Personal Accounts, A through I
Borghild Aanstad
...was taught to swim by her childhood pal...
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Marianne Aanstad
...she did not like the feel of the ship...
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Solveig Aanstad
...could see the sky above...through the portholes...
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Charles Agnastoklio (Agnos)
...I didn't even get wet - at first...
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Norman Ally
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Anonymous
...we saw rescuers pitching bodies out of the river like logs...
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Anonymous
...the furniture...crashed upon the poor victims...
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Charles Anthony
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Harlan E. Babcock
...infants floated about like corks...
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Charles Bender
...body was found under a piano...
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Johnny Benson
...immediately left work and ran down to the dock...
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Bernard, Elizabeth Beverley
...they watched as the ship began to roll over...
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George C. Berner
...married his good friend's widow...
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Walter A. Berner
...on the Eastland when it rolled...
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Emily Bechman Biehl
...a bride at 18 and a widow at 19...
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Frederick Biehl
...good friend married his widow...
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Jack James Billow
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Frank Blaha
...it was just like tears falling from the sky...
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Abraham Isaac Blumenthal
...jumped into the river to help...
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Rev. Henry Boester
...they found much needed comfort and strength...in the Word of God...
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Anna Bohn
...spoke very little about her experience...
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Charles R. E. Bowles
...he brought back two bodies - a mother clasping her baby rigidly to her breast...
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Peter Boyle
...gave his life in the effort to save others...
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Anna Brenner
...brought home in her coffin...it was her 18th birthday...
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Grover James and Walter Brown
...the two brothers missed boarding...
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Hugh Brown
...up to his neck in a mud pocket...
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Willard Brown
...It was like one big scream and then everything was quiet...
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Hazel Brychta
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Josef Brychta
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Capt. Charles Carland
...he received from the coroner a letter of thanks and a silver star...
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Charles Carroll
...they remained together clinging onto the railings...
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Thomas Chakinis
...pointed to the life preservers...
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Mary Louise Christiany
...found her at a place where survivors were being taken...
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William F. Corbett
...jumped right into the attempts being made to rescue people...
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...assisted with the rescue and recovery...
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Orville Craig
...watched the rescue and recovery work...
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Bert Cross
...If I live to be a thousand years old I will never forget the experience...
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Rev. Bronislaus Czajkowski
...performed the funeral services for forty-one victims...
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Morris Dempsey
...stopped at a liquor store...
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Regina Dolezal
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Capt. Dan Donovan
...descend(ed) into the hull of death...
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Ralph Harold Dring
...he threw in all his crates...
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Bessie Dvorak
...had been dragged underwater...
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Patrick Egan
...entitled to special honorable mention...
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Frederic J. Ehrhardt
...broke apart the family...
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Clara C. Ehrhardt
...broke apart the family...
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Raymond Leroy Ehrhardt
...wound up at the orphanage...
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Ione Ehrhardt
...left parentless...
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Henry J. Ehrhardt
...was there to help his niece and nephew...
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Fred, Anna Eichholz
...she thought she was going to die...that drowning was a peaceful way to go...
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Marion Eichholz
...Suddenly, the boat listed and I fell against the railing...
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Gotthold G. Elbert
...there were for many the long years of hard work caused by the death of the breadwinner...
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James Lee Elliott
...sat on a piling
underneath the bridge...
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Harry Engenhart
...The two brothers were on the Eastland that morning...
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William Engenhart
...The two brothers were on the Eastland that morning...
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Alma Fikerle
...was going on the second boat...
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Stanley Filipowski
...wet and with one shoe missing...
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William Joseph Fitzgerald
...he couldn't swim...
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Anna Fitzgerald
...I seized my son...
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William Walter Fitzgerald
...was at the wharf...
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Roberto Fornera
...dove back down to search for her...
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F. D. Fredericks
...grabbed two other workers and immediately left work...
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Edward Henry Garner
...named their daughter...after her one true love...
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Friederika Suess Garner
...named their daughter...after her one true love...
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Morris S. Gault
...was white as a sheet and soaked to the bone...he had helped bring people in during the rescue...
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Anna Agnes Gay
...the decision saved her life...
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Herman Gierman
...could not attend...because of his work schedule...
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Clark R. Greene
...someone with a megaphone announced 'Western Electric picnic called off'...
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Anna Grutzius
...marked July 24th...with a skull and crossbones...
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William Guenther
...Come on, Willie, we'll have a good time...
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Charles Gunderson
...It was up to me to live or die...
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Mabel Gunderson
...It was such a pitiful sight...
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Genevieve Hajek
...she was so frightened that she didn't even think of praying...
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Charles Hart
...pulled between 50 and 100 people from the river...
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Harry Halvorsen
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James Hays
...able to escape with their lives...
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Lester T. Hessong
...I'll never forget the terrible scene...
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Robert Elliott Hicks
...the accident was caused by the overloading...
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Vaclav Homola
...fought desperately for their lives...
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Zofie Homola
...fought desperately for their lives...
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Marenka Homola
...fought desperately for their lives...
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Vlasta Homola
...fought desperately for their lives...
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Caroline Homolka
...had dressed in a new dress, a real summery dress that she herself had sewn...
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Augusta Houillon
...a locker fell over her and provided an air pocket for her to breathe...
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Edward D. Hutchings
...That boat was always unsafe and it was criminal to run it...
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Katerina Ivanecky
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