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Show Page 2%—THE HERALD,Prove, , Utah Sunday, October 30, 1971 4 Times More Than Chicago Coed Dies In Utah Car Crash Peshtigo, Wisc., Fire 100 Years Ago Was Nation’s WorstKiller, Nearly 1200 People served that the year might become thehottest and driest in memory. But by autumn their midnight Friday when the car she was in rolled over eight miles east of here, The Utah Highway Patrol identified tue victim as Maxine M.Martin. She was killed when thrown outof tho vehicle, troopers said, Five other persons were in the car, but only sustained minor injuries. The driver wasidentified as John Stewart Jr., 18, no home town available. He is a student at S as are the other observations were more than casual; they were concerned In the surrounding woods and countryside fires burned fitfully September, catching, dying, flaring once again, and the people feared one might reach the town. Their fears proved more than justified when, on a night 100 years ago this month (Oct. 8), not one butall the fires, melded by the vagaries of weather, stormed the town. By morning four passengers Peshtigo had been consumed, as Troopers said the Stewart car rolled off U-14 on Cedar Mountain, throwing mostof the occuits out. The car apparently rolied over Miss Martin. had almost everything else burnable on 400 square miles. The Peshtigo forest fire still stands as the most murderous fire of any kind to strike the United States. It’s toll: at least 1,182 dead, almostfive times the numberof fatalities caused by Dugway Suspect Transferred seemed to be farawayfires. The air was still. Then, within minutes, the sky lightened. And seconds later a slabof fire slipped out of the sky, down into a sawduststreet. It was the first drop of what suddenly became a pelting storm offire. burning at the same time, In an instanttie entire town Could a forest fire be so had started to burn, depleting disastrous today? Hardly so in the oxygen available even outof terms oflives lost, but easily so doors, Some people made it to in terms of acreage burned, according to American Forest Institute, a Arsonist Se lasted 30 hours, destroyed 17,500 buildings with a property loss set at $196 million (values The of that day) and a death toll of about 300 looking northeast, with Lake Michig: jan in the background, Fire started in the O'Leary barn (whether Mrs. Q’Leary’s cow kicked the lantern over is a matter of historical dispute) charges against the soldier. The first newspaper California was published 1846, Night came and the horizon glowed red with what the Chicago fire, which was DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS, Utah (UPI) — The Army Friday transferred the suspectin the knife - slaying of Mrs. Oaksun Murray to Fort Carson, Colo., but did not file The victim's husband, S-Sgt. William T. Murray, returned from his post in Vietnam Friday and sawhis daughters, Cindy, 1, and Katy, 3, at a base hospital where they were recovering from neck wounds like those that killed their mother. Mrs. Murray's nude body was found on the living room floor ‘of her house Wednesday morning by a 12year-old baby-sitter who had slept through the killing in a back bedroom, fell briefly on July 8. The next the river (even there a number ignition point. At that point rain to fall was rain offire, the died of asphyxiation), but many gaseous substances aredistilled did not from the wood fuels, the gasses That day the sun, coppered Next morning some deaths burn, then the charcoalleft after since dawn, had disappeared at were recorded merely by the distillation burns, and only ash noon in a haze of ash and smoke. location of metal objects — remains. What apparently A seemingly sourceless yellow nickle garter buckles, rings, happaned that night was that lightflushed the }ind, woods and watch fobs — in mounds of heatdistilled from abundantfuel town, Still, the people of ashes. It is assumed many more flammable gasses than Peshtigo went about their work; bodies outside of town were could be burned in the existing theylived bythe timer industry, never found, and hence the in- oxygen, and the gasses escaped and Peshtigo Harbor was definite toll — more than 1,182. unburned. Pushed ahead of the possibly the biggest wood Valueof property destroyed wes fire by cenvection winds, they burst into flame when they processing center in the world at set that year at $5 million. that time. The town, through What had hit Peshtigo was a encountered sufficient oxygen. which ran the Peshtigo River, firestorm, the phenomenon of and fell down upenthe town morning rain was a wood townin more than large acreagesof fuel burning in — it had ‘wood a relatively short time. The fire beganto fall and putthefires out jank sidewalks and preheats fuel around it to for geod. sawdust streets. e LOWES LOWES LOWES LOWES LOWES LOWES LOWES nightof Oct. 8. and spreadtothe sorth.andeast, ReesRuss Moon Buggy Lasts 11 Months MOSCOW (UPI) —The Soviet Union's Lunokhod moon buggy has ceased to function because of exhaustion of its heating system, Moscow radio announced today. The unmanned moonexplorer i had functioned just one month in in short of a year, far longer than its creators had hoped for. people. While the most publicized fire in the nation, it had far greater financial loss but only one-fourth the death toll as that of the fire which destroyed Peshtigo, Wise. a lumbering town, on exactly the same day, Oct. 8, 1871. (See story on this page.) — 2 Arrested in Brigham Fire WILLARD, Utah (UPI) — Both suspects were graduates FBiagents have arrested a stu- of Box Elder High School where dent and a construction worker the $10,000 fire occurred. for an Oct, 2 fire that destroyThey were charged with deed the Naval ROTC building at struction of private property, a a Brigham City high school. crime which carries a maxiWilliam ©. Schultz, 19, an mum penalty of 10 yearsin jail Army veteran, and Kent W. and $10,000 fine. Davis, 19, a sophomore at Weber State College, were arrestJohn Quincy Adams was born ed Friday and released on $1,- duly 11, 1767 at Braintree, 500 bail. Mass. Institute, a non-profit information and education organization which provides public information on our forests, notes that therearestill vast areas of underdeveloped wilderness and forested public lands all but inaccessible to firefighters. And when weather conditions are such as they were at Peshtigo, almost any fire that cannot be reached by quantities of menafoot can rapidly get out of control, the Institute reperrts. ugh the winter of 1870-71 comparatively little snow fell in northern Wisconsin and Michgan, By summer the lard was dry,the brush, brittle. Ran Soughtin Pocatello POCATELLO (UPI) — Pocatello City Police began looking Saturday: for an arsonist who ignited six early morning fires in a one block area of Pocatello. Firemen were first called whena fire was reported in the old Alameda Water Department shop, now used as a warehouse for items salvaged from the old PioneerHalliwell Baseball Park. xceptfor the warehouse fire, the others were set in garages. Gasoline was splashed to cause the fires. SEMOT SIMO SIMOSAMO SIMO FIMOT CEDAR CITY, Utah (UPI) — SIMOSIMOSIMOSIMOSIMO SIMO SIMOSEMOT SEMOSEMO’ PESHTIGO, Wise. — This town’s 1,700 residents had, throughout the summer, ob- Smith Corona Electric TYPEWRITER Featuring FULL 15 INCH CARRIAGE Model 215-15” Reg. $215.00 - Now $139.50 Model 259-15” Reg. $285.00, Automatic Now $189.50 w/t wit $49.508 $59.50 HON Dr.LetterSize File, Full Sus. HON Dr. LegalSizeFile, Full Sus. 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