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Artist's rendering of the fire, by Currier and Ives; the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871. The fire killed up to 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km2) of Chicago, Illinois, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless.[1]
Contents
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1 Origin
2 Spread of the fire
3 Aftermath
4 Panorama of Chicago after the 1871 Fire
5 Rumors about the fire
6 Surviving structures
7 Related events
8 In popular culture
9 See also
10 References
11 Further reading
12 External links
Origin[edit]
1871 Chicago view before the 'Great Conflagration'
The fire started at about 9:00 p.m. on October 8, in or around a small barn belonging to the O'Leary family that bordered the alley behind 137 DeKoven Street.[2] The shed next to the barn was the first building to be consumed by the fire, but city officials never determined the exact cause of the blaze.[3] There has, however, been much speculation over the years. The most popular tale blames Mrs. O'Leary's cow, who allegedly knocked over a lantern; others state that a group of men were gambling inside the barn and knocked over a lantern.[4] Still other speculation suggests that the blaze was related to other fires in the Midwest that day.[5]
The fire's spread was aided by the city's use of wood as the predominant building material in a style called balloon frame. More than two thirds of the structures in Chicago at the time of the fire were made entirely of wood, with most of the houses and buildings being topped with highly flammable tar or shingle roofs. All of the city's sidewalks and many roads were also made of wood.[4] Compounding this problem, Chicago had received only 1 inch (2.5 cm) of rain from July 4 to October 9, causing severe drought conditions before the fire, while strong southwest winds helped to carry flying embers towards the heart of the city.[5]:144
In 1871, the Chicago Fire Department had 185 firefighters with just 17 horse-drawn steam engines to protect the entire city.[5]:146 The initial response by the fire department was quick, but due to an error by the watchman, Matthias Schaffer, the firefighters were sent to the wrong place, allowing the fire to grow unchecked.[5]:146 An alarm sent from the area near the fire also failed to register at the courthouse where the fire watchmen were, while the firefighters were tired from having fought numerous small fires and one large fire in the week before.[6] These factors combined to turn a small barn fire into a conflagration.
Spread of the fire[edit]
1868 map of Chicago, highlighting the area destroyed by the fire (location of O'Leary's barn indicated by red dot)
When firefighters finally arrived at DeKoven Street, the fire had grown and spread to neighboring buildings and was progressing towards the central business district. Firefighters had hoped that the South Branch of the Chicago River and an area that had previously thoroughly burned would act as a natural firebreak.[5]:147 All along the river, however, were lumber yards, warehouses, and coal yards, and barges and numerous bridges across the river. As the fire grew, the southwest wind intensified and became superheated, causing structures to catch fire from the heat and from burning debris blown by the wind. Around 11:30 p.m., flaming debris blew across the river and landed on roofs and the South Side Gas Works.[5]:148
With the fire across the river and moving rapidly towards the heart of the city, panic set in. About this time, Mayor Roswell B. Mason sent messages to nearby towns asking for help. When the courthouse caught fire, he ordered the building to be evacuated and the prisoners jailed in the basement to be released. At 2:30 a.m. on the 9th, the cupola of the courthouse collapsed, sending the great bell crashing down.[5]:148 Some witnesses reported hearing the sound from a mile (1.6 km) away.
As more buildings succumbed to the flames, a major contributing factor to the fire’s spread was a meteorological phenomenon known as a fire whirl.[7] As overheated air rises, it comes into contact with cooler air and begins to spin creating a tornado-like effect. These fire whirls are likely what drove flaming debris so high and so far. Such debris was blown across the main branch of the Chicago River to a railroad car carrying kerosene.[5]:152 The fire had jumped the river a second time and was now raging across the city’s north side.
Despite the fire spreading and growing rapidly, the city's firefighters continued to battle the blaze. A short time after the fire jumped the river, a burning piece of timber lodged on the roof of the city’s waterworks. Within minutes, the interior of the building was engulfed in flames and the building was destroyed. With it, the city’s water mains went dry and the city was helpless.[5]:152-3 The fire burned unchecked from building to building, block to block.
