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Funeral for Eastland Disaster Victims
Old newspaper photo showing the Steamship Eastland after capsizing in
Chicago, Illinois, in July 1915. Photo caption from the newspaper:
"Mourners by Thousands at Eastland Disaster Victims' Funeral....On Wednesday
last, Cicero, a suburb of Chicago, were the General Electric company's plant is
located, was a village of the dead. All day long funeral corteges wended
their slow way from the stricken homes to crowded churches to cemeteries.
And all day the rain fell on mourners by thousands whose grief made them forget
the discomfort."
Read more about the
Eastland Disaster, Jul 1915 at
gendisasters.com
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more postcards & photos of the Eastland Disaster
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