Search Strategies & Selected Articles

The links below provide access to a sampling of articles from historic newspapers that can be found in Chronicling America. You can further explore the topic of the "General Slocum Steamboat Tragedy" using the following search strategies:

Use the following terms in combination, proximity, or as a phrase:
SS General Slocum, Slocum, Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, Captain William Van Schaick, Frank Barnaby, Secretary George Cortelyou, East River, Long Island Sound, Slocum relief fund, criminal negligence, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
It is important to use a specific date range if looking for articles for a particular event in order to narrow your results. To narrow your results for this topic, search between June 1904 and January 1906.

Selected Articles from Chronicling America

"An Appalling Catastrophe Women and Children Perish"
The Evening Statesman (Walla Walla, WA), June 15, 1904, Image 1, col. 3-6.
"More Than Six Hundred Women and Children Die on Flaming Vessel or Leap Overboard to Drown"
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA), June 16, 1904, Image 1, col. 2-6.
"Horror in East River"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), June 16, 1904, Image 1, col. 1-6.
"Horror Claims Over a Thousand"
The Washington Times (Washington, DC), June 16, 1904, Evening Edition, Image 1, col. 6.
"Seven Hundred Lives Lost"
The Stark County Democrat (Canton, OH), June 17, 1904, Weekly Edition, Image 1, col. 1-4.
"Hundreds Perished by Fire and Water"
The Herald and News (Newberry, SC), June 17, 1904, Image 1, col. 1-4.
"Official Inquiry into Burning of the Steamer General Slocum"
Evening Star (Washington, DC), June 22, 1904, Page 6, Image 6, col. 2.
"Over Six Hundred Perish"
The Muskogee Cimeter (Muskogee, OK), June 23, 1904, Image 2, col. 2-4.
"No More Needed for Relief"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), June 24, 1904, Page 7, Image 7, col. 2.
"Grand Opera House Benefit"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), June 25, 1904, Page 3, Image 3, col. 3.
"Indictment for Slocum Captain"
The Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, MN), July 29, 1904, Image 1, col. 3.
"Full Extent of the Law: Sentence of Captain of the Gen. Slocum"
Evening Star (Washington, DC), January 28, 1906, Page 2, Image 2, col. 6.
"Slocum Memorial"
New-York Tribune (New York, NY), July 8, 1904, Page 2, Image 14, col. 2-3.

General Slocum Steamboat Tragedy: Topics in Chronicling America

Search Strategies & Selected Articles

Selected Articles from Chronicling America