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 ...

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 ...

The S.S. Eastland started to sway in the harbor, a sign of impending doom. "Unfortunately there were a lot of design flaws when they did build the Eastland. In over 12 years it went from a tender ...

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Borghild "Bobbie" Aanstad was nearing her 14th birthday when she boarded the SS Eastland with her mother, sister and uncle on a July morning nearly 97 years ago. It was to be a day of fun for men ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the greatest inland waterways disasters in the history of the United States took place in the Chicago River, Chicago, Ill., July 24, 1915, when the steamship Eastland capsized with a loss ...

but rather on the Chicago River as a passenger boat named the SS Eastland prepared for a trip across Lake Michigan. (July 21, 2024) New video of unidentified flying object recorded near California ...

On July 24, 1915 the Great Lakes steamer SS Eastland capsized in the Chicago River, taking 844 lives. Raven Founder Suzanne Ross joins Center for History President Alberta Adamson to discuss this ...

On July 24, 1915, more than 800 people died in Chicago's deadliest disaster when the SS Eastland rolled onto its side in the Chicago River, only 20 feet from shore. On July 24, 1915, more than 800 ...