Content warnings:
Having COVID-19, endangered animals, brief reference to children dying in a fire in previous episode, very brief mentions of miscarriage and infertility, being an orphan, forced medication, orphanages, tragic implications of poverty, violence against Native Americans, yellow fever, foster care, building fire with children in peril who survive, Catholicism, hurricane, large-scale death of children as an unavoidable part of the episode, drowning, decomposing bodies, mass casualties, large scale damage to city, water rescue, ghosts, racism/white people virtue signaling, structural racism in education, very vague mention of domestic violence, media representations of LGBTQ+ and POC and trauma, traumatic childbirth/emergency c-section

Links:
BRIA 14 3 a How Welfare Began in the United States
Galveston's Haunted Orphanage
Original Site of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum
Orphanages: An Historical Overview
Portrait of a Legend: The Great Storm of 1900: St. Mary’s Orphan Asylum
Queen of the Waves
St. Mary's Orphanage, Galveston
The heroic nuns who lost their lives in the Galveston hurricane of 1900
The Sisters of Charity Orphanage
Yellow Fever

Outro music:
Galveston Hurricane 1900 - Film: Thomas A. Edison - Music: Tom Rush

Music clip used in episode:
Queen of the waves1

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Pigs eating people, animal death, plane crash with fatalities, water rescue, hypothermia, broken arms, loss of spouse/SO, loss of adult child, heart attack, depression, loss of infant in disaster 1:18:13-1:18:23

Links:
AAR8208
Afterward
Air Florida Flight 90
Air Florida Flight 90
At 3:59 p.m. he was on a plane to Florida; 2 minutes later, it crashed into the Potomac River
Bridge of Sighs
Cold Water Survival
Eagle One: Rescue and Recovery of Air Florida Flight 90
FIVE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES
FLIGHT 90 A MIRACLE FOR SURVIVOR
INSTANT HERO
Plane Crash Casualty List
Plane crashes into Potomac River
Reverse thrust, JUST AMAZING on a wet runway, A380, B747, B777, B787, A330
ROBERT SILBERGLIED, SCIENTIST, AMONG DEAD IN PLANE CRASH
Sheehan, M. (Writer), & Wolochatiuk, T. (Director). (2015, March 1). Air Emergency/ Tragedy On the Potomac [Television series episode]. In Air Emergency.
Silberglied, Robert E.
The Plane Accident of Air Florida Flight 90
Too Late to Join Friends, Man Sat in Rear of Plane -- and Lived
Views From the Bridge -- and on It on TV
What Is ‘Reverse Thrust’ in Airplanes and How Does It Work?

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Death of birds, deer hunting, discussion of mortality and grief, crushing death of an adolescent around 22:00-24:00, strangling death, anti-Muslim racism 33:05-34:18, scalping, death of a mother in front of her small child and spouse, serious injury to leg, serious injury to child's arm, suffocation/stragulation death of a 4 year old 44:58-45:25, falling death of a 3 year old 45:25-46:36, falling death of adult, extremely vague mention of possible suicide, ableism, loss of spouse during pregnancy, child in peril who survives with injuries, cremation, brief mention of a young mom dying from cancer

Links:
2018 Rome escalator accident
Chinese escalator that crushed woman had design flaw, investigators say
Chinese mother Xiang Liujuan saves son before being swallowed by escalator
Chinese Woman DIES Saving Child On Escalator
Cleaner's leg amputated after China's third escalator accident in a week
Eaten by an Escalator - documentary
Escalator accidents happen every 2nd day in Montreal Metro
Escalator speeds up and collapses in Rome, injuring football fans
Horrible Escalator-Related Deaths
James Darst Obituary
Naima Rharouity ID'd as victim in Montreal escalator death
New Orleans Police Identify the Man Who Died in Harrah’s Escalator Fall
One Dead, 28 injured in Beijing subway escalator accident
Rome escalator accident: Victim has foot amputated after being crushed in collapse after football match
Shocking moment shopper falls to his death after losing his balance on escalator and plummeting 40 feet onto pensioner below
Shopping mall death: Staff knew escalator was broken
Teenager killed in Beijing escalator accident
Toddler crushed to death in escalator tragedy
VIDEO: Woman saves her two-year-old son before dying in escalator accident
Watch Toddler Plummeting To Death From Escalator!
Woman strangled after scarf gets caught in Montreal subway escalator

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Poop, birds, plane emergency landing, mention of pornography, brief mentions of vomit

