News of the disaster spread around the county. Bodies of the victims of the General Slocum are laid out on nearby ground. (AP) "The public was appropriately horrified," Shapley says. "People were ...

Paul Hashagen details what happened when a Sunday-school picnic excursion turned into a flame- and water-filled nightmare. New York has been the site of more than 2,000 shipwrecks and marine ...

The terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001 would replace the General Slocum fire as New York City’s worst single-day disaster. WINFIELD: The Knicks finally learned how to use Karl-Anthony Towns ...

The deadliest disaster in New York before 9/11 killed many women and children and ultimately erased a German community from the map of Manhattan. The SS General Slocum. Photo: Wikipedia It was ...

11, 2001 -- the worst disaster in New York City's history. A century ago today, a steamship called the General Slocum left the piers at East 3rd Street. The boat was filled with more than 1,300 ...

And every year, they make sure New Yorkers remember the General Slocum disaster. “If you forget your heritage and your history, you have nothing left,” said Dan Austin Jr. Woman in Brooklyn ...

The General Slocum is far back in the mist of history ... came to the ceremony to honor her great grandmother, who died in the disaster and is buried at All Faiths. She wrote her master’s ...

Until the events of September 11th, the sinking of the General Slocum disaster was responsible for the largest loss of life in New York City. The tragedy forever changed the composition of the ...

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When she died at age 100 in 2004, she was believed to be the last survivor of the General Slocum ferry disaster. On June 15, 1904, the paddle-wheel steamer General Slocum, chartered by St. Mark's ...

The fiery demise of the General Slocum steamboat was the deadliest peacetime disaster in maritime history. Here’s what happened. ON June 15, 1904, more than 1,000 German immigrants, mostly women ...