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2008 – The General Slocum disaster plays a prominent role in Richard Crabbe's novel Hell's Gate. [citation needed] 2009 – The General Slocum tragedy is described in detail in Glenn Stout's 2009 biography of Gertrude Ederle, Young Woman and the Sea. Stout uses the incident, in which many women and young children drowned, to help explain the ...
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General Slocum – The paddle steamer caught fire and sank in New York City's East River on 15 June. 1,029 people were killed, [14] making it New York City's greatest loss of life until the September 11 attacks.
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Henry Warner Slocum Sr. (September 24, 1827 – April 14, 1894), was a Union general during the American Civil War and later served in the United States House of Representatives from New York.
A steamboat on fire: General Slocum, a New York City sidewheeler, still burning after a fire that killed more than 1,000 people. A great danger to all wooden boats was fire. One of the worst disasters in all shipping history was the fire in New York harbor of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, in
The victims of the 1904 fire on the steamboat General Slocum—which caused around 1,000 fatalities—are memorialized at the cemetery, where 61 unknown victims were buried. [13] PS General Slocum steamboat fire mass memorial – commemorates the 1,021 victims of a 1904 disaster, 61 of whom are buried at the cemetery [13]