Good morning,
Whitewater’s forecast calls for a warm day, with a high of eighty-seven degrees, and a chance of scattered thunderstorms.
In Wisconsin history, the Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 1894,
Forest Fire Destroys Phillips
On the afternoon of this day, a forest fire swept over the Price Co. town of Phillips from the west, destroying nearly all the buildings and forcing 2,000 people to flee for their lives. When the sun came up the next morning, 13 people had been killed, the entire downtown was in ashes, and exhausted survivors were wandering through the ruins in a daze. The fire ultimately consumed more than 100,000 acres in Price County. Much of the town was rebuilt within a year.
Phillips is far north of Whitewater, in Price County:
