The steamer H.R.W. Hill, bound from Memphis to New-Orleans, exploded on Wednesday night. Thirty persons were killed, and forty to fifty scalded. Advertisement ...

In the month of October last a steam boiler exploded ... of some terrible steamboat disaster on the western rivers or on the lakes. Indeed, I remember of three most direful explosions having ...

In compliance with the request of a number of gentlemen who desire that a thorough investigation shall be made into the boiler explosion on board the North River steamboat Arrow, on the evening of ...

A century and a half ago, boiler explosions aboard steamboats ... an estimated 7,000 people died in steamboat explosions. Even the federal regulatory efforts didn’t stop the explosions.

An all-caps headline to describe the boiler explosion aboard the Shirley Bell in Sept. 1878. Photo from the Warren Ledger “The town was thrown into a great excitement.” Yes, I assume a ship sinking in ...

As the Canadian paddle-wheel steamer Comet was pulling away from the Customs House dock in Oswego at 3 p.m. on April 21, 1851 ...

Boiler explosions, collisions, fires, sandbars and submerged logs all conspired to sink vessels, often with shockingly large casualty lists. The first steamboat to pass Cape was the Zebulon Pike ...

On Tuesday, State Fire Marshal Chambers said a gas line was severed when the boiler had a small explosion. UNR has two boilers, switching off if one is being serviced. Paterson said the boilers ...