Download or read book New York Steamboat Horror written by H. D. Northrop and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The General Slocum was a passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn. She operated in the New York City area as an excursion steamer. On June 15, 1904, the General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. At the time of the accident she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church (German Americans from Little Germany, Manhattan) to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area's worst disaster in terms of loss of life and the worst maritime disaster in the city's history. This fully illustrated book contains many rare pictures and photographs of the accident and the aftermath.
Download or read book New York s Awful Steamboat Horror written by H. D. Northrop and published by Books Are Back Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the "General Slocum," the New York excursion steamer which burned on June 15, 1904 with fatalities rivalling those of the "Titanic" and "Lusitania." She started up the East River from her pier at Third St. Manhattan in glorious weather with children shouting and a band playing. Within an hour or so, she was a smoldering wreck with rescuers struggling to save the few they could. Here is the whole report of tragedy, heroism, and guilt. Over 40 pages of startling and heart-rending contemporary pictures Also covered are other fires including that of Chicago's Iroquois Theatre. Expanded reproduction of the rare original volume.
Download or read book New York s Awful Steamboat Horror written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York s Awful Steamboat Horror written by H[enry] D[avenport] 1836- Northrop and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the tragic events of the explosion and fire on board the steamboat Henry Clay in 1852, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of New York City's waterways. Through eye-witness accounts and investigative reporting, the author provides a chilling glimpse into the horror and chaos that took place that fateful day. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book NEW YORKS AWFUL STEAMBOAT HORR written by H[enry] D[avenport] 1836 Northrop and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book New York s awful steamboat horror written by H. D. Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York s Awful Steamboat Horror written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book New York s Awful Steamboat Horror written by H. D. Northrop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York's Awful Steamboat Horror: Hundreds of Women and Children Drowned and Burned to Death There was a noise like an explosion down in the steamer's hull, and red starry loads of sparks and smoke and ames ew up, and the greater part of the super structure plunged forward into the ames. How many hundreds of lives were snuffed out at that instant nobody will ever know. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
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Download or read book New York s Awful Excursion Boat Horror written by John Wesley Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York s Awful Excursion Boat Horror written by John Wesley Hanson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New York's Awful Excursion Boat Horror: Told by Survivors and Rescuers One beautiful day in June an excursion steamer, with twelve hundred Christian souls on board, set forth upon a pleasure trip. The boat was gay with multi-colored bunting; the happy voices of care-free women rang across the dancing waters; happy children were romping over the decks and - as if in mockery of the predestined catastrophe that was to follow - the band was playing a sacred hymn, Our God Is a Mighty Fortress. Then the brutal hand of Fate swept the picture from the canvas and in its place supplied a fiendish nightmare vision of horrid anguish and frantic terror. No artist, unless he dipped his brush in the colors of hell, could portray the awful scene of a majestic vessel, wrapped in great sheets of devouring flame, speeding to a haven of refuge, while the grim helmsman Death wrestled for suprem acy with the heroic captain at the wheel. And it would need the genius of a Dante to word-paint the dreadful spec tacle of helpless children roasted alive before their mother's eyes or swept by fear-crazed hundreds over the burning rails of the boat into the hungry jaws of the devouring tide - of gentle women and feeble old men crushed beneath the falling timbers of the decks or hurled to a swifter and, possibly, less terrible death, in the rushing waters of the river. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book NEW YORK S AWFUL EXCURSION BOAT HORROR written by JOHN WESLEY. HANSON and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ship Ablaze written by Ed O'Donnell and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one of the greatest tragedies in New York history On June 15, 1904, the steamship General Slocum was heading from Manhattan to Long Island Sound when a fire erupted in one of the storage rooms. Faced with an untrained crew, crumbling life jackets, and inaccessible lifeboats, hundreds of terrified passengers--few of which were experienced swimmers--fled into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, more than 1000 people had perished. It was New York’s deadliest tragedy prior to September 11, 2001. The only book available on this compelling chapter in the city’s history, Ship Ablaze draws on firsthand accounts to examine why the death toll was so high, how the city responded, and why this event failed to achieve the infamy of the Titanic’s 1912 demise or the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Masterfully capturing both the horror of the event and heroism of men, women, and children aboard the ship as the inferno spread, historian Edward T. O’Donnell brings to life a bygone community while honoring the victims of that forgotten day.
Download or read book Ship Ablaze written by Edward T. O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were few experienced swimmers among over 1,300 Lower East Side residents who boarded the "General Slocum" on June 15, 1904. It shouldn't have mattered, since the steamship was chartered only for a languid excursion from Manhattan to Long Island Sound. But a fire erupted minutes into the trip, forcing hundreds of terrified passengers into the water. By the time the captain found a safe shore for landing, 1,021 had perished. "Ship Ablaze" draws on firsthand accounts to examine why the death toll was so high and how the city responded. Masterfully capturing both the horror of the event and the heroism of men, women, and children who faced crumbling life jackets and inaccessible lifeboats as the inferno quickly spread, historian Edward T. O'Donnell brings to life a bygone community while honoring the victims of that forgotten day.
