More than 800 others didn’t make it out alive. It happened in plain view—at 7:30 AM in the middle of a city—but the SS Eastland disaster has long been unfathomable. How did a 260-foot-long ...

To view a digital graphic novel of the disaster, click here. In this photo, a victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after slowly rolling over ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland was parked along the Chicago River downtown. The steamship was supposed to be carrying passengers to an annual picnic for the Western Electric ...

The SS Eastland capsized nearly 100 years ago, yet the disaster continues to resonate deeply with people in Chicago and across the nation. History can be found in old newspapers and in textbooks ...

Of the 844 lives lost when the SS Eastland rolled over in the Chicago River on July 24, 1915, the “little feller,” as police called him, came to be the nameless face of the tragedy in the days ...

844 people died in the tragedy, including 22 entire families. Mr. McCarthy, author of Ashes Under Water: The SS Eastland And the Shipwreck that Shook America, argued that a faulty water ballast ...

The clips are Dutch newsreels describing how he SS Eastland, which was carrying 2,500 people, turned onto its side in the Chicago River in July 1915. The Eastland ship being righted after the ...

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