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  2. PS General Slocum - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Adella Wotherspoon - Wikipedia

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    Her siblings Anna C. Liebenow Jr. (1901–1904) and Helen Liebenow (1898–1904) died in the fire on the PS General Slocum. Helen's body was never identified and is presumed buried in a mass grave. Two cousins and two aunts also perished in the fire. One of the relatives who died was Martha Liebenow (1875–1904) of 404 5th Street in Manhattan. [1]

  4. Henry Warner Slocum - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Rose Pitonof - Wikipedia

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    The General Slocum tragedy of June 15, 1904, in which 1021 passengers died trying to save themselves from a burning boat that was banked in seven feet of water less than 20 feet from shore, was a heartbreaking illustration of this situation.

  6. Wikipedia : Votes for undeletion/List of General Slocum victims

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    As for context, here was the intro to the article: "The General Slocum was a steamship that burned in the East River in New York City on June 15, 1904. Over 1,000 people died in the tragedy, making it New York City's worst loss-of-life disaster until the September 11, 2001 attacks." A full article on the General Slocum disaster would be fine.

  7. Mary McCann - Wikipedia

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    In June 1904, McCann was a teenager recovering from measles and scarlet fever, [3] when she witnessed the fire aboard the PS General Slocum from the hospital on North Brother Island. McCann, reportedly a strong swimmer, [1] waded into the East River and helped passengers to safety, including as many as nine children. [4]

  8. Catherine Uhlmyer - Wikipedia

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    Catherine Uhlmyer Connelly (April 4, 1893 – October 17, 2002) was the second-to-last, and the longest-lived survivor of the General Slocum fire of June 15, 1904. Biography [ edit ]

  9. Fort Slocum - Wikipedia

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    Fort Slocum, New York was a US military post which occupied Davids Island in the western end of Long Island Sound in the city of New Rochelle, New York, from 1867 to 1965. The fort was named for Major General Henry W. Slocum , a Union corps commander in the American Civil War .