The General Slocum: Fire on the Water

On a bright morning in nineteen oh-four, a steamboat carrying a community of women and children to a picnic caught fire, and more than a thousand died in sight of the shore. This is the true history of New York's deadliest day before the eleventh of September.

On Six Feet of History, host August Mercer tells the real story of the General Slocum disaster: the burst fire hoses, the life jackets rotted to dust, the lifeboats wired in place, and the corporate neglect that killed over a thousand people and erased an entire neighbourhood, now almost completely forgotten.

If you love true history, forgotten disasters, dark history, and the untold stories the world let slip away, this is your history podcast. New stories every day. Follow Six Feet of History and subscribe wherever you listen. A Dark Whisper Studios production.

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