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William H vanderbelt
he made a fortune on his company he was in the railroad company he died on dec 8 1885 he was born on may 8 1821 -
andrew carnigie
he was a big part in the steel company he owned carnigie steel company he helped make iron railroads and more he died on august 11 1919 -
John D Rockefeller
he was a entrupernewer in the oil company he became a millioner off of his company he anded up being tha first billioner his company was calledhe died on may 23 1937 -
great fire of chicago
the fire went on for more than 24 hours it killed over 300 people which meant 1/3 of the popultion was homeless some people think the fire started from a barn owned by patrick and catherine oleary it was 4 miles long and 1 mile wide 17,500 building were gone and 73 miles of land -
Johnstown Flood
this killed 2209 it dystroyed 1600 buildings it was a friday it happened because the water supply dam broke and left a lot of people dead -
McKinley Assassination
it was on september 14 1901 he got shot by Leon Czolgosz the person who shot him thought he was an oppressive figure. he had problems when he got shot and thats how he died -
Great San Francisco Earth Quake
this happened on April 18 1906 it was at 5:05 am so most people were asleep this killed 3,000 people and 250,000 people were left homeless and 28,000 buildings were gone -
traiangle shirtwaist company fire
this fire killed 146 people they had lots of sucurity which was only one door being able to open and the doors opening inward and people crowding the door trying to get out people tried suing elevators but it couldnt take down that many people at a time they also only had elevators this invention helped by makeing doors open outward the firehose to reach higher than 7 stories and having stairs and elevators -
sinking of the titanic
the titanic was a luxery cruise ship with about 1500 people on it they didn't have enough life boats and it was also early in the morning so not a lot of people wanted to some out it was April 15, 1912 when it happened -
Theodore Roosevelt
he was the 26th president he served from 1901 to 1909 before that he worked for politics he also served as the 33rd govonerfor 2 year he died on january 6 1919