Finally, late into the evening of the 9th, it started to rain, but the fire had already started to burn itself out. The fire had spread to the sparsely populated areas of the north side, having consumed the densely populated areas thoroughly.[5]:158
Aftermath[edit]
Aftermath of the fire, corner of Dearborn and Monroe Streets, 1871
Once the fire had ended, the smoldering remains were still too hot for a survey of the damage to be completed for many days. Eventually, the city determined that the fire destroyed an area about 4 miles (6 km) long and averaging 3⁄4 mile (1 km) wide, encompassing an area of more than 2,000 acres (809 ha).[5]:159 Destroyed were more than 73 miles (117 km) of roads, 120 miles (190 km) of sidewalk, 2,000 lampposts, 17,500 buildings, and $222 million in property—about a third of the city's valuation (more than $4 billion in 2016 dollars[8]). Of the 300,000 inhabitants, 100,000 were left homeless. 120 bodies were recovered, but the death toll may have been as high as 300. The county coroner speculated that an accurate count was impossible, as some victims may have drowned or had been incinerated, leaving no remains.
In the days and weeks following the fire, monetary donations flowed into Chicago from around the country and abroad, along with donations of food, clothing, and other goods. These donations came from individuals, corporations, and cities. New York City gave $450,000 along with clothing and provisions, St. Louis gave $300,000, and the Common Council of London gave 1,000 guineas, as well as ₤7,000 from private donations.[9] Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Buffalo, all commercial rivals, donated hundreds and thousands of dollars. Milwaukee, along with other nearby cities, helped by sending fire-fighting equipment. Additionally, food, clothing and books were brought by train from all over the continent.[10] Mayor Mason placed the Chicago Relief and Aid Society in charge of the city’s relief efforts.[5]:162
Operating from the First Congregational Church, city officials and aldermen began taking steps to preserve order in Chicago. Price gouging was a key concern, and in one ordinance, the city set the price of bread at 8¢ for a 12-ounce (340 g) loaf.[11] Public buildings were opened as places of refuge, and saloons closed at 9 in the evening for the week following the fire. Many people who were left homeless after the incident were never able to get their normal lives back since all their personal papers and belongings burned in the conflagration.
The fire also led to questions about development in the United States. Due to Chicago’s rapid expansion at that time, the fire led to Americans reflecting on industrialization. Based on a religious point of view, some said that Americans should return to a more old-fashioned way of life, and that the fire was caused by people ignoring traditional morality. On the other hand, others believed that a lesson to be learned from the fire was that cities needed to improve their building techniques. Frederick Law Olmsted observed that poor building practices in Chicago were a problem:
"Chicago had a weakness for “big things,” and liked to think that it was outbuilding New York. It did a great deal of commercial advertising in its house-tops. The faults of construction as well as of art in its great showy buildings must have been numerous. Their walls were thin, and were overweighted with gross and coarse misornamentation."
Chicago Tribune editorial
Olmsted also believed that with brick walls, and disciplined firemen and police, the deaths and damage caused would have been much less.[12]
Almost immediately, the city began to rewrite its fire standards, spurred by the efforts of leading insurance executives, and fire-prevention reformers such as Arthur C. Ducat. Chicago soon developed one of the country's leading fire-fighting forces.
Business owners, and land speculators such as Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard, quickly set about rebuilding the city. The first load of lumber for rebuilding was delivered the day the last burning building was extinguished. By the World's Columbian Exposition 22 years later, Chicago hosted more than 21 million visitors. The Palmer House hotel burned to the ground in the fire 13 days after its grand opening. Its developer, Potter Palmer, secured a loan and rebuilt the hotel to higher standards across the street from the original, proclaiming it to be "The World's First Fireproof Building".
