Deadlier Than the Titanic | The Ship That Capsized at Its Own Dock

On the morning of July 24, 1915, more than 2,500 workers and their families boarded the SS Eastland on the Chicago River, bound for a company picnic across Lake Michigan. The ship never moved. Within minutes of reaching full capacity, the Eastland rolled onto her side at the dock, drowning 844 people in twenty feet of water, nineteen feet from shore. It remains the deadliest single-ship disaster in American history, and more passengers died that morning than aboard the Titanic.