The PS General Slocum was a sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number...
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Little Germany, Manhattan (category PS General Slocum)
decline of Germans among the population was accelerated in 1904, when the General Slocum disaster decimated the social core of the population with the loss of...
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Adella Wotherspoon (category PS General Slocum)
(1901–1904) and Helen Liebenow (1898–1904) died in the fire on the PS General Slocum. Helen's body was never identified and is presumed buried in a mass...
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Slocum may refer to: Bill Slocum, American politician Craig Slocum, American actor Frances Slocum, adopted member of the Miami tribe Frederick Slocum...
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Catherine Uhlmyer (category PS General Slocum)
2002) was the second-to-last, and the longest-lived survivor of the General Slocum fire of June 15, 1904. She was born as Catherine Uhlmyer in Manhattan...
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rescuing passengers, including up to nine children, from the 1904 PS General Slocum steamboat fire in New York City. Mary McCann immigrated to the United...
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North and South Brother Islands (New York City) (category PS General Slocum)
tuberculosis vaccine after 1945. The island was the site of the wreck of the General Slocum, a steamship that burned on June 15, 1904: 1,021 people died either...
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2022, the case was still making its way through the legal process. PS General Slocum steamboat fire mass memorial – commemorates the 1,021 victims of a...
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Schrank's statements. Emily died at the age of 19 in a fire on the PS General Slocum on June 15, 1904,: 7, 8 after which Schrank identified Ziegler's...
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clearing of the channel, the building of Hell Gate Bridge, and the PS General Slocum steamship disaster. Under Hellgate Bridge (1999), directed by Michael...
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