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Ashes under water : the SS Eastland and the shipwreck that shook America

Title: Ashes under water : the SS Eastland and the shipwreck that shook America / Michael McCarthy.
Author: McCarthy, Michael, 1962-
Publication: Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Description

xviii, 301 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Ashes Under Water is the riveting untold story of the 1915 sinking of the SS Eastland, a Lake Michigan excursion boat, which rolled over while tied to its dock, within feet of one the busiest intersections in Chicago's famed Loop District. Horrified morning commuters watched it all unfold. The final death toll would not come for weeks but would be 835 people, including 21 entire families. The trial would make national headlines and cause public outrage; the effort to bring the guilty ship owners to justice was thwarted by future star lawyer Clarence Darrow. Darrow defended the only true hero of the ship, engineer Joseph Erickson, whose wealthy bosses laid all the blame at his feet. A national disaster and tragedy, a courtroom drama, corrupt businessmen and Chicago politics, and a story of the cost of America's industrial might all in one gripping story. Author Michael McCarthy takes the reader back one hundred years to the one of the most shocking accidents in American history. But the aftermath and cover-up just may have been even worse. "--
"The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History"--

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Call Number

JFE 15-1218

ISBN

LCCN

2014027543

OCLC

2014027543

Author

McCarthy, Michael, 1962-

Title

Ashes under water : the SS Eastland and the shipwreck that shook America / Michael McCarthy.

Publisher

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-1218