did a cow really start Chicago fire that took almost the whole city?

Answer 1

http://www.chicagohs.org/

Great website for any information on Chicago. O 'Leary's cow is rumored to have started the fire, but 10 years ago a mock trial was staged and the cow was found innocent. No one knows how it started, but if it were not started the city certainly would not be the wonderful place it is today.

Answer 2

NO, don't blame the poor cow.

Their is no OFFICIAL answer in the investigation as to whom or what started the fire, but Mrs. O'Leary testified that she was in bed and would not have left an open flame in the barn for the cow to knock over. If the O'Leary's had been in the barn when the fire started, why would they have not tried to save their barn?

The sites below show whom they believe caused the fire.

whale

Answer 3

No, I don't think so, and neither do most experts. A show called "Unsolved History" explores many unresolved issues about such things and did one on the Chicago fire. Using computer graphics, contemporary sources, experts, recreations, etc. they investigate unsolved mysteries. It is repeated every few months, so you should try to see it. They make a compelling case for assigning the blame to one man who first notified everyone of the fire.

Answer 4

Legend has it that Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over a lantern that started the Chicago fire!!

Answer 5

No, any sports team that visits Chicago takes the whole city.

Answer 6

One careless journey has an extremely low danger of beginning a woodland hearth. One careless journey in step with incident situations hundreds of incidents of human beings carelessly throwing fits equals hundreds of careless fits. hundreds of careless fits is so a lot greater advantageous than one container.

Answer 7

That's the rumor. But, we'll never really know for sure.

Answer 8

The great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, started in the Pontius Building at the corner of Front and Madison Streets in what was known as the Denny block. In his lively history of Seattle, Murray Morgan describes the origin of the fire:

". . . Madame Feitsworth-Ewens, who specialized in reading the future by means of colored clamshells, was giving a customer some advice in the near-by Pontius Building; in the office next to hers, Dr. Sturgens, a dentist recently from Boston, was peering into the mouth of a logger. On the ground floor of the building J.P. Madigan was showing some boots to a housewife. In the basement James McGough, who ran a paint store and woodwork shop, was finishing a cabinet. His assistant was heating glue over a gasoline stove. Around 2:40 p.m. the glue boiled over. Some of it, falling on the stove, caught fire; flaming gobs of glue splashed on the floor, which was littered with wood shavings and soaked with turpentine. The flames spread over the boards. McGough tried to douse them with water from the fire bucket; the water mixed with the turpentine and burst into flame. McGough and his assistant fled.

"Even before the cabinetmakers rushed from the building someone on the street saw the smoke and called the fire department. The flames burst through the wooden ceiling, driving Madigan and the housewife from the shoe store, Dr. Sturgens and the patient from the dentist’s office, Madam
The great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, started in the Pontius Building at the corner of Front and Madison Streets in what was known as the Denny block. In his lively history of Seattle, Murray Morgan describes the origin of the fire:

". . . Madame Feitsworth-Ewens, who specialized in reading the future by means of colored clamshells, was giving a customer some advice in the near-by Pontius Building; in the office next to hers, Dr. Sturgens, a dentist recently from Boston, was peering into the mouth of a logger. On the ground floor of the building J.P. Madigan was showing some boots to a housewife. In the basement James McGough, who ran a paint store and woodwork shop, was finishing a cabinet. His assistant was heating glue over a gasoline stove. Around 2:40 p.m. the glue boiled over. Some of it, falling on the stove, caught fire; flaming gobs of glue splashed on the floor, which was littered with wood shavings and soaked with turpentine. The flames spread over the boards. McGough tried to douse them with water from the fire bucket; the water mixed with the turpentine and burst into flame. McGough and his assistant fled.

"Even before the cabinetmakers rushed from the building someone on the street saw the smoke and called the fire department. The flames burst through the wooden ceiling, driving Madigan and the housewife from the shoe store, Dr. Sturgens and the patient from the dentist’s office, Madam
The great Seattle fire of June 6, 1889, started in the Pontius Building at the corner of Front and Madison Streets in what was known as the Denny block. In his lively history of Seattle, Murray Morgan describes the origin of the fire:

". . . Madame Feitsworth-Ewens, who specialized in reading the future by means of colored clamshells, was giving a customer some advice in the near-by Pontius Building; in the office next to hers, Dr. Sturgens, a dentist recently from Boston, was peering into the mouth of a logger. On the ground floor of the building J.P. Madigan was showing some boots to a housewife. In the basement James McGough, who ran a paint store and woodwork shop, was finishing a cabinet. His assistant was heating glue over a gasoline stove. Around 2:40 p.m. the glue boiled over. Some of it, falling on the stove, caught fire; flaming gobs of glue splashed on the floor, which was littered with wood shavings and soaked with turpentine. The flames spread over the boards. McGough tried to douse them with water from the fire bucket; the water mixed with the turpentine and burst into flame. McGough and his assistant fled.

"Even before the cabinetmakers rushed from the building someone on the street saw the smoke and called the fire department. The flames burst through the wooden ceiling, driving Madigan and the housewife from the shoe store, Dr. Sturgens and the patient from the dentist’s office, Madam