Continued from June 19th.
Ot took days for professional divers to recover the bodies (844 of them). Searching a sunked ship that is pitch-black, almost the size of a football field, four stories tall and on its side in the Chicago River is no easy task. The first-known clips of footage was found this month by a University of Illinois graduate student.
Television reports of the find prompted Northern Illinois University (my old school) master's degree candidate Alex Revzan to search through a British online newsreel archive. The videos were not indexed so it took Revzan 90 minutes to go through hundreds of clips before he found one among several clips about shipwrecks.
Ted Wachholz, executive director of the Eastland Disaster Historical Society he believed that even more footage might be found. He said that hundreds of photos have been donated to them, but nothing mad ethe disaster more real than this recently discovered videos.
And, next month Will mark the 100th Anniversary of the Eastland Tragedy.
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