A Letter From the Fire: Being an Account of the Great Chicago Fire.

From a photograph taken in London, Can., shortly after the Chicago Fire

A LETTER FROM THE FIRE
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE
WRITTEN IN 1871
THOMAS D. FOSTER
PRIVATELY PRINTED 1923

THE TORCH PRESS CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA

Since the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, now slumbering eternally beneath the waters of the Dead Sea, the pages of history have been illumined at intervals by the glare of mighty conflagrations, and the Fire Fiend has never ceased to exact his toll from the world’s most famous cities.