General Slocum: No Longer Forgotten

I do not know where you live but I was at Titanik exhibition today (in NYC) and there was some info about general slocum too. I saw such exhibition in Berlin last year too.

can someone please tell me where i can find books movies anything like that about this ship u see i study tragedies like these

The only books I'm awhare of that have been written about the Slocum Disaster are Ship Ablaze, Darkest Hours, and Fire on the River. I would also recomoned reading the chapter deveoted to the Slocum in Sea Hunters II, which describes the hunt fro the Slocum's wreck (She sank after being converted into a barge named Maryland) The disaster was also featured in the documentary My Father's Gun, there is also a documentary from Germany, which was made in 1998 called the Slocum's On Fire.

President Roosevelt called his Attorney General the day after. & gave him instructions, to find out who was responsible & put them away fast. The AG told the president it was out of his constitutional powers to interfere with the NY AG's office. Roosevelt said "I don't care. make this happen."
In an interseting side note. The NY times reported witness's claimed to have seen 100s of shadows of the dead walking the island, along the bank of the East River for weeks after the disaster

The loss of life was made even worse by life jackets that were either rotted to the point they were useless or weighted down with iron rods to meet the absolute minimum safety requirement, fire hoses that were rotted and hadn't been replaced since the ship was launched and life boats that were fused to the boat deck by rusted wires.
The Slocum had a reputation as an unlucky ship, through out her career she had run a grounded, had two collisions, and a riot that turned into a near mutiny.

Thank you for that information, although in knew most of that.
Do you know of any great websites to which i may find information regarding the passengers? I find it rather difficult to get proper ages/names to victims and nearly impossible to get a direct list of survivors.

Most websites are more concerned with the fire and the events leading up to and surrounding the aftermath. Because the Slocum was a excerson steamer, she didn't have a passenger list, the best area to find a survivors list would be in newspapers from June 1904-1905

Ah, i see. I have read a few papers that do list off some survivors, but i do find it rather hard to find much.
I did'nt know they never marked down passengers on excursion ships.
Do you know of a "victims list"?
I have about 300-350 names, including around 175 children under twelve, but i know there was around a thousand victims, with around 500 being children.

the History Channel had a one hour documentary in this the other day, you should go to their website