Title: Ship ablaze
Description: Describes the 1904 disaster aboard the General Slocum, a steamship chartered for a daytime excursion in the waters surrounding Manhattan, the fire that swept through the ship, and the more than one thousand people who died as a result.
Subjects: Fires and fire prevention, Ships, Fires, General Slocum (Steamboat), History
Places: New York, New York (N.Y.), New York (State)
Time periods: 1898-1951, 20th century