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The Eastland: The Forgotten Story of Chicago's Deadliest Day

The Eastland: The Forgotten Story of Chicago's Deadliest Day

W. Cole, Nathan

Paperback

Series: Forgotten Disasters, Book 4

Boating20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN13: 9798188748104
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
July 24, 1915. A ship full of picnickers rolls over at the dock - and never leaves Chicago.

The excursion steamer Eastland, chartered for a Western Electric employee outing, capsized in the Chicago River in about twenty feet of water while still tied to the wharf. In minutes, 844 people were dead - more than the Titanic's American toll, most of them young factory workers in their Sunday best. Inside you'll find:

  • The tender ship with a reputation for listing, and the debate over the lifeboats added after the Titanic
  • The twenty-eight minutes from a laughing crowd to a mass grave
  • The volunteers, welders, and divers who fought to reach the trapped
  • The armory morgue, the 22 families erased, and the trials that ended with no one to blame
  • The ship's strange afterlife as the naval vessel USS Wilmette
Drawn from the historical record and modern scholarship, The Eastland restores Chicago's deadliest day, hour by documented hour.

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