The Peshtigo Fire: America's Deadliest Fire, Forgotten

<p>On the night Chicago burned, a far worse fire was devouring a Wisconsin lumber town two hundred and fifty miles away. It moved faster than a horse could run, generated its own tornadoes of flame, and killed perhaps two thousand people in about an hour. It remains the deadliest fire in American history — and almost no one has heard of it.</p><p>August Mercer tells the story of the firestorm that erased a town, and the newspapers that never came. This is Six Feet of History — five minutes of the past they'd rather you forget.</p><p><em>Follow for a new story every day. A Dark Whisper Studios production.</em></p>