The biggest fire in history in Chicago

October 8, 1871 is a Sunday, on the streets of Chicago, America, people play crowded streets. It was getting dark, suddenly a house in the Northeast of the city caught fire. The firefighting team heard the news and had not brought the tools before, and heard a second fire. Bauyn Blue Church is more than 3 km away from the place of the first fire. They hastily split half of the church firefighters. Then the fire alarm everywhere rang out. The fire fighting team ran east running west, not knowing where to fire.

Cosmic fire and mysterious fire in Chicago

Chicago was dubbed the " Wind City" . The fire that borrowed the wind, the more it burned. After half an hour since the first fire called for help, the whole city was engulfed in flames. No power can resist the advance of the fire god . The people panicked and ran out of the house. On the street, the man rushed to find a place without fire to hide himself. Ordinary people rely on their feet to run, the rich also throw away horses, ride on their panic horses, aim at the suburbs to " break ", on the way to trampled on many people.

Previous scene at home fire.

Fires occurred at an early age, people were not yet asleep. The number of people killed by fire and death due to trampled horses and slanted shoes also reached over thousand people. In addition, several hundred more people died in the suburban street. The fire lasted until the next morning (October 9). The crowded city center turned into rubble, 17,000 houses burned. According to the Fire Committee report, the city's total loss of up to $ 150 million (more than $ 2 billion today), 125,000 people lost their homes.

Who has caused this fire? The newspapers reported that there was a cow who knocked down the kerosene lamp, set fire to the barn, and the fire spread throughout the city. The speaker kept saying, the townspeople kept believing.

Scene of people running fire

Mácchin was the fire chief commander on the scene, with the above conclusion of the journalist only pouting his nose. After the fire, he investigated and said: "Everywhere the fire burns, this fire is only in a flash that has spread throughout the city. Tell it to start from a certain house and spread it to a large area - that's It is impossible that . If it is not a "flying fire", then it can't be just a moment to become a sea of ​​fire? ".

The witnesses said clearly: "It seems the whole sky burns. Hot stones fall from the sky ." . Rain of fire fell from above his head. In the evening of the same day, in many areas of Chicago, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Nebraska State, Kansas State, Indiana, many areas of firewood and grassland were involved in fires. How could there be such a strange fire, where did that fire come from ?.

At the lake, an iron rack supporting the shipyard 's ship was also burned to the point where the iron melted together, while there was no architectural work around. In the city, a marble statue is melted. So what must the temperature be? The wooden house burns up to a few hundred degrees, cannot melt iron and stone.

Chicago city after the fire

Hundreds of people tried to break out of the circle of fire to run out of the city to find the way of life, and they could also reach the suburbs, but somehow they all died together . Examine their bodies, it is known that their death has nothing to do with fire.

In short, no one believed, a cow that rammed an oil lamp led to the destruction of Chicago. So who is the culprit causing the fire? American scholar W. Ximôberin has studied many astronomical cases, contrasting the relationship between the atmosphere and the fire, assuming the "meteor shower to come ".

Comet is one of the sources of meteor shower . W.Bira, a Czech astronomer, discovered in 1826 a comet named " Bira comet ". Bira comets every 6.6 years turn around the Sun. In 1846, when it landed on Earth, the comet core was broken in half. In 1852, after the comet was broken in half, the two parts were 2.4 million kilometers apart, then soon disappeared.

On October 8, 1871 one of the comet nuclei swept across the Earth, the point of passing right into the United States caused a meteor shower to fall, most of which was burned by friction in the atmosphere. The remaining rocks fall to the ground, have a very high temperature, enough to melt both metal and stone. The culprit of the Chicago fire, that "heavenly fire " destroyed the city. Specks of "heavenly fire " scattered across the surrounding states, also causing forest fires and grasslands. These rocks carry a large amount of carbon dioxide and cyanobacteria, which can form deadly " microclimate " zones , causing people to not burn and die. Several hundred people ran out to the empty road in the suburbs, coinciding with that "dead zone".

What remains after college night in Chicago, USA

The above hypothesis of Xuamberin, the narrative sounds reasonable, completely rejects the idea of ​​a bullock. But scientists who respect the objective reality do not think so, because so far, no evidence has been found to corroborate the Xiamôberin hypothesis: for example, falling pieces of rhinestones down to the city of Chicago at that time, the land was contaminated by "fire", trees . still have not found anything. Furthermore, comets are giant objects that do not exist, the atmosphere is Earth's self-protective shield, although comet matter ( comet nucleus) cannot cause disaster if it encounters the Earth. , because it will be burnt out in the atmosphere, there can be no more rocks falling to the ground. If the haze is still falling on Earth, it cannot cause a fire because the friction rock in the atmosphere that produces high temperature is also only on its surface, while inside it is still cold, coming Where can Earth produce fire?

Fires in Chicago are still a secret of the world so far. It is assumed that Ximôberin's "meteor shower brings fire" , although there is no evidence, people do not give any evidence to reject it. In the debate on this issue, scientists draw the least conclusions: need to be alert to fire from outer space, just in case the meteor shower can suddenly raid on Earth. .