A bright, sunny New York morning turned to disaster in a matter of moments - and it would be the city's most deadly disaster for almost a hundred years. This heartbreaking disaster literally decimated a community, with a death toll of over a thousand, mostly women and children.

Drawing from contemporary reports and eyewitness accounts, I'll tell the story of the General Slocum disaster.

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