The burning of the Steamboat General Slocum on New York's East River on June 15, 1904, was the worse disaster in New York's history before the 9/11 attacks, killing 1,021 people, mostly women and children, according to the official numbers. Author Edward T. O'Donnell obviously did a tremendous job in researching this horrible disaster by going through thousands of pages of archiv material and old newspaper articles.
For readers only interested in the steamboat related part of the disaster,...

Franz Neumeier