Show STEAMER CAPSIZES j 1 IN CHICAGO RIVER THOUSAND LIVE LIVES LOST WHEN CROWDED VESSEL MEETS METS WITH ACCIDENT More Than Twenty five Hundred Men Women and Children Thrown Into Water In In Dense Ma Mass s While Many D Drown own in Cabins Chicago A A thousand persons lost their lives in the Chi Chicago ago on July 24 by the capsizing of the excursion filon slon steamer Eastland while warping I from its wharf with more mort than 2500 employees of the Western Electric i company and their relatives and friends on board bound for a pleasure pleasure pleas pleas- pleasure ure trip a across ross Lake Michigan Many were were drowned in the cabins The The bodies of v victims c ims had been recovered Monday morning after after forty forty forty for for- ty hours of searching by divers round around the steel hulk still sUll l lying ing onte on JtB te tB side half halL submerged Fully men mend men women and chil chU- dren ren came down to the river wharf to oard card the boats for a a. holiday ex cur cur- ion sion The lake steamer steamer Eastland badeen had bad hadeen been een loaded a tug was hitched to the 11 fated vessel ropes were were ordered ast off ott and the engines began to um The Eastland had not bud budged d. d however Instead the heavily laden ship sideways leaning leinIng first first to- to Vard ard the river bank The lurch was jo Q startling that many passengers paSsengers' rs Joined the large concourse already onte on he other side of the decks te The ship then heeled back It slowly but st steadily towards s l FB s left side Children hudren clutched the kIrts of nf mothe mothers s Inri d o t tn i Section I IV om 1 om m falling The whole cargo was was tam tan tain a Iu bli towards the falling side of on the dolla dollar e ship Water began to to enter enter low low- Portholes Portholes' and the ropes snapped vr inn V section Vt the piles to which the ye vessel w ws s used d in ill n con ed Fund Two Screams from passengers attracted Passed an anjie anie e attention of fellow excursionists 1 7 day Df Jn Jn t the e wharf har awaiting the next ext CHRI er and picnickers picnickers' boa on lined the edge of the embank embank- Attest sent sent- ent reaching out oCt he helplessly less y towards r l' l Rea IJ P ton e wavering steamer teamer For nearly five minutes minutes' the ship L Filed med before it fIn finall lIy r dived under r P swift current rent of the river which ring ng to the drainage canal system I ws ws from the lake During the I State of Ut turning of the ship with its I Ephraim irgo of humanity lifeboats chairs I Peter n Od l other loose I appurtenances on the theer theer I er of slipped down the loping Doping floors oration in iu gushing the passengers toward toward the hereby w waters Caters I I full u U t true rue aThen there was a Plunge with a original gh of air escaping from the hold with crying of ch children dren and passed an passed rieks of w women men and the ship P Was Council of i l the ae bottom of the tte rIver c c casting sting C i of its tg passengers Into the 7 day dy of Jiter tel Many sank entangled with In thing and bundles bundle and did not rise unto set int scores came ame to the surface giving seal river the appearance of ofa a crowded day of thing beach Many sei seized ed floating S Seal al and other objects rhose Those on shore threw out ropes and in those who could hold these 1 p lines Employees Employee of or commission n 8 s with h houses ses along the river PL 1 rew crates chicken coops and other Cholera table Stable things into the current but butI I 1st let 1st of these were ere swept away by the I I IT pam am pats ats ts were put out tU tugs rushed to toe be e Scene icene with shrieking whistles and m many men snatched off their coats and the river to aid the he drown drown- ing With With- thousands of ot spectators ready to aid and the wharf within within I grasp hundreds went despite I every very effort at rescue i One mother grasped her two chit chil dren in her arms as she slipped from rom the steamer into the water One child was torn from her but she and the theother theother theother other were saved Fathers we were drowned at after r aiding their wives wIves wIves' and anh children to safety Stories of heroism were almost as all numerous as the number Dumber of persons on the s scene ene immediately after the ter Divers were placed at work as soon as possible and as the divers gained entrance to the hull hun the scene of distress distress distress dis dis- dis- dis tress moved for the time being from the river to the improvised morgues Warehouses of wh wholesale compa companies along the river were thrown open and bodies were laid in n rows on the floors Scores of persons taken from the Water water wa Wa- ter were severely injured and these were taken to the hospital built in memory of the women children and a few men who were burned and crushed to death In inthe the Iroquois theatre New Years Year's eve several several sev eral years years' ago Efforts to resuscitate those taken from the river were unsuccessful except ex- ex in two or three instances It was also said that many of those l injured would die |