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Language: en
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
A pictorial chronicle of the events of July 24, 1915, when the steamship Eastland capsized and sank in the port of Chicago, killing over eight hundred people.
Language: en
Pages: 396
Pages: 396
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
An account of the 1915 capsizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago River, an accident that killed more than eight hundred people, details the role of safet
Language: en
Pages: 128
Pages: 128
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Citadel Press
At once riveting and poignant, The Sinking of the Eastland brings to life a bygone era that yielded one of the most significant American disasters of the last c
Language: en
Pages: 333
Pages: 333
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-07 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland,