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 ...

The boiler of the steam-tug A.S. Field ... There were upon the tug at the time of the explosion seven persons, viz.: the mate, REMO DUMONT, well-known as once the captain of the schooner Monteagle ...