Mick Hartley

Lake Erie ca. 1910. "Excursion steamer Eastland – Cleveland, Ohio."

[Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Company]

On July 24, 1915, some five years after this was taken, 844 passengers and crew were drowned when the SS Eastland, which had a history of listing problems, rolled onto its side while docked in the Chicago River – the largest loss of life from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.