On Oct. 8, 1871, even as the Great Chicago Fire roared 250 miles south, the arguably greater Peshtigo Fire still considered the deadliest fire in United States history leveled more than 1 million acres, flattened 16 neighboring towns and killed between 1,200 and 1,500 people.
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