The English edition of the book of interviews is called Underground: the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche, and he gave us permission to read portions of it here. GRAFF, Elsie, 40 years, of 134 Second street. The increased speed fanned the flames. and where appropriate, linking the families. WEISL, Mrs. Caroline, 50 years, of 337 East Sixth street, identified by sister. ADDICKS, Margaret, 12 years, of 49 Avenue A. ALBRECHT, 44 years, of 201 East Tenth street [same person as above?]. Each participant takes an active role in this powerful learning experience. ], MICHAELS, Carrie, of 171 Avenue A. ], SIEDERWAND, Henry, of 194 East Third street, SIEFERT, Henry, 28 years, of 215 West Twenty-third street, SIEGMOND, Annie, of 225 Fifth street [SIEGWART on missing? General Slocum [COHRS? One team of heroes in the best tradition of Aw, shucks, I didnt do nuthin rose to the occasion at Rikers Island. SCHMIDT, Freda, 19 years, of 290 East Second street, SCHMIDT, Josephine, of 98 East Seventh street, SCHMIDT, Katie, 40 years, of 418 East Ninth street, SCHMIDT, Martha, of 402 East Eighteenth street, SCHMIDTLING, Anna, 15 years, of 119 Seventh street, identified by brother. Men trampling down women and children. Under blue skies, the Slocum steamed up river with a hired band playing. Why? Defeat 50 enemies under the effect of Slow. Adella Wotherspoon (1903-2004) in 1996. between 1,200 and 2,000 people, mainly mothers and children, boarded the General Slocum for a cruise to Long Island Sound, a picnic at Locust Grove, and a returning cruise with sunset and stars.Two hours after leaving the dock and sailing up the East River through Hell Gate, the ship was ablaze from bow to stern and passengers, many already being burned alive, were jumping overboard. The Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York published his report, which listed the fatalities, the injured, and the missing as a book. Their painstaking documentation of the event and subsequent trials also situated their ordeal in a larger framing history of a fairly typical New York German family with 19th century immigrant roots, proud of their American citizenship, but still reading German language newspapers and baptizing their children in the German Lutheran Church. The flames, accelerated by fresh coat of highly flammable paint, rapidly enveloped the ship and passengers began to jump overboard. Finally, it also demonstrated that although badly shaken, the spirit of New York City and its people remained resilient in the face of tragedy. The last survivor of the Slocum disaster died this past January at age 100, on the century anniversary of the tragedy. Heart-breaking scenes unfolded at a temporary morgue established on a pier, the only space large enough to accommodate so many victims. OCHLER of 422 East Ninth street. The dispatches they sent back to their newsrooms sickened many a hardened editor. Or that of my grandaunt who missed the boat to "play hooky" and spend the day with her fiance. First, it caused the rapid dissolution of the German enclave of Kleindeutschland. Virtually every facility on the river and both shores was pressed into service for the living and the dead. General Slocum SCHMIDT, Eva, 17 years, of 149 East Fourth street, identified by brother. catalyst for sweeping changes in how the public and the law looked at marine commercial transportation. Each story is unique, just as each household was unique. SMITH, Hildreth, 3 years, of 18 Jackson street, identified by father,George. [MC LOUGHLIN ], MEDDLEN, Frederick, 9 years, of 338 Fifth street, MEDDLEN, Robert, 11 years, of 338 Fifth street, MEIKE, Daisy, 11 years, of 504 East Sixteenth street, identified by father,Otto. KOPF, Ellis, 1 1/2 years, of 337 East Ninth street, identified by father,Marin. COHRS, Freda, 26 years, of 106 Avenue A, identified by brother Henry. Their destination was a church picnic on Long Island. GRAF, Charlotte, of 560 West Fifty-fourth street. ], LAHN, Dora, 25 years, of 1000 Union avenue, Bronx, identified by father Philip, LAU, George, 227 East Eleventh street [listed twice in a row]. MULLER, Flora, 27 years, married, of 28 West Ninety-seventh street,identified by brother. Right now, while many advisors continue to limit face-to-face meetings with wholesalers, the inside team possesses an enormous opportunity to drive new sales. At the morgue, Coroners Joseph Berry and William OGorman oversaw the policemen and Coroners Department workers as they labored to lay out the hundreds of corpses as they arrived. Greater New Yorkand much of