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The Spokane Press
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
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Chicago marks the 34th anniversary of the Great Fire started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicking over a lamp on DeKoven Street. Societies like Old Settlers and Pioneers hold evening celebrations. The 1871 fire burned 25 hours, destroying 17,450 houses and public buildings in a 4x1 mile district.
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THE CHICAGO FIRE
(Scripps News Association.)
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—Today is the thirty-fourth anniversary of the day on which Mrs. O'Leary's famous cow kicked over a burning kerosene lamp in its stable on DeKoven street and started a fire which swept through the whole city and destroyed it. The event is not generally celebrated, but several societies, among them the Old Settlers and Pioneers, will hold anniversary celebrations this evening.
The great Chicago fire burned about 25 hours and during that time destroyed, within a district about four miles long and one mile wide, 17,450 houses, including the city hall, the courthouse with all its records, the postoffice and many other public buildings.
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Chicago
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Oct. 9.
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the fire destroyed 17,450 houses, including the city hall, the courthouse with all its records, the postoffice and many other public buildings, within a district about four miles long and one mile wide.
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Today is the thirty-fourth anniversary of the day on which Mrs. O'Leary's famous cow kicked over a burning kerosene lamp in its stable on DeKoven street and started a fire which swept through the whole city and destroyed it. The event is not generally celebrated, but several societies, among them the Old Settlers and Pioneers, will hold anniversary celebrations this evening. The great Chicago fire burned about 25 hours.