The story
Boarded General Slocum with her mother and three sisters Anna (10) Eva (8) Cecilia (3) for an Evangelist Church picnic. A few minutes later the Slocum was in flames. The passengers risked drowning in the river or being trapped in the burning steamboat.
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1 tribute has been left in memory of Julia Heckert.
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God bless you, dear Julia. Horrible for a baby to face that alone with a child. :'(
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