a devastating fire
Westfield disaster happened in 1871.
hurricane
The Great Chicago Fire
the great Chicago fire
St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Great Chicago fire of 1871, The Chicago Loop Flood.
There was no public library in Chicago when the 1871 fire happened. After the fire, the city of London donated 8,000 books. The Chicago Public Library opened in 1873.
Ulysses S. Grant was the President of the United States in 1871.
The First European trading settlement in Chicago was established in the 1770's. In 1803 Fort Dearborn was established. The Fort Dearborn Massacre of 1812. In 1833 Chicago was established with a population of 200. In 1840 the population was 4,000. The City was incorporated in 1837. The Great Chicago fire was in 1871.
It was a muniitions explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California on 17 July 1944 which killed 320 civilian and and Navy laborers. The explosion registered 3.4 on the Richter scale at the University of California,wounded another 390 and in 1011 dollars, the loss was equal to $124 million.
In 1871.
One significant disaster in 1879 was the Tay Bridge Disaster in Scotland, where a railway bridge collapsed during a storm, resulting in a train plunging into the river below and the loss of many lives.
eastland disaster