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THE EASTLAND DISASTER

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

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  1. THE EASTLAND DISASTER One Passenger Too Many?

  2. THE EASTLAND DISASTER Ted Wachholz Executive Director Eastland Disaster Historical Society

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. THE EASTLAND DISASTER S.S. Eastland 1903 – 1915

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  8. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1903 – 1906

  9. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1907 – 1913

  10. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 1914 – 1915

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  14. 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

  15. THE EASTLAND DISASTER WHAT DID NOT HAPPEN

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  19. THE EASTLAND DISASTER WHAT IT IS Chicago’s greatest tragedy Great Lakes’ greatest tragedy

  20. THE EASTLAND DISASTER AN EVENT UNLIKE ANY OTHER

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  38. THE EASTLAND DISASTER A TRAGEDY UNLIKE ANY OTHER

  39. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 844 victims, 2 crew

  40. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 70% under age 25

  41. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 58 infants and children

  42. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 228 teenagers

  43. THE EASTLAND DISASTER Average age 23

  44. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 19 families left parentless

  45. THE EASTLAND DISASTER 22 entire families

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