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The explosion of the steamboat H R. W. Hill was of a remarkable character. The pressure ef steam carried was 120 Ibs. The boiler head was forced out from the upper part and doubled over at the ...

Holly Messinger, the textiles conservator at The Arabia Steamboat Museum, carefully laid out the pieces of a frock coat, an 1850’s relic recovered from the bottom of the Missouri River.