THE people

Blanka Jelinek

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

STATUS: 
Victim
DATE OF Birth:
City of Birth:
Year OF DEATH:
1915
City of Death:
Chicago,
 IL,
  Cook County,
 United States
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
MAIDEN NAME:
ETHNICITY:
Bohemian
KNOWN ADDRESS:
RELATED TO:

At the time of the tragedy.

AGE:
18
MARITAL STATUS:
Single
ROLE:
passenger

other information

CEMETERY:
Bohemian National
OTHER NOTES:

...set out with their picnic baskets...

Blanka Jelinek set out with her picnic basket with the Zobac family on the morning of July 24, 1915.

Edward Zobac and his brother Joseph worked at Western Electric's Hawthorne Works. Edward was a machinist earning roughly $0.25 per hour.

While Joe decided to use the day off from work to do some painting on his parents' home, Edward, his wife Anna, and her sister Blanka boarded a street car and headed downtown. The Eastland Disaster soon would claim the lives of Blanka, Edward, and Anna.

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