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Show GREAT LOSS OF LIFE WHEN BOAT FILLED TO '"' " EXCURSIONISTS CAPSIZED IN CHICAGO RIVER f. '&J$ -vP , j 'v ' 5-'"' ,-V , .-'''M-$"' 1-313-1 i.-fm '..&; .," y. cA. .. ,T .'&tc9K THE Ef)STLAND Photo by American Press Association. TIiousiimIs watched the search for bodies following the capsizing of thestoniner Enstlnnd with moro thnn 2,000 Inxsi'iiRern iiboaul In tlio Chlengo river. Early estimates of the dead were between 1!00 nnd 000. Tho Enstlnnd wns crowded with employees of the Western Electric company bound for n picnic nt Michigan City, Ind. There were fifteen bo.Uloids of the picnickers, nil In holiday nttlre, crowding the steamer doekn, nnd the Eastland win Just swinging nwny from the (lock nt Clark and Wells street Into tho river and starting for Lake Michigan. Without With-out apparent muse the steamer careei.cd toward the noith mid capsized. Hundreds of women nnd children on tho decks weie tumbkd Into the water, while It Is believed Unit several hundred who wero below decks had no cliauco to escape. |