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great fire of chicago
the fire went on for more than 24 hours it killed over 300 people which meant 1/3 of the popultion was homeless some people think the fire started from a barn owned by patrick and catherine oleary it was 4 miles long and 1 mile wide 17,500 building were gone and 73 miles of land -
traiangle shirtwaist company fire
this fire killed 146 people they had lots of sucurity which was only one door being able to open and the doors opening inward and people crowding the door trying to get out people tried suing elevators but it couldnt take down that many people at a time they also only had elevators this invention helped by makeing doors open outward the firehose to reach higher than 7 stories and having stairs and elevators -
sinking of the titanic