31 JULY 1915, Page 3

The daily casualty lists overshadow most accidents and calamities unconnected

with the war, but a word of sympathy is due to the United States for the heavy loss of life suffered in the Chicago river disaster on Saturday last. The excursion steamer 'Eastland,' with two thousand five hundred persons on board, and her cabins crowded with women and children, capsized suddenly and upwards of a thousand lives were lost.