In 1956, the remaining structures on the original O'Leary property at 558 W. DeKoven Street were torn down for construction of the Chicago Fire Academy, a training facility for Chicago firefighters. A bronze sculpture of stylized flames, entitled Pillar of Fire by sculptor Egon Weiner, was erected on the point of origin in 1961.[13]
Panorama of Chicago after the 1871 Fire[edit]
Attributed to George N. Barnard
Rumors about the fire[edit]
1871 illustration from Harper's Magazine depicting Mrs. O'Leary milking the cow
Almost from the moment the fire broke out, various theories about its cause began to circulate.
The most popular and enduring legend maintains that the fire began in the O'Leary barn, as Mrs. O’Leary was milking her cow. The cow kicked over a lantern (or an oil lamp in some versions), setting fire to the barn. The O'Leary family denied this, stating that they were in bed before the fire started, but stories of the cow began to spread across the city. Catherine O'Leary seemed the perfect scapegoat: she was a poor, Irish Catholic immigrant. During the latter half of the 19th century, anti-Irish sentiment was strong throughout the United States and in Chicago. This was intensified as a result of the growing political power of the city's Irish population.[5]:442 This story was circulating in Chicago even before the flames had died out, and it was noted in the Chicago Tribune's first post-fire issue. In 1893 the reporter Michael Ahern retracted the "cow-and-lantern" story, admitting it was fabricated, but even his confession was unable to put the legend to rest.[14] Although the O'Learys were never officially charged with starting the fire, the story became so engrained in local lore that Chicago's city council officially exonerated them—and the cow—in 1997.[15]
Amateur historian Richard Bales has suggested the fire started when Daniel "Pegleg" Sullivan, who first reported the fire, ignited hay in the barn while trying to steal milk.[16] Part of Bales' evidence includes an account by Sullivan who claimed in an inquiry before the Fire Department of Chicago on November 25, 1871 that he saw the fire coming through the side of the barn and ran across DeKoven Street to free the animals from the barn, one of which included a cow owned by Sullivan's mother.[17] Bales' account does not have consensus. The Chicago Public Library staff criticized his account in their web page on the fire.[18] Despite this, the Chicago city council was convinced of Bales' argument and stated that the actions of Sullivan on that day should be scrutinized after the O'Learys were exonerated in 1997.[15][19]
Anthony DeBartolo reported evidence in the Chicago Tribune suggesting that Louis M. Cohn may have started the fire during a craps game.[20] According to Cohn, on the night of the fire, he was gambling in the O'Learys' barn with one of their sons and some other neighborhood boys. When Mrs. O'Leary came out to the barn to chase the gamblers away at around 9:00, they knocked over a lantern in their flight, although Cohn states that he paused long enough to scoop up the money. Following his death in 1942, Cohn bequeathed $35,000 which was assigned by his executors to the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The bequest was given to the school on September 28, 1944, along with his confession.
An alternative theory, first suggested in 1882 by Ignatius L. Donnelly in Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel, is that the fire was caused by a meteor shower. At a 2004 conference of the Aerospace Corporation and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, engineer and physicist Robert Wood suggested that the fire began when Biela's Comet broke up over the Midwest. That four large fires took place, all on the same day, all on the shores of Lake Michigan (see Related Events), suggests a common root cause. Eyewitnesses reported sighting spontaneous ignitions, lack of smoke, "balls of fire" falling from the sky, and blue flames. According to Wood, these accounts suggest that the fires were caused by the methane that is commonly found in comets.[21]
But as meteorites are not known to start or spread fires and are cool to the touch after reaching the ground, this theory has not found favor in the scientific community.[22][23] A common cause for the fires in the Midwest can be found in the fact that the area had suffered through a tinder-dry summer, so that winds from the front that moved in that evening were capable of generating rapidly expanding blazes from available ignition sources, which were plentiful in the region.[24][25] Methane-air mixtures become flammable only when the methane concentration exceeds 5%, at which point the mixtures also become explosive.[26][27] Methane gas is lighter than air and thus does not accumulate near the ground;[27] any localized pockets of methane in the open air would rapidly dissipate. Moreover, if a fragment of an icy comet were to strike the Earth, the most likely outcome, due to the low tensile strength of such bodies, would be for it to disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, leading to an air burst explosion analogous to that of the Tunguska event.[28]
Surviving structures[edit]
pre fire house in Chicago on Cleveland Avenue (photographed in 2016)
The following structures are the only structures from the burnt district still standing:
St. Ignatius College Prep
St. Michael's Church, Old Town
Chicago Water Tower
Chicago Avenue Pumping Station
Police Constable Bellinger's cottage at 2121 N. Hudson[29]
St. Michael's Church and the Pumping Station were both gutted in the fire, but their exteriors survived, and the buildings were rebuilt using the surviving walls. Additionally, though the inhabitable portions of the building were destroyed, the bell tower of St. James Cathedral survived the fire and was incorporated into the rebuilt church. The stones near the top of the tower are still blackened from the soot and smoke.
