On this day 110 years ago, a ship in the Chicago River between LaSalle Drive and Clark Street was loaded with more than 2,500 passengers — many of them Western Electric Co. employees and their ...
The S.S. Eastland rolled over on its side in the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, loaded with 2,500 people bound for a picnic across Lake Michigan to Michigan City, Ind. Passengers were employees of ...
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The American Tragedy No One Remembers
The fate of the SS Eastland - and the hundreds of people who lost their lives that day in 1915 - has fallen out of our collective consciousness. That's odd, considering it's one of the worst maritime ...
CHICAGO (AP) — A memorial has been dedicated to victims of the Eastland Disaster in a cemetery on Chicago's Northwest Side, nearly a century after 844 people died when the ship capsized on the Chicago ...
CHICAGO (AP) | It was intended as a festive day out for Western Electric Co. workers and their families — an excursion across Lake Michigan from Chicago to a park in Michigan City, Indiana. It ended ...
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