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001 2014027543
003 DLC
005 20151006081257.0
008 140811s2014 ctu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2014027543
020 $a9780762793280 (hardback)
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050 00 $aG530.E18$bM44 2014
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100 1 $aMcCarthy, Michael,$d1962-
245 10 $aAshes under water :$bthe SS Eastland and the shipwreck that shook America /$cMichael McCarthy.
263 $a1409
264 1 $aGuilford, Connecticut :$bLyons Press,$c2014.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Ashes Under Water is the riveting untold story of the 1915 sinking of the SS Eastland, a Lake Michigan excursion boat, which rolled over while tied to its dock, within feet of one the busiest intersections in Chicago's famed Loop District. Horrified morning commuters watched it all unfold. The final death toll would not come for weeks but would be 835 people, including 21 entire families. The trial would make national headlines and cause public outrage; the effort to bring the guilty ship owners to justice was thwarted by future star lawyer Clarence Darrow. Darrow defended the only true hero of the ship, engineer Joseph Erickson, whose wealthy bosses laid all the blame at his feet. A national disaster and tragedy, a courtroom drama, corrupt businessmen and Chicago politics, and a story of the cost of America's industrial might all in one gripping story. Author Michael McCarthy takes the reader back one hundred years to the one of the most shocking accidents in American history. But the aftermath and cover-up just may have been even worse. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"The untold story of the worst disaster on the Great Lakes in U.S. History"--$cProvided by publisher.
610 20 $aEastland (Ship).
650 0 $aSteamboat disasters$zIllinois$zChicago River.
650 0 $aShipwrecks$zIllinois$zChicago River.
650 0 $aTrials (Manslaughter)$zIllinois$zChicago.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$xHistory$y1875-
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI).$2bisacsh