One of the greatest inland waterways disasters in the history of the United States took place in the Chicago River, Chicago, Ill., July 24, 1915, when the steamship Eastland capsized with a loss ...

In the case of the Eastland disaster, it also swallowed people ... Michael Smith plays both guitar and the stiff captain of the ship) are powerful indeed. The singing, from cast members like ...

Two men point to the speed controls on the SS Eastland after the ship was righted following the disaster in August 1915. A stern side view of the SS Eastland shows the decks raised out of the ...

It happened in plain view—at 7:30 AM in the middle of a city—but the SS Eastland disaster has long been ... but before it even left port the ship spilled onto its side. Though the ship was ...

CHICAGO -- Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River. The first-known footage of the Eastland ...

The Eastland ship being righted after the Eastland Disaster on the Chicago River, 1915. The Eastland was one of five boats carrying Western Electric workers and their families and friends across ...

(CBS)-- 2015 will be a year of remembering the Eastland disaster, which killed more than 800 people on the Chicago River near Clark Street in 1915. The anniversary, and the effort to revitalize ...

The deadliest tragedy in Chicago history, the Eastland rollover seemed to unfold almost in slow motion. Testimony heard by a coroner’s jury convened the day of the disaster showed the ship ...

Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River. The first-known footage of the Eastland disaster was ...

A graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago came across the first-known film footage of the Eastland disaster while ... people who died when the ship rolled over in the river ...

The ship, docked at the Clark Street Bridge ... The four books highlighted include the following: "The Eastland Disaster" by Ted Wachholz (photo collection) "Capsized!" by Patricia Sutton ...

Film clips have surfaced of a 1915 disaster that left 844 people dead when a ship headed to a company picnic capsized in the Chicago River. The first-known footage of the Eastland disaster was ...