High Spirits Chicago

Episode 4: Eastland Disaster

Jay walks us through the Eastland Disaster – in Chicago, 844 people lost their lives on Saturday, July 24, 1915.

This story contains:

1. Details of the Eastland Disaster (Clark Street Bridge!)

2. A poem written by outraged journalist/poet Carl Sandburg (Poem!)

3. Temporary Morgues (floating Morgue under Wells St. Bridge!)

4. The ghosts at Harpo Studio (Lady in Gray!)

5. SPOILER ALERT: Excalibur has been debunked as a morgue for the Eastland Disaster (It’s just a nightclub maybe haunted by other old-timey ghosts!)

Sweet Dreams!