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The General Slocum disaster memorial in Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, which was once part of the Little Germany neighborhood Historical marker in Astoria Park, Queens, overlooking the Hell Gate section of the East River, past where the burning ship began to sink General Slocum token in the collection at the Mariners' Museum in ...
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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. [15] 1,029 1912 Japan: Kiche Maru – Sank in a typhoon in the Pacific on 22 September. It is estimated that more than 1,000 persons ...
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Adella Liebenow Wotherspoon (November 28, 1903 – January 26, 2004) was the youngest and last living survivor of the General Slocum ship disaster of June 15, 1904.
A steamboat on fire: General Slocum, a New York City sidewheeler, still burning after a fire that killed more than 1,000 people. Steamboats on the Columbia River system were wrecked for many reasons, including striking rocks or logs ("snags"), fire, boiler explosion, or puncture or crushing by ice. Sometimes boats could be salvaged, and ...
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Mary Ann McCann (1890 – 1966) was an Irish-born American woman who was awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal, for rescuing passengers, including up to nine children, from the 1904 PS General Slocum steamboat fire in New York City.