Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the General Slocum Disaster: By Which Nearly 1200 Lives Were Lost by the Burning of the Steamer General Slocum in Hell Gate, New York Harbor, June 15, 1904
Nearly all of those who were burned and drowned were women and little children, members of the Sunday School of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, in Sixth street, who were on their annual excursion.
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