This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28075 Message Board Post: SMITH, Edward, 68 years, a waiter, of 228 West Twenty-eighth street, is listed among the dead on The General Slocum, a steamship that burned in the East River in New York City on June 15, 1904. I am not related to this family, just passing on this information, which comes from a website called "List of General Slocum victims" The link for the site is listed below. Joyce http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/List_of_General_Slocum_victims