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I don't know. The lantern could have been on a bucket. Now I have to go look it up. Not your bad.
Did Mrs. O'Leary's Cow Start the Great Chicago Fire? - ThoughtCo
https://www.thoughtco.com/mrs-olearys-cow-great-chicago-fire-1774059
Popular legend has long held that a cow being milked by Mrs. Catherine O'Leary kicked over a kerosene lantern, igniting a barn fire that spread into the Great Chicago Fire .The famous story appeared soon after colossal fire that consumed much of Chicago and has spread ever since. But was the cow really the culprit? Nope!
The O'Leary family, who were immigrants from Ireland, lived at 137 De Koven Street in Chicago. Mrs. O'Leary had a small dairy business, and she routinely milked cows in a barn behind the family's cottage.
So, part of the legend seems to be true. A fire did begin in O'Leary's barn at about 9:00 pm on Sunday, October 8, 1871.Catherine O'Leary and her husband Patrick, a Civil War veteran, later swore that they had already retired for the night and were in bed when they heard neighbors calling out about the fire in the barn. By some accounts, a rumor about a cow kicking over a lantern began spreading almost as soon as the first fire company responded to the blaze.
However, another rumor in the neighborhood was that a boarder in the O'Leary house, Dennis "Peg Leg" Sullivan, had slipped into the barn to have a few drinks with some of his friends. During their revelry they started a fire in the barn's hay by smoking pipes.
It is also possible the fire ignited from an ember which blew from a nearby chimney. Many fires did start that was in the 1800s, though they didn't have the conditions to spread as quickly and widely as the fire that night in Chicago.
No one will ever know what really happened that night in the O'Leary barn. What isn't disputed is that a fire began there and the blaze quickly spread. Assisted by strong winds, the barn fire eventually turned into the Great Chicago Fire.
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