A few hundred miles north in Peshtigo, Wisconsin, small forest fires surrounded the city.

在威斯康辛州佩什蒂戈市以北几百英里处，小森林着起的大火包围了这座城市。

Lumber was abundant in Wisconsin, and Peshtigo was — even more so than Chicago — made of wood.

威斯康辛州的木材资源丰富，而佩什蒂戈的木制建设甚至比芝加哥还要多。

Peshtigo, though, was a much smaller city and is still small today.

佩什蒂戈则是一座小得多的城市，现在仍然很小。

By the time the sun rose on October 9, neither Chicago nor Peshtigo would ever be the same again.

到 10 月 9 日太阳升起时，芝加哥和佩什蒂戈都已不再是原来的样子。

The Peshtigo firestorm had made quick work of the city up north: Peshtigo burned to the ground in just a few hours.

佩什蒂戈在短短几个小时内就被烧成了灰烬。

In 1871, on the same night  as the Great Chicago Fire, another fire ravaged Peshtigo in Wisconsin.

1871 年，在芝加哥大火发生的同一天晚上，另一场大火席卷了威斯康星州的佩什蒂戈。

But this did not deter the inhabitants of  Peshtigo from continuing to use fire in their daily activities.

但这并没有阻止 Peshtigo 的居民在日常活动中继续使用火。

In Peshtigo, it was estimated that  around eight hundred people lost their lives.

在 Peshtigo，估计有大约 800 人丧生。

He also established a barge  line between Chicago and the Peshtigo harbor.

他还在芝加哥和佩什蒂戈港之间建立了一条驳船航线。

Fire  was a constant threat to the people of Peshtigo, and smoke would often fill the air requiring  lamps to be lit during the day.

火灾一直威胁着 Peshtigo 的人民，烟雾经常弥漫在空气中，白天需要点灯。

However, the industry itself led  directly to a great disaster in 1871 with the Great fire of Peshtigo. Several factors  came together to create a terrible catastrophe.

然而，该行业本身直接导致了 1871 年的一场大灾难，即佩什蒂戈大火。 几个因素共同造成了一场可怕的灾难。

By the time the sun rose the next morning, 1.2 million acres had burned and more than 1,000 people in Peshtigo and the surrounding areas had lost their lives.

到第二天早上太阳升起时，1200 万英亩的土地被烧毁，佩什蒂戈和周边地区共有 1000 多人失去了生命。

However, firefighters and forest managers still study  the Peshtigo fire to understand and demonstrate how poor forestry practices can exacerbate  the destruction of unpredictable wildfire.

然而，消防员和森林管理人员仍在研究 Peshtigo 大火，以了解和证明不良的林业做法如何加剧不可预测的野火的破坏。

The fire's intensity, aided by a wooden bridge, enabled the blaze to jump the waters of the  Peshtigo River, setting both sides of the town alight.

在一座木桥的帮助下，火势猛烈，使大火跃过 Peshtigo 河的水域，点燃了城镇的两边。

But soon, news came that Peshtigo  was not the only town to have been affected; although no one had died in Marinette, many  of the community buildings had been destroyed.

但很快，有消息传来，Peshtigo 并不是唯一受到影响的城镇；尽管马里内特没有人死亡，但许多社区建筑已被摧毁。

The European settlement of Peshtigo was first founded during the late 1830s, as the  Peshtigo River and the surrounding pine forest gave economic opportunities  for logging and wood products.

Peshtigo 的欧洲定居点最初是在 1830 年代后期建立的，因为 Peshtigo 河和周围的松树林为伐木和木制品提供了经济机会。

Peshtigo's founding was also linked with Chicago, as the former Chicagoan mayor William Ogden bought  thousands of acres of forest and built commercial buildings in the area.

Peshtigo 的成立也与芝加哥有关，因为前芝加哥市长 William Ogden 购买了数千英亩的森林并在该地区建造了商业建筑。

This reasoning may explain why the people  in Peshtigo trying to escape over the bridge were met with others coming the other way;  the fire was closing in on both sides.

这个推理可以解释为什么 Peshtigo 的人试图从桥上逃跑时会遇到其他人从另一条路过来；火势正在向两边逼近。

To learn more about The Peshtigo Fire, check out our book, The Peshtigo Fire of 1871  - A Captivating Guide to the Deadliest Wildfire in the History of the United States of America  That Occurred in North-eastern Wisconsin.

要了解有关 Peshtigo 大火的更多信息，请查看我们的书《1871 年的 Peshtigo 大火 - 美利坚合众国历史上发生在威斯康星州东北部的最致命野火的迷人指南》。

He was not supposed  to be in Peshtigo on that fateful day, but he undoubtedly saved many lives, and his  writings give an incredible insight into what it was like during the deadliest wildfire in history.

在那个决定性的日子里，他不应该出现在佩什蒂戈，但他无疑挽救了许多人的生命，他的著作令人难以置信地洞察了历史上最致命的野火期间的情况。