A couple of wooden cottages on North Cleveland Avenue also survived the blaze.[29]
Related events[edit]
On that hot, dry, and windy autumn day, three other major fires occurred along the shores of Lake Michigan at the same time as the Great Chicago Fire. Some 250 miles (400 km) to the north, the Peshtigo Fire consumed the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, along with a dozen other villages. It killed 1,200 to 2,500 people and charred approximately 1.5 million acres (6,000 km²). The Peshtigo Fire remains the deadliest in American history but the remoteness of the region meant it was little noticed at the time, due to the fact that one of the first things that burned were the telegraph lines to Green Bay.[30]
Across the lake to the east, the town of Holland, Michigan, and other nearby areas burned to the ground.[31] Some 100 miles (160 km) to the north of Holland, the lumbering community of Manistee also went up in flames[32] in what became known as The Great Michigan Fire.[31]
Farther east, along the shore of Lake Huron, the Port Huron Fire swept through Port Huron, Michigan and much of Michigan's "Thumb". On October 9, 1871, a fire swept through the city of Urbana, Illinois, 140 miles (230 km) south of Chicago, destroying portions of its downtown area.[33] Windsor, Ontario, likewise burned on October 12.[34]
The city of Singapore, Michigan, provided a large portion of the lumber to rebuild Chicago. As a result, the area was so heavily deforested that the land deteriorated into barren sand dunes and the town had to be abandoned.[35]
In popular culture[edit]
The University of Illinois at Chicago athletic teams are nicknamed the Flames, in commemoration of the Great Chicago Fire.[36]
Although set in Philadelphia, Theodore Dreiser's 1912 novel The Financier portrays the nationwide impact the 1871 Chicago fire had on the stock markets and the financial world.[citation needed]
The 1937 film In Old Chicago is centered on the fire, with a highly fictionalized portrayal of the O'Leary family as the main characters.[37]
It is alluded to with the 1967 unfinished instrumental "The Elements: Fire", intended for the unreleased The Beach Boys album Smile, and completed and released as "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" on the 2004 Brian Wilson solo album Brian Wilson Presents Smile.
In 1974, the Chicago Fire football team had played in the short-lived World Football League. Another Chicago Fire played in the American Football Association.
A key section of Richard C. Meredith's 1976 science fiction novel Run, Come See Jerusalem! depicts the Great Chicago Fire from the point of view of rival time-travelers from the future, whose struggle amidst the raging flames would impact the entire history of the world.[citation needed]
In the 1976 TV film Time Travelers, the protagonists travel back to shortly before the fire, trying to find the cure for a present-day infectious disease outbreak.
Events of Dana Fuller Ross's 1986 novel Illinois! occur around the Great Chicago Fire.[citation needed]
The 1987 Williams pinball "Fire!" was inspired by the Great Chicago Fire. A cow sound can be heard at the start of gameplay, alluding to Mrs. O'Leary's cow.
In the 1987 film Roxanne, the mayor of Chicago proposes to use a cow as the fire department mascot.
In the 1987 film Near Dark, one character is heard saying, "Hey Jesse, remember that fire we started in Chicago," hinting they were the culprits.
The 1996 novel The Great Fire is about the events.
The Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.
In the 1998 episode "Hot Time in the Old Town" of Early Edition, Gary is sent back to 1871 to prevent the fire.
