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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

90: The Eastland Disaster

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The 1915 disaster claimed more lives than the Titanic...while docked on the Chicago River.

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The Titanic of the Midwest.

0:32.4

I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib. And this is Ghost Town. I used to live very close to the Chicago River when I lived in Chicago for grad school and

0:57.0

one of the things that I've always wanted to do an episode on is something that happened right on the Chicago River.

1:04.8

It's really, you can walk across it.

1:07.1

It's really easy.

1:08.6

It's like 0.3 miles across.

1:11.6

So like just a tiny jaunt. And yet 844 people died in it when a

1:17.9

ship rolled over on its side. It is the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck in the Great Lakes. It is the

1:26.9

SS Eastland disaster. They didn't name the boat the SS Eastland disaster you're adding the disaster on

1:34.3

because then you'd be like well we saw this coming no I mean to say it is the

1:38.0

disaster the ship is called SS Eastland did I not make that clear oh no I was just I was

1:42.3

like well you never know maybe they're like let's be clear the ship was not

1:45.5

called disaster the ship was just a normal everyday it was a tour ship and in

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