearly a century, the Iroquois Theatre fire was the deadliest single-building disaster in American history. [3]
Including 23 deaths from a bus fire during evacuations in Wilmer, Texas [27] 119-120 [28] [29] 1863 New York City draft riots: Riot: New York City, New York: $1–5 million (1863) It was the worst civil unrest in modern U.S. history. Required diverting Union Army troops from the front to put down. 119 1924 Benwood mine disaster: Accident ...
The largest Fire in U.S. history burned an area the size of Connecticut (3,000,000 acres ... Cloosh Valley saw the worst of these fires with 1,500 hectares (5.8 ...
Bird's-eye map of Chicago highlighting the area specifically affected by the 1874 fire. The Chicago Fire of 1874 took place on July 14. Reports of the extent of the damage vary somewhat, but sources generally agree that the fire burned 47 acres (19 ha) [1] just south of the Loop, destroyed 812 structures and killed 20 people. [2]