CITY IN FLAMES
The following perspectives, song, and poem demonstrate the horrifying impact the flames left on the residents of Chicago.
“The wind, blowing a hurricane, howling like myriads of evil spirits, drove the flames before it with a force & fierceness which could never be described or imagined... ...it was not flame but a solid wall of fire which was hurled against the buildings & the houses did not burn, they were simply destroyed.”
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“The rapidity was almost incredible, the wind blew a hurricane, the air was full of burning boards and shingles flying in every direction, and falling everywhere around us.”
“I could only think of Sodom or Pompeii, and truly I thought the day of judgment had come. It seemed as if the whole world were running like ourselves, fire all around us, and where should we go?”
“The alarm and strain upon our feelings was so intense that none of us, not even the children, knew what we wanted or what we had been through.”
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Author: Dwight Williams