Sylvia, age 13, perished along with her entire family, in the S.S. Eastland Maritime Disaster on the Chicago River.
The fate of the Sindelar family is the saddest of them all: Mr. George J. Sindelar of 4537 W. Jackson Blvd., a foreman at Western Electric Co., was aboard the ship with his wife Josephine and children: Adelle 15, Sylvia 13, George Jr. 9, Albert 7 and William 3. Not one of them returned from the excursion and all were retrieved from the river as cold corpses. It took several days to retrieve the bodies from the river and, on the third day following the catastrophe, the bodies of Mrs. Sindelar and little William were found.
The joint funeral service for the whole family, which was conducted on the 28th of July in the Masonic Hall on Oakley Avenue, was one of the saddest and most touching. Thousands of people came to honor the three large caskets (for Mr. Sindelar's sister-in-law, Miss Regina Dolezal, who died with that family), and the five small caskets, mounted on mourning catacombs bedecked with waves of flowers, wreaths, ribbons and palms. Not a dry eye remained as caskets were bourne outside for transport to their final rest in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
The Eastland disaster claimed 844 lives. It was the worst disaster in Chicago History.
The fate of the Sindelar family is the saddest of them all: Mr. George J. Sindelar of 4537 W. Jackson Blvd., a foreman at Western Electric Co., was aboard the ship with his wife Josephine and children: Adelle 15, Sylvia 13, George Jr. 9, Albert 7 and William 3. Not one of them returned from the excursion and all were retrieved from the river as cold corpses. It took several days to retrieve the bodies from the river and, on the third day following the catastrophe, the bodies of Mrs. Sindelar and little William were found.
The joint funeral service for the whole family, which was conducted on the 28th of July in the Masonic Hall on Oakley Avenue, was one of the saddest and most touching. Thousands of people came to honor the three large caskets (for Mr. Sindelar's sister-in-law, Miss Regina Dolezal, who died with that family), and the five small caskets, mounted on mourning catacombs bedecked with waves of flowers, wreaths, ribbons and palms. Not a dry eye remained as caskets were bourne outside for transport to their final rest in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
The Eastland disaster claimed 844 lives. It was the worst disaster in Chicago History.
Sylvia, age 13, perished along with her entire family, in the S.S. Eastland Maritime Disaster on the Chicago River.
The fate of the Sindelar family is the saddest of them all: Mr. George J. Sindelar of 4537 W. Jackson Blvd., a foreman at Western Electric Co., was aboard the ship with his wife Josephine and children: Adelle 15, Sylvia 13, George Jr. 9, Albert 7 and William 3. Not one of them returned from the excursion and all were retrieved from the river as cold corpses. It took several days to retrieve the bodies from the river and, on the third day following the catastrophe, the bodies of Mrs. Sindelar and little William were found.
The joint funeral service for the whole family, which was conducted on the 28th of July in the Masonic Hall on Oakley Avenue, was one of the saddest and most touching. Thousands of people came to honor the three large caskets (for Mr. Sindelar's sister-in-law, Miss Regina Dolezal, who died with that family), and the five small caskets, mounted on mourning catacombs bedecked with waves of flowers, wreaths, ribbons and palms. Not a dry eye remained as caskets were bourne outside for transport to their final rest in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
The Eastland disaster claimed 844 lives. It was the worst disaster in Chicago History.
The fate of the Sindelar family is the saddest of them all: Mr. George J. Sindelar of 4537 W. Jackson Blvd., a foreman at Western Electric Co., was aboard the ship with his wife Josephine and children: Adelle 15, Sylvia 13, George Jr. 9, Albert 7 and William 3. Not one of them returned from the excursion and all were retrieved from the river as cold corpses. It took several days to retrieve the bodies from the river and, on the third day following the catastrophe, the bodies of Mrs. Sindelar and little William were found.
The joint funeral service for the whole family, which was conducted on the 28th of July in the Masonic Hall on Oakley Avenue, was one of the saddest and most touching. Thousands of people came to honor the three large caskets (for Mr. Sindelar's sister-in-law, Miss Regina Dolezal, who died with that family), and the five small caskets, mounted on mourning catacombs bedecked with waves of flowers, wreaths, ribbons and palms. Not a dry eye remained as caskets were bourne outside for transport to their final rest in the Bohemian National Cemetery.
The Eastland disaster claimed 844 lives. It was the worst disaster in Chicago History.
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