S.S. Eastland

S.S. Eastland is a passenger ship from Chicago wrote used for tourist tours. On July 24, 1915 this ship along with two other steamers "The Theodore Roosevelt" and "The Petoskey", hired to transport the employees of Chicago's Western Electric Company on vacation to Michigan City - Indiana. For employees this is the moment they were waiting in great because most of these workers will not be able to vacation at their own expense (pd time America was hit by the economic recession). S.S. Eastland rupaya carry too much on the lifeboats on board enacting this ship became unstable.

At 6:30 that morning the passengers began to climb the ship and at 7:10 o'clock the ship was filled with 2752 passengers (maximum capacity). When the employees were starting to fall into the lower deck of the ship at 7:28 o'clock suddenly tilted to the left and then rolled on its side and sank as deep as 20 feet below the surface of the water. Though not too deep and immediate rescue operation conducted by the ship "Kenosha" wrote rushed docked in the stomach SS Eastland but the bolt from a sudden and a lot of passer-stricken like a piano heavy furniture, bookshelves and tables made of hundreds of people trapped under the water. 841 passengers and 4 crew died in this tragedy. Most of the victims were women and children.