Dozens gathered Saturday at All Faiths Cemetery in Queens to honor the more than 1,000 people who died in the General Slocum steamboat disaster on June 15, 1904. The passenger steamer was packed with ...

Paul Hashagen details what happened when a Sunday-school picnic excursion turned into a flame- and water-filled nightmare. New York has been the site of more than 2,000 shipwrecks and marine accidents ...

On this day, June 15, in 1904, more than 1,000 people died when the steamboat General Slocum caught fire in the East River in New York. The boat was a paddle steamer built in 1891. At the time of the ...

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The centennial of the General Slocum disaster provides an opportunity to ask a probing question: how did a disaster which claimed the lives of 1,021 people in the nation's largest metropolis become an ...

In this epic but sprightly history, journalist and critic Pinkham (Black Square) explores the central role forests have played in the Russian cultural imagination. Noting that Continue reading » True ...

On this day, Dec. 19, in 1912, William H. Van Schaick, captain of the General Slocum, which caught fire and sank, killing 1,021 people, was pardoned by President Taft after three and a half years in ...

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