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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 ...
O'Donnell, Edward T. Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat "General Slocum". New York: Broadway Books, 2003. ISBN 0-7679-0906-2. Pfanz, Harry W. Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0807849965. Sherman, William T. The Memoirs of General William T. Sherman.
In 1904, The Ladies' Aid Society (Frauenhilfsverein) chartered the General Slocum steamboat for their summer outing on the East River. The boat caught fire and over 1000 parishioners perished in one of the worst disasters in the city's history.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ]
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
1904 – Steamship General Slocum in New York City — 1,021 deaths; 1906 – Hankow fire in Hong Kong — 130+ deaths (14 October) [1] [better source needed] 1908 – Sardinia in Malta — at least 118 deaths [2] [3] 1913 – Volturno burned at sea, later scuttled — 135 deaths