111 years later, S.S. Eastland disaster victims remembered

Holding a black-and-white photo of his great aunt, Scott Long leaned over the Chicago Riverwalk railing and scattered a handful of flowers into the river, honoring a life the S.S. Eastland disaster claimed 111 years ago Friday. Long, 62, took a photograph of the portrait of his great aunt, Mabel Deichmann, held against the backdrop of the river where she died on July 24, 1915. Deichmann was 21 when the Eastland, a passenger steamship, rolled onto its side while docked along the Chicago River,…