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 ...

a boiler of the Mississippi steamer H.R.W. Hill exploded ... a little over a week ago, a boiler explosion occurred at Lee, and another at Lowell; and the day before there was another at New ...

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 ...

The middle boiler had a lack of water ... Island’s beloved Island Queen. The first steamboat was lost to fire in 1922. The second to an explosion touched off by a welding torch in 1947; 19 ...

The steamboat: Sultana was a “mammoth looking ... “The biggest danger facing steamboats was boiler explosion,” according to “A History of Steamboats,” published by the U.S. Army ...

FRANKLIN, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - One person died Wednesday in a power plant boiler explosion on Wednesday morning, authorities said. The incident occurred at 8 a.m. during the commissioning of a ...

KOCHI: One worker died and four others suffered grievous burn injuries in a massive steam boiler explosion at an eatery in Kaloor, Kochi, on Thursday evening. The deceased has been identified as ...