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THE EASTLAND DISASTER. One Passenger Too Many?. THE EASTLAND DISASTER. Ted Wachholz Executive Director. Eastland Disaster Historical Society. THE EASTLAND DISASTER. CDR Eric Christensen Traveling Senior Marine Inspector Office of Quality Assurance and Traveling Inspectors
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THE EASTLAND DISASTER One Passenger Too Many?
THE EASTLAND DISASTER Ted Wachholz Executive Director Eastland Disaster Historical Society
THE EASTLAND DISASTER CDR Eric Christensen Traveling Senior Marine Inspector Office of Quality Assurance and Traveling Inspectors 202-372-1193 eric.p.christensen@uscg.mil
THE EASTLAND DISASTER THIS AFTERNOON • Six degrees of separation • Oprah Winfrey • Christopher Reeve • Terrorist attacks 9/11 • Chicago rock group Styx • Chicago Cubs • Chicago Bears • Great Chicago Fire • The Titanic
THE EASTLAND DISASTER S.S. Eastland 1903 – 1915
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1903 – 1906
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1907 – 1913
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1914 – 1915
THE EASTLAND DISASTER • Saturday July 24, 1915 • 5th annual employee picnic • Western Electric • Hawthorne Works • Cicero, IL • Over 7,000 picnickers • Bound for Michigan City, IN • Chicago River, Clark Street • Over 2,500 passengers/crew • 844 fatalities
THE EASTLAND DISASTER WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN
THE EASTLAND DISASTER WHAT IT IS Chicago’s greatest tragedy Great Lakes’ greatest tragedy
THE EASTLAND DISASTER AN EVENT UNLIKE ANY OTHER
THE EASTLAND DISASTER A TRAGEDY UNLIKE ANY OTHER
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 844 victims, 2 crew
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 70% under age 25
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 58 infants and children
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 228 teenagers
THE EASTLAND DISASTER Average age 23
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 19 families left parentless
THE EASTLAND DISASTER 22 entire families