I spent over a dozen years looking into this story, and i had worked at the wall street journal for over 20 years and i had never encountered a story of this magnitude or drama. As i began looking into it what i found was that this has to be one of the most deadly, least known shipwrecks in america. And i uncovered a tale that was so horrible and so surprising i could not let it go. In a a lot of ways the story would not let me go, either. So were in july 1915, almost exactly 100 years ago. A large steamship. Think of the flatiron building on its side. That is virtually the exact size that eastland was. A flatiron building turned on its side quickly capsizes. Although it is tied to its dock. Yet, it capsize. 844 people die. Within minutes. 844 people. That is more passengers than died on the titanic, much more famous accident. 22 entire families died on the eastland. Mothers, aunts, 22 whole family units gone, wiped out in the Chicago River. Now, i do not know how many of your for real
Programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. This is about a century old project. We have been working on the project since five years. We expect to open in 2017. We have a place to show up these wonderful and amazing original object from the revolutionary era. For general view, or sometimes looking at 18thcentury firearms they tend to look alike that this really speaks to the one power of the ideas that were made the country and particularly the men who served under arms. If you look at these pieces of continental currency, you will notice the designs. These have been selected under the direction of Benjamin Franklin from a book of ancient symbology. In the center, it is difficult to see, but there is an image of a beaver chewing a tree. Calling on persistence on the part of the beaver. The idea that this is not going to be a conflict that is one overnight. That persistence will be rewarded the fee so me and is the continental three dollar bill. It has a great connection t
When they got to cabin partitions, they got to steel and scratched their fingers bloody trying to escape. This little girl, eleanor, was the only survivor of her entire family. Her entire family was killed. There were many orphans on the eastland. Many children were orphaned. For me, one of the as i say the photo of the little girl was one that drove me. I am touched by the number of children, orphans, and eastland children who are here. This is one. 2001 when i was initially starting the research, i was fortunate to meet someone who had been on the eastland. I had always wanted to and there was a woman named libby. She was nearly 100 in 2001. She was going to recollect being on the eastland. She was 10 at the time the ship went down and survived. I went to the talk, like this gathering, and i had hoped to interview her. I was deep in the research and wow what a great source to have. When i went to the talk, she was not talking and was not lucid enough to speak. She stood by the podium
Dozens of homes have been destroyed and evacuations theyre starting to mix some progress in containing the infernal as of this month in the container had jumped to 12 . J. R. Stone firefighters are certainly making progress on this fire we saw flames shooting into the air just 24 hours ago not the case right now because of the weather conditions kuala temperatures and wind that actually pushed the smoke out of the area of with the change in the weather and the drop in the temperatures and is definitely helped us out a lot Fire Fighters are monitoring those hot spots on the ground because cds helicopters that are being used as well to dump flame in water on the hot spots in those areas of concern just 24 hours ago this fire jumped over highway 20 imports and homes in the Spring Valley area of it has since gone to the northeast with talk of a number of people in Spring Valley and say it is night and day compared to what it was. it looks way better than it did yesterday and yesterday you
Though usually in a negative way. As in doesnt contain gluten or gluten free. But do you know what gluten is . Gluten, um. I think its some kind of a, i dont know. Well, i know that some people cant have it in their food. I dont know exactly what it is, but its something found in wheat that some people have sensitivities or allergies to. Gluten is sort of a family name for proteins in many of the grains we eat. The three most common grains are wheat, barley, and rye, but there are lots of others. Think of gluten as a sort of an edible adhesive. In fact, the word comes from, you guessed it, glue. Gluten keeps food from falling apart. And for most of us, theres no problem eating foods with gluten. But some people are sensitive to gluten and it may cause them all sorts of medical problems, so they avoid it. But thats tough because gluten is in a surprising variety of foods. For example. Gluten is in pastries and cereal. Cakes, croissants, muffin. Bread and pizza because theres bread with