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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1915
Page
6
Eyewitnesses recount the Eastland catastrophe with women guiding others to safety while men frantically struggle for survival. Fireman Fred Swigert mourns his daughter as divers recover bodies. dozens remain unaccounted as rescues flood morgues and hospitals.
The Eastland excursion steamer capsized at her pier on July 24 killing an estimated 1,000 people including many Western Electric Company workers and their families. Firemen and police recovered 900 bodies with divers and morgues at the armory, while state and federal probes blame U S inspectors for the catastrophe.
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