The passenger ship <a about="#mwt21" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"SS","href":"./Template:SS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"Eastland"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Eastland" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="SS Eastland" typeof="mw:Transclusion">SS<span typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><i>Eastland</i></a> capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Lakes">Great Lakes</a>.