The Forgotten Bodies in the Water; the S.S. Eastland- Appendix A

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Figure 4 Fireman cradling a dead baby whom he tried to rescue from the steamer.

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Figure 5 Female survivor wrapped in a blanket, standing on the upper deck of another ship

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Figure 6 Floating Morgue erected at the Wells Street Bridge

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Figure 7 Interior of floating morgue, two men handling a coffin lid

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Figure 8 Divers Harry Halvorsen, Iver Johnson, Charles Gunderson, and Barry Sullivan, standing a amidst unidentified men on the deck of a barge

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Figure 9 Rowboat filled with survivors of the disaster

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Figure 10 Rescuers removing bodies from the overturned steamer Eastland

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Figure 11 Rescuers hoisting girl's corpse to rescuers standing above on the Eastland hull

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Figure 12 Line of people entering the temporary morgue at the Second Regiment Armory

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Figure 13 Funeral procession for brother and sister Francis and Florian Nowak

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Figure 14 the Favorite, a wrecking tug with a crane, alongside the overturned streamer

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Figure 15 Steamer lying on its port side, as crews prepare to erect the wreck

The following pictures were taking by Aimee Forte they are unpublished pictures.  They are present day pictures of where the Eastland capsized.  The pictures were taken November 9, 2010.

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Figure 16 looking at the present day site of where the Eastland capsized,

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Figure 17 the second plaque erected after the first plaque one was stolen.

Works Cited

Bonansing, Jay. The Sinking of the Eastland: America's Forgotten Tragedy. New York:                                                            Kensington Publishing, 2004.

Chuckman, John. “Steamer Eastland– Wells Street Dock – Later Sunk– 1908,”                 http://chuckmanchicagonostalgia.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/steamer-eastland-wells          street-dock-later-sunk-1908/, October 15, 2009 (accessed  November 1, 2010). 

Eastland Disaster Historical Society. Eastland Disaster Historical Society--A TITANIC      COMPARISON. http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/titaniccomparison.htm (accessed    September 14, 2010).

Eastland Disaster Historical Society.  “Terminology.”             http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/terminology.htm#Metacenter. (accessed September 14,    2010.)

Engberg-Klarstrom, Peter, Mike Poirier, and Hildo Thiel. Survivor/Dead Breakdown. May 1,        2005. http://www.rmslusitania.info/pages/breakdown.html (accessed November 1, 2010).

Fournier, Dr. Susan “The Eastland Disaster: A Case of Social Amnesia?”,             http://www.eastlanddisaster.org/depaulsoc1012000-034.pdf, October 25, 2000, (accessed November 1, 2010).

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Hilton, George W. Lake Michigan Passenger Steamers. Stanford : Stanford University Press,       2002.

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[1] Chicago Daily News, July 24, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064958.

[2] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064947

[3] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0065010.

[4] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064994.

[5] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064996.

[6] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064948.

[7] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064954.

[8] Chicago Daily News, July 26, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064944.

[9] Chicago Daily News, published in the newspaper between July 24-August 13, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064988.

[10] Chicago Daily News, July 29, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064963.

[11] Chicago Daily News, July 28, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064974.

[12] Chicago Daily News, July 28, 1915.  Courtesy of The Chicago History Museum, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0064980.

[13] Aimee Forte, taken November 9, 2010.

[14] Aimee Forte, taken November 9, 2010.