William Van Schaick, captain of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat" id="mwjQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Steamboat">steamship</a> <a about="#mwt82" data-mw='{"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"PS","href":"./Template:PS"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"General Slocum"},"2":{"wt":""},"3":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS_General_Slocum" id="mwjg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="PS General Slocum" typeof="mw:Transclusion"><i>General Slocum</i></a> which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Howard Taft">William Howard Taft</a> after <style about="#mwt83" data-mw='{"name":"templatestyles","attrs":{"src":"Fraction/styles.css"},"parts":[{"template":{"target":{"wt":"frac","href":"./Template:Frac"},"params":{"1":{"wt":"3"},"2":{"wt":"1"},"3":{"wt":"2"}},"i":0}}]}' data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027" id="mwkA" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles mw:Transclusion">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style><span about="#mwt83" class="frac" id="mwkQ">3<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">1</span><span typeof="mw:Entity">⁄</span><span class="den">2</span></span> years in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_Sing" id="mwkg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sing Sing">Sing Sing</a> prison.