Alma Turek-SS Eastland
A photo of Alma Turek. Alma boarded SS Eastland ship with her father for a picnic in Chicago, Illinois on July 24, 1915. The ship slowly rolled to its side near the docks-844 people lost their lives due to drowning or being crushed to death. Alma was only 10 years old when she and her father sadly perished in the disaster.
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in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois United States