General Slocum Disaster
The General Slocum (variously called SS General Slocum or PS General Slocum) was an excursion boat that caught fire and sank on the East River of New York City on June 15, 1904 with over 1,300 people on board.[1] The passengers were mostly women and children who were on a picnic outing from St. Mark's German Lutheran Church in New York City. Many of the crew and passengers were burned to death. Others drowned after jumping into the river to escape the flames. [2]
WikiTree category PS General Slocum Boat Disaster, New York, New York, 1904 contains profiles of some of the victims and survivors of this maritime disaster.
Sources
- ↑ Valerie Wingfield of the New York Public Library cited a figure of 1,358 passengers, plus crew, but most accounts indicate that there was no precise count of the passengers. According to Wingfield, only 321 passengers survived.
- ↑ Maggie Blanck, General Slocum Disaster, June 15, 1904.
- Blanck, Maggie. General Slocum Disaster, June 15, 1904. This source includes extensive information about many of the individual victims.
- Wingfield, Valerie. The General Slocum Disaster of June 15, 1904. New York Public Library, June 13, 2011.
- Wikipedia:PS_General_Slocum