Links:
12 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Flavors Inspired By Musicians, Bands, and Festivals
2004 Dave Matthews Band Chicago River incident
Aboard the Carnival Triumph cruise ship
Accident: Ryanair B738 at Rome on Nov 10th 2008, engine and landing gear trouble, temporarily departed runway
Cara's Basement
Carnival Cruise Ship Ordered Held in Texas in Shipwreck Suit
Carnival Triumph Disaster: A drama of discomfort
Carnival Triumph Review
Chicago's Little Lady
CNN Exclusive: Carnival knew of fire danger before cruise, documents show
Cruise Line’s Woes Are Far From Over as Ship Makes Port
Cruise passengers are sunk before they ever sue
Dave Matthews' tour bus dumps on sightseers
Dave Matthews Tour Bus Dumps Human Waste On Tour Boat (2004)
Dave Matthews Still Apologizing For “Poopgate”
Falcons and sheep sent in to help clean up Rome
Fire-damaged Carnival ship stuck at sea another day
Hosed
I Think About This a Lot: The Dave Matthews Band Poop Bus Incident
In Rome, Starling Stalkers Try to Scare the Birds Out of Town
Italy: Rome drowns in bird droppings as austerity bites
Matthews Band bus driver pleads guilty to dumping waste in river
National news briefs — March 31
Passengers on Carnival’s Infamous ‘Poop’ Cruise Are Having Their Day in Court
Plane accidentally empties toilet tank over cruise ship, 23 injured
Rome Is Getting Buried in the Droppings of a Million Starlings
Ryanair Flight 4102
Summer 2004: One of Chicago's coldest
The Floating White House: A Brief History of the Presidential Yacht
The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894
US Marshals detains cruise ship over Costa Concordia lawsuit

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Racism, vaguely mentioned premature birth, specific children in theoretical peril, frostbite, loss of spouse, death by drowning (very vaguely mentioned), death by freezing (very vaguely mentioned), coma, blood loss, a quote containing a racial slur, general discussion of the impacts of PTSD, a disaster in which 59 children die but are not discussed specifically at all

Links:
Black passengers add another facet to Titanic story
Black People and Titanic: The Reality
Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche
Kate Buss: Titanic Survivor
Losing Laroche: The Story of the Only Black Passenger on the Titanic
Miss Louise Laroche
Second Class Cabins
The little-known story of the only Black family onboard the Titanic
The Titanic Second Class Passengers
Titanic: Facts & Figures
Titanic Victims
Une Rescapée du Titanic
What was life like on board Titanic?

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Elephant hunting, brief mention of murder-suicide, old-timey racism, lung disease, feces, violent strike-breaking, dire poverty/food insecurity, mass death of children which is the topic of the episode but is not discussed until 58:15 and is addressed without graphic detail, trampling/stampeding/crushing deaths

Links:
1913 Massacre
1913 Massacre
Amelia Earhart Mystery: Was the Lost Pilot Eaten by Giant Coconut Crabs?
Anna Clemenc
Anna Klobuchar Clemenc
Calumet, MI
Charles Moyer
Copper Mining Strike of 1913
Deputy sheriff badge
Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan · Page 3
Italian Hall
Italian Hall Disaster
Italian Hall Disaster: Stuff You Missed in History Class
James MacNaughton
Laurium Manor Inn
Subject Focus: The 1913-1914 Copper Country Strike and the Italian Hall Disaster
The Calumet Tragedy
Thomas H. Hoatson House
U.S. history of alcohol minimum purchase age by state

SHOW NOTES

Content warnings:
Drowning, water search, missing people

Links:
25 years ago, thousands watched a balloon launch on Public Square
Balloonfest '86
Balloonfest 1986, the spectacle that became a debacle: Cleveland Remembers (video)
Claim to world record for 'Balloonfest '86' is not all hot air: Michael K. McIntyre's Tipoff
Cleveland Summertime Memories: A Warm Look Back
Releasing 1.5 Million Balloons Into The Air Is A Bad Idea
That Time Cleveland Released 1.5 Million Balloons and Chaos Ensued
The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86

SHOW NOTES

Content warning: this episode discusses the large-scale death of children in moderate detail.

BACK IN THE DAY: EPISODE 9 | OUR LADY OF THE ANGEL'S SCHOOL FIRE 1958
Chicago Fire Dept. - Our Lady Of The Angels School Fire 1958
Chicago Tribune 04 Dec 1958 Hunt Ransom Hoax Sadist in Pupil Deaths
FLASHOVER AND BACKDRAFT: A Primer
Our Lady of the Angels blaze. Chicago, 1958. Documents #2.
Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School Fire, December 1, 1958
Our Lady of the Angels School fire
Our Lady of the Angels: The fire that 'changed everything'
Recognizing flashover conditions can save your life
The story of the tragedy at Chicago's "Our Lady of the Angels" School Fire on December 1, 1958 which killed 92 children and 3 Nuns
To Sleep with the Angels: The Story of a Fire Cowan & Kuenster - Ivan R. Dee – 1998
WGN Channel 9 - John Drury and NewsNine - "Our Lady of the Angels Fire Confession" (1979)