The punk rock band Allister wrote a song called "The Legend of Pegleg Sullivan" for their 2005 album Before the Blackout; the lyrics are written assuming Daniel Sullivan started the fire.
In 2014, the city of Chicago and Redmoon Theater partnered to create The Great Chicago Fire Festival. Held on October 4, 2014, the event fell victim to technical difficulties as replicas of 1871 houses on floating barges in the Chicago River failed to ignite property due to electrical problems and heavy rain on the preceding days.
See also[edit]
Chicago portal
Dwight L. Moody – 19th-century evangelist whose church was burned down in the fire
Horatio Spafford – author of hymn "It Is Well With My Soul"
Ida Henrietta Hyde
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Further reading[edit]
Bales, Richard F. (2002). The Great Chicago Fire and the Myth of Mrs. O'Leary's Cow. Jefferson, NC.: McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1424-3.
Chicago and the Great Conflagration – Elias Colbert and Everett Chamberlin, 1871, 528 pp.
"Who Caused the Great Chicago Fire? A Possible Deathbed Confession" – by Anthony DeBartolo, Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1997 and "Odds Improve That a Hot Game of Craps in Mrs. O'Leary's Barn Touched Off Chicago Fire" – by Anthony DeBartolo, Chicago Tribune, March 3, 1998
"History of the Great Fires in Chicago and the West". – Rev. Edgar J. Goodspeed, D.D., 677 pp.
Morris, Roy, Jr., Sheridan: The Life and Wars of General Phil Sheridan, Crown Publishing, 1992, ISBN 0-517-58070-5.
"People & Events: The Great Fire of 1871". The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Website. Retrieved September 3, 2004.
The Great Conflagration – James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton, 1871, 458 pp.
Shaw, William B. (October 5, 1921). "The Chicago Fire – Fifty Years After". The Outlook. 129: 176–178. Retrieved 2009-07-30.
Smith, Carl (1995). Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullman. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-76416-8.
"Mrs. O'Leary's Comet: Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire" by Mel Waskin (Jan 1985)
External links[edit]
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Devon Bostick
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Devon Bostick
Bostick in 2016.
Born
(1991-11-13) November 13, 1991 (age 26)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation
Actor
Years active
1998–present
Devon Bostick (born November 13, 1991) is a Canadian actor best known for playing the lead role of Simon in the Atom Egoyan directed film Adoration, Brent in Saw VI, Rodrick Heffley in the first three Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies and Jasper Jordan on The CW show The 100 from 2014 to 2017.
Contents
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1 Life and career
2 Filmography
2.1 Film
2.2 Television
2.3 Music video
3 References
4 External links
Life and career[edit]
Bostick in 2008
Bostick was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] His mother, Stephanie Gorin, is a casting agent in Toronto,[2] who works in stage and screen, and his father, Joe Bostick, is an actor as well as a film fight coordinator. His maternal grandparents are English immigrants, and his father is of part Norwegian descent.[3][4][5] Devon began acting when in grade five. He is a graduate of the Etobicoke School of the Arts in Toronto.[6]
He has had roles in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, Flashpoint and in the film Citizen Duane,[7] and appeared in the series premiere of Rookie Blue. His film work has included roles in Godsend,[8] Fugitive Pieces and The Stone Angel.
