Ashes Under Water

Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493015524
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes Under Water written by Michael McCarthy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger, longer, faster. The pressure-filled and greedy climate that resulted would be directly responsible for the Eastland disaster and others. As dramatic as the disaster was, the subsequent trial was even more so. The public demanded justice. When the immigrant engineer who was being scapegoated for the accident was left out to dry by the ship’s owners, penniless and down-on-his-luck Clarence Darrow decided to take his case. The defense he mounted, which he was too ashamed to even mention in his memoirs, would be even more shocking.

Author : Michael McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493009404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes Under Water written by Michael McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History. On July 24th, 1915, Chicago commuters were horrified as they watched the SS Eastland, a tourism boat taking passengers across Lake Michigan, flip over while tied to the dock and drown 835 passengers, including 21 entire families. Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie had bought into the ship business in the Midwest, creating a boom market and a demand for ships that were bigger, longer, faster. The pressure-filled and greedy climate that resulted would be directly responsible for the Eastland disaster and others. As dramatic as the disaster was, the subsequent trial was even more so. The public demanded justice. When the immigrant engineer who was being scapegoated for the accident was left out to dry by the ship's owners, penniless and down-on-his-luck Clarence Darrow decided to take his case. The defense he mounted, which he was too ashamed to even mention in his memoirs, would be even more shocking.

Author : Jo Treggiari
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545388805
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ashes, Ashes written by Jo Treggiari and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares.Epidemics, floods, droughts--for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan, she reluctantly realizes she can't continue on her own. She joins his band of survivors, yet a new danger awaits her: the Sweepers are looking for her. There's something special about Lucy, and they will stop at nothing to have her.

Author : Ted Wachholz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738534411
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eastland Disaster written by Ted Wachholz and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial chronicle of the events of July 24, 1915, when the steamship Eastland capsized and sank in the port of Chicago, killing over eight hundred people.

Author : Patricia Sutton
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 161373946X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capsized! written by Patricia Sutton and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Public Library's "100 Best Books for Kids" Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of 2018" 2019 Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Honoree 2019 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List 2019 Cybils Literary Award Winner A 2019 Cooperative Children's Book Center's Choice Wisconsin Writers Contest 2018 Winner of the Tofte/Wright Children's Literary Award On July 24, 1915, the SS Eastland, filled to capacity with 2,500 passengers and crew, capsized in the Chicago River while still moored to the pier. Happy picnic-goers headed for an employee outing across Lake Michigan suddenly found themselves in a struggle for their lives. Trapped belowdecks, crushed by the crowds attempting to escape the rising waters, or hurled into the river from the upper deck of the ship, roughly one-third of the passengers, mostly women and children, perished that day. The Eastland disaster took more passenger lives than the Titanic and stands today as the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes. Capsized! details the events leading up to the fateful day and provides a nail-biting, minute-by-minute account of the ship's capsizing. From the courage of the survivors to the despair of families who lost loved ones, author Patricia Sutton brings to light the stories of ordinary working people enduring the unthinkable. Capsized! also raises critical-thinking questions for young readers: Why do we know so much about the Titanic's sinking yet so little about the Eastland disaster? What causes a tragedy to be forgotten and left out of society's collective memory? And what lessons from this disaster might we be able to apply today?

Author : George W. Hilton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728010
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ‘Eastland’ written by George W. Hilton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the 1915 capsizing of the steamer Eastland in the Chicago River, an accident that killed more than eight hundred people, details the role of safety measures instituted after the sinking of the Titantic and examines the civil and criminal court proceedings which followed it.

Author : Alexander CARSON
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baptism in its Mode and Subjects considered; and the arguments of Mr. Ewing & Dr. Wardlaw refuted written by Alexander CARSON and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1272 pages
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Download or read book Engineering Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Download or read book Mechanical Handling and Works Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 118 pages
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Download or read book Cheap Steam written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: