Disaster at the Bar Harbor Ferry

<P>“Sunday August 6 1899 is a date that for many years will be held in memory as signalizing the most dreadful accident that has ever occurred within the boundaries of the state of Maine.”</P><P>Bangor Daily Commercial August 7 1899</P><P></P><P>In an era when the only means of travel to the new glamorous and growing resort of Bar Harbor was through a small isolated rural-yet-elegant point of land on the mainland in the small town of Hancock Disaster at Mount Desert Ferry tells the true story of what was at the time Maine’s deadliest disaster. The heartbreaking tale starts with the arrival of a train overcrowded with passengers anxious to be among the first to cross the bay and their rush for a ferry with too few seats turning a casual summer Sunday outing into a scene of chaos tragedy death and heroism occurring as quickly as the break of a wooden gangplank. Disaster at Mount Desert Ferry tells not only the complete story of the people and the events of that day but of a time and way of life long gone by and nearly forgotten.</P><P></P><P></P>