Disaster · 1904

The 1904 Disaster New York Forgot: The General Slocum

A steamboat is on fire in the middle of the river, in plain sight of the city. The life jackets on board are filled with cork and scraps of iron — so when the children put them on and jump, they sink. It's the morning of June the fifteenth, 1904, in New York.

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