9 h 59 m, 10 oct 1871 año - Rumors About How the Fire Started to Surface

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Newspapers and public gossip spark many different false rumors with the most famous one being that Catherine O'Leary was milking her cow when the cow knocked over a lamp starting the fire. She was put to trial not too long after the fire was extinguished and she was proven not guilty of starting the fire.


Catherine O’Leary, 1871, Recollection. Abakanowicz Research Center. Chicago History Museum.

Fedler, F. (1986). Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and other newspaper tales about the Chicago Fire of 1871. American Journalism, 3(1), 24–38. https://doi.org/10.1080/08821127.1986.10731054

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