In Adoration, he plays Simon, a boy who is being raised by his uncle (played by Scott Speedman) after his parents' death. He also appears in an online spoof trailer for a hoax movie called "Ice Fortress". He had roles in The Poet, a World War II drama starring Roy Scheider and Colm Feore, Saw VI as Brent and Assassin's Creed: Lineage as Ezio Auditore. Bostick also played Erica's deceased brother Leo in CBC Television's series Being Erica,[9] and Rodrick Heffley in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movies.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
2003 The Truth About the Head Boy
2004 Godsend Zachary Clark Wells
2005 Land of the Dead Brian
2006 King of Sorrow Low Man
2006 Aruba Mark
2006 Citizen Duane Maurie Balfour
2006 American Pie Presents The Naked Mile High School Student #4 Direct-to-video
2007 The Poet Guard #1
2007 Fugitive Pieces Ben – Teen
2007 The Stone Angel Young Marvin
2007 Saw IV Derek Scenes Cut[10]
2008 Adoration Simon
2008 The Dreaming Boy
2009 Survival of the Dead Boy
2009 Saw VI Brent
2010 Assassin's Creed: Lineage Ezio Auditore da Firenze Short film
2010 Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Heffley
2010 Verona Christopher Short film
2011 The Entitled Dean Taylor
2011 Hidden 3D Lucas
2011 The Sacrifice Mike Direct-to-video
2011 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules Rodrick Heffley
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
2012 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown
2012 Dead Before Dawn 3D Casper Galloway[11][12]
2012 A Dark Truth Renaldo
2013 The Art of the Steal Ponch
2014 Small Time Freddy Klein
2015 Regression Roy Gray
2015 Being Charlie Adam
2017 Okja Silver
Television[edit]
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1998 Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science Son 1 episode
2002–2003 Odyssey 5 Gothic Teen 2 episodes
2003 DC 9/11: Time of Crisis Fireman's son Television film
2003 Jake 2.0 Young Kid 1 episode
2004 1-800-Missing Zack 1 episode
2004 Hustle The Kid Television film
2005 Knights of the South Bronx Darren Television film
2006–
2007 Degrassi: The Next Generation Nic 3 episodes
2007 Stump Ryan TV series
2007 A Life Interrupted Young Bobby Television film
2007 The Altar Boy Gang Terry Television film
2008 Princess Older boy Television film
2008 Roxy Hunter and the Horrific Halloween Drew Television film
2009 The Good Germany Dale Mackay 1 episode
2009 Guns Boy #3 2 episodes
2009 The Border Ali Jabir 1 episode
2009 Being Erica Leo Strange 13 episodes
2010 Rookie Blue Martin Blentz 1 episode
2010 Flashpoint Paul 1 episode
2010 Haven Jimmy 1 episode
2011 She's the Mayor Doctor Jimmy 1 episode
2011 The Listener Bennie 1 episode
2013 Aim High Marcus Anderson Web series, 10 episodes
2014–2017 The 100 Jasper Jordan Main cast (Season 1–4)
Music video[edit]
Year
Song
Artist
Director
2015 Til It Happens to You Lady Gaga Catherine Hardwicke
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Lederman, Marsha (March 27, 2011). "Devon Bostick's not really evil – he just acts that way". The Globe and Mail. Toronto.
Jump up ^ Ouzounian, Richard (March 25, 2011). "Devon Bostick: Not just another wimpy kid". The Star. Toronto.
Jump up ^ "Twitter". Mobile.twitter.com. March 1, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
Jump up ^ Devon Bostick. IMDb
Jump up ^ Martha's Nautical News. November 2007
Jump up ^ Lacey, Liam (May 24, 2008). "Egoyan brings post-9/11 vision to Cannes". Toronto: The Globe and Mail. Retrieved May 25, 2008.
Jump up ^ Dinoff, Dustin (September 4, 2006). "Contemporary World Cinema: Film Diary: Citizen Duane". Playback. p. 13.
Jump up ^ Leydon, Joe (May 3, 2004). "Godsend". Variety. p. 62.
Jump up ^ Writer, Staff (February 18, 2009). "Being Erica". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
Jump up ^ Caims, Bryan (May 19, 2009). "EXCLUSIVE! We Chat With 'Saw VI' Star Devon Bostick". FEARnet. Horror Entertainment. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Official Cast Reveal number 2 | Dead Before Dawn". Deadbeforedawnthemovie.com. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
Jump up ^ Etan Vlessing (June 28, 2011). "Bostick, Sutherland to star in Dead Before Dawn » Playback". Playbackonline.ca. Retrieved November 21, 2012.
External links[edit]
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Devon Bostick on Twitter
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VIAF: 121664154
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