the country beyondwas stunned by the Slocum disaster. One patient, Mary McCann, a 17-year-old Irish immigrant who had arrived at Ellis Island only three weeks earlier, plunged into the water and saved 10 children. [East Fourth ], IRWIN, Fannie, 25 years, of 2112 Third avenue, JONK, Bertha, 59 years, of 314 East Ninth street, JOSEPH, Frank, 7 years, of 45 Third avenue, JUST, Leontine, of 105 East Eighth street. The program is designed to transform the inside team from a client relations mind-set, to a world-class sales team. ZEIGLER, Mrs. Anna, 25 years, of 123 East One Hundred and Eighth street, ZIMMERMAN, Augusta, 16 years, of 196 Second avenue, ZIMMERMAN, Hugo, 12 years, of 196 Second avenue, identified by J. HART of 314 West Fifty-third street (Body No. Edward T. ODonnell is completing a book on the General Slocum tragedy, to be published by Broadway Books later this year. Nearly all of the medical personnel on North Brother Island, where the flaming wreck came to rest, assisted however they could. GALEWSKI, Marris, 3 years, of 54 Seventh street [Morris on missing? [listed also as ROTTINGER ]. ], GROLKA, Amelia, 345 East Fifteenth street, GROSS, Bruno, 5 years, of 90 First avenue, GROSS, Emma, 44 years, of 90 First avenue [also on missing], GROWALD, Elsie, 10 years, of 56 Seventh street [GREWALD on missing? [Kate, PAULY on missing?]. ], IDEN, Grace, 6 years, of 100 Fourth street, identified by brother, Henry. FELDLUSEN, Margaret, 52 years of 50 West Eighth street, identified by Cortlandt F. MAYBORG. of 402 Third avenue, DANCERNICKEIL, Mrs. Henry, 1065 Jackson avenue, the Bronx, DEISSMAN, Lena, 16 years of 114 East Fourth street, DELUCCIE, Agnes, 7 years, of 54 Seventh street. Home > Archive > Archive > 98 Years Ago: the General Slocum Tragedy. A memorial where remains of the unidentified deceased could be buried was dedicated only one year later in the Queens Lutheran Cemetery. These tragic scenes were punctuated by the suicides of several men and women who lost their entire families in the fire. NABOTTONY, Louis, of 190 East Third street, NETTLER, Albert, of 338 East Fifth street, NOLL, Kate, 20 years, of 400 east Fifth street [400 Fifth street ], NORWAY, Carl, 1 year, of 313 East Ninth street, identified by brother William.[HORWAY?]. BECKMAN, Anna, 7 months, of 1894 Third avenue, identified by father, Arthur. Funerals were held every hour for days on end in the churches of Kleindeutschland. ], POLIUSCH, Olga, 11 years, of 320 Fifth street, PRAWDYSKI, Henrietta, 14 years, of 85 East Third street, identified by an uncle of same address. There are 13 achievements and trophies in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor about combat. Is that a fact? General Slocum BURFEIND, Dora, 22 years, of 247 West Twenty-seventh street, CLOUST, Minnie, 13 years, of 144 East Seventh street, COHRS, Freda, 26 years, of 105 Avenue A [same as above?]. Cover of historian Edward O'Donnell's book, Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum. Reformers called for stricter boat inspections, crews trained with fire drills, less-flammable ship materials and even swimming lessons for the public. [Mrs. Martha, same age, same address ], MOLITAN, Margaret, Bronx Brewing Company, Mt. Mark's German Lutheran Church hired the General Slocum Steamboat for their 17th Annual picnic to Long Island New York on June 15, 1904. Captain William Henry Van Schaick and Frank Barnaby, president of the Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, were the primary targets of the Coroner's inquiry. Father of General Slocum victims Anna and Helen Liebenow. Paul Liebenow Meanwhile, flames rapidly consumed the wooden stanchions supporting the decks, before the captain managed to ground the ship's bow on the rocky island shore (visible today from the Triborough Bridge). There are 53 achievements and trophies in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.Weve listed them all below broken into general categories like combat or story. ], MICHAELS, Margaret, of 624 East Twelfth street, MICHEL, Carrie, 12 years, of 171 Avenue A, identified by father, John. KOLIDER, Henry, 12 years, of 315 East Thirteenth street, identified byuncle. Ten minutes later, disaster struck. WEIDLER, Laura, 35 years, of 411 East Ninth street, WEIDLER, Laura, 55 years, of 411 East Ninth street. (12 minutes), David Sedaris talks about American and French reaction to the recent news in Paris, where he lives. Until now, June 15, 1904 and the epic of the General Slocum have been fodder for the writers of sensational fiction and refried press coverage.