More than 800 others didn’t make it out alive. It happened in plain view—at 7:30 AM in the middle of a city—but the SS Eastland disaster has long been unfathomable. How did a 260-foot-long ...

To view a digital graphic novel of the disaster, click here. In this photo, a victim is carried up the SS Eastland as the steamship lies on its side in the Chicago River after slowly rolling over ...

archival footage of the disaster was accidentally discovered recently by a graduate student. The clips are Dutch newsreels describing how he SS Eastland, which was carrying 2,500 people ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland was parked along the ... Numerous makeshift morgues were set up after the Eastland disaster, and one of them was in the building.

Small boats attempt to rescue survivors gathered on the exposed side of the excursion boat SS Eastland which ... Victims of the Eastland Ship Disaster in Chicago. Photograph, 1915.

Almost a century on, footage has surfaced of a freak boating disaster that killed 844 people traveling to a company picnic in Chicago. On the morning of July 24, 1915 the SS Eastland capsized ...

Ashlee Rezin/for Sun-Times Media Share Follow @csteditorials The SS Eastland disaster, in which more people died than in any other single event in Chicago history, has receded so far into memory ...

moving film clips of the disaster and rescue attempts recently surfaced. Employees of Western Electric Co. and their families, about 2,500 in total, had boarded the SS Eastland for a trip to ...

On July 24, 1915, more than 800 people died in Chicago's deadliest disaster when the SS Eastland rolled onto its side in the Chicago River, only 20 feet from shore. On July 24, 1915, more than 800 ...

The SS Eastland, which was carrying 2,500 people ... Nichols posted links to the clips on the Facebook page of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society, which later put them on its website.

The SS Eastland was loaded with employees from Chicago ... east of Chicago. The July 24, 1915, disaster killed 844 people, making it the deadliest shipwreck on the Great Lakes.