Download or read book Michigan on Fire 2 written by Betty Sodders and published by Thunder Bay Press (MI). This book was released on 1999 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 8, 1871 was forever known and the day Michigan burned. But it was not the first or the last of the great Michigan forest fires. Fires had burned through Michigan's Thumb area as early as 1853, 1861, 1862, 1864 and again in 1881. The 1871 fires ate their way through parts of Menominee County, most of the territory from the shores of Lake Michigan to Lake Huron, and downward into the Thumb. In its course, Holland, Manistee and Glen Haven were destroyed, as were at least 40 smaller villages and hamlets.This comprehensive book covers the relief work of the American Red Cross; the story of the Upper Peninsula fires and the burning of Ontonagon, which pitted corporate greed against the general population; to a rescue by sea of two lighthouse keepers threatened by high seas on one side and an approaching wildfire on the other. Also covers the Metz tragedy in which women and children were burned to death in a railroad car and the twin fires in Au Sable and Oscoda. Discusses the history of forest firefighting and equipment in Michigan.
Download or read book Michigan on Fire written by Betty Sodders and published by Thunder Bay Press (MI). This book was released on 1997 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Significant Michigan forest fires from 1871 through 1911. Features the Metz Fire of 1908 and the Ausable-Oscoda Fire of 1911.
Download or read book Michigan on Fire written by Betty Sodders and published by . This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Day of Days written by John Smolens and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe’s wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, Day of Days examines how such traumatic events scar one’s life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future.
Download or read book Annual Report of State Fire Marshal to the Governor of Michigan written by Michigan. State Fire Marshal and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Michigan s Great Thumb Fires of 1871 and 1881 written by Alan Naldrett and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-26 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is unimaginable to picture whole cities burning, much less whole counties, but that was the case in 1871, and then remarkably, ten years later again in 1881. The whole Michigan Thumb suffered two disastrous fires. The Thumb Fire of 1881 brought the American Red Cross to the first major disaster they brought relief to. The combination of the two fires marked the end of the lumber industry in the Thumb and the clearing of the land for agriculture. But that was the only benefit, as each fire brought over 200 dead, tens of thousands homeless, and thousands suffering burns, inhalation, smoke blindness, and more from the fires.
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Download or read book Biennial Report of the Treasurer of State to the Governor of Iowa written by Iowa. Department of Treasurer of State and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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