SS Eastland Disaster

Speaker: David Nelson

David Nelson is a Eastland Historian. Grandson of Elmer Nelson -Eastland Rescuer and welder. He is Director of Remember the Eastland. Lecturer and historian, who informs the public of this 1915 worst maritime disaster and preserves its history with nautical error in ship-building and a cause of a great loss of life..844 people died.

The SS Eastland sinking was due to failed engineering. The ship sank in the Chicago River before heading to Michigan City, Indiana. The ship was known for cruising the Lake Michigan from Port Huron to Michigan City and Chicago.  The speaker will cover the problems with the ship which had been known to the ship building company before